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KMID : 1001520150070010015
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Sungshin Journal of Health Science
2015 Volume.7 No. 1 p.15 ~ p.22
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Literature review of Homeopathy
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Song So-Ra
Im Young-Soon
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Abstract
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200 years ago, Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann systematized a therapy called homeopathy, which is based on Hippokrates’s Law of Similar.This therapy recitalizes patient’s healing power safely and gentlely, using a small amount of medicine. It uses natural objest that responses similarly to body’s desease symptoms based on human boday’s natural healing power. For quite a while, it rapidly declined. However recently, even though homeopathy’s effect caused many controversy, its’ market is increasing by 10 percent every year. Homeopathy’s basic principle is ‘like cures like’. Drug is made through special process called dynamic experience using natural object. And main characteristic is that using individualized treatment, treatment can be changed based on one’s characteristics. With aged society’s medical characteristics, chronic patiens are suffering from multiple factors. Treatable therapy should be approached with support from many research and ethical consideration.
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KEYWORD
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homeopathy, alternative medicine
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