Hahnemann was curious to why Cinchona bark, China officianalis, treated Malaria. Cinchona bark is high in quinine and we still use pharmaceutical Quinine today and it is synthesized to the drug "Qualaquin" still used today to treat malaria and other conditions.

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A disease name that defines the remedy choice.

Yes, there are remedies that have special affinity for certain common diseases which is why you can Google a disease like strep throat and see a short list of remedies that are common to that disease.

The clear and unique changes in the patient from their natural health to ill health. In other words their symptoms.

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Hahnemann (1755-1843) had already led a full career as a physician, researcher and educator prior to his developing Homeopathy.

"My sense of duty would not easily allow me to treat the unknown pathological state of my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines. The thought of becoming in this way a murderer or malefactor towards the life of my fellow human beings was most terrible to me, so terrible and disturbing that I wholly gave up my practice in the first years of my married life and occupied myself solely with chemistry and writing." …Hahnemann 1782

He called it homeopathy, by uniting two Greek roots,

homoios meaning "similar," and

pathos meaning "what one feels."

Homeopathy consists of treating sick people with medicines which, in crude (larger) doses, are capable of producing in healthy people symptoms that are similar (homoios), and even stronger, to those of the disease a person is suffering (pathos).

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