Abstract
Homoeopathy has developed in many different ways over the last 200 years. Next to what is known as “classical homoeopathy” another approach was already established in Samuel Hahnemann’s (1755–1843) lifetime. This method experimented with and used double remedies and, in doing so, went against Hahnemann’s fundamental principle of single remedy treatment. The homoeopathic double remedy can be said to have originated in 1831/32 which indicates that the history of the homoeopathic drug mixtures is almost as old as that of homoeopathy itself.
Since the beginning of the 1990s there has been a differentiation between “complex remedies” (naturally occurring compounds) and “combination remedies” (manmade mixtures). This differentiation is not relevant to the purpose of this historical documentation. Weingärtner (2007), p. 39 and id. (2006), p. 4.
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Blessing, B. (2011). The Development of Complex Homoeopathy from the 19th Century to the End of the Weimar Republic. In: Pathways of Homoeopathic Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14971-9_1
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