Homoeopathy is a medical system that was developed in Germany more than 200 years ago.

This form of medicine was first developed and described by German physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann in 1796 amidst the orthodox practices of his time.

When Hahnemann first named the discipline in 1807, mainstream medicine involved ineffective practices such as bloodletting and purging. 

It is based on two unconventional theories-

"Like cures like" - the notion that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people.

"Law of minimum dose"- the notion that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness. Many homoeopathic products are so diluted that no molecules of their original substance remain.

The basic principle of homoeopathy is that a substance that triggers a certain disease can also be used to treat that disease. This is referred to as the "law of similars". As well as the "like cures like" principle.

Homoeopathy also believe that sharing and diluting the substance increase its potency - a process referred to as potentization or succussion. 

Practitioners of homoeopathy believe that the suppression of disease is what essentially leads to the internal organs becoming diseased. They maintain that all disease has an underlying chronic, deep - seated and inherited cause that cannot be effectively treated by opposing the symptoms. Homoeopaths believe that the miasm would still remain and that the only way to correct a deep - seated illness is to eliminate the disturbance being caused by a vital force.