Facts About Homeopathy

• Since its discovery, none of the homeopathic medicines are recalled, as like in other system of medicine.

• The system was propounded by a German physician Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann

• Homeopathy can be defined as a “dynamic, holistic and vitalistic system of individualistic drug therapeutics, based on the law of similars, potentially capable to cure diseases that are curable and relieves symptoms of incurable nature”. ~NHP-GoI

• Because of potential public health benefits associated with the use of homeopathy, further research on this modality and targeted studies of users are warranted. “The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Centre, the National Institutes of Health- Harvard University.

• The use of homoeopathy is steadily growing in India and as per an analysis by Ministry of AYUSH, this sector exhibited an annual growth rate of 26.3% in the past year, the highest among the other AYUSH modalities

• India leads in terms of number of people using homeopathy, with 100 million people depending solely on homeopathy for their medical care.

• More than 100 million people depend solely on this form of therapy for their health care, the popularity of the dilute remedies shows no signs of abating. ~SPECIAL REPORT- The LANCET

• Worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis with legal recognition as an individual system of medicine in more than 42 countries.