Similimum
Similimum is a key term in classical homeopathy . Against the background of the thesis similia similibus curantur valid there , that is to say, for example, “similar things are cured with similar things”, it is part of homeopathic medication that a certain drug administered to a healthy person produces symptoms similar to those of the ailment in question.
In other words, this doctrine , also known as the "law of similars", claims that an active ingredient that produces symptoms of illness in healthy people heals or can cure these symptoms in sick people. The founder of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann stated in 1796: “Every effective medicine causes a kind of disease of its own in the human body. Imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease with another, and apply to the (especially chronic) disease to be cured that remedy which is capable of exciting another, as similar as possible, artificial disease and that will be cured; Similia similibus "
Trivia
The Similimum publishing house in Herbolzheim sells homeopathic literature and software.
Individual evidence
- ↑ similimum . In: The Free Dictionary . ( thefreedictionary.com [accessed June 21, 2020]).
- ↑ Samuel Hahnemann: Attempt on a new principle for finding the healing powers of medicinal substances along with some glimpses of the previous ones. 1796 Königslutter, Hufelands Journal BD. II)