He was basically an allopathic doctor who has left the practise because of side effects and temporary relief of symptoms of allopathy.For his bread and butter he started translating the medical books to different languages.While he was translating cullen's materia medica he came across a herbal medicine called cinchona.It was written that cinchona can cure malaria and it can also produce symptoms similar to malaria on healthy individuals.This point clicked hahnemann's brain and he prepared an extract of cinchona bark and taken himself.To his surprise he developed some symptoms of malaria like chills and achings.He started doing the same experiment on different individuals and the result was the same.
By this experiment hahnemann came to know that any drug which can produce a set of symptoms on a healthy humanbeing can be used to cure the similar symptoms in a diseased person.He gave cinchona to various malaria patients and the result was wonderful and a system called homoeopathy originated.The word homoeo means similar,pathy means suffering.The basic principle of homoeopathy is 'similia similibus curantur' means like cures cure.Hahnemann prepared some other drugs using alcohol as a vehicle and started experimenting on different age groups and noted down the symptoms produced in them.He proved nearly 30 drugs and the symptoms produced were noted down systematically.The symptoms collected by drug proving were categorised in the order in a book form named materia medica pura.
Hahnemann noticed that by diluting the crude drug substences in spirit a dynamic power is developed and is responsible for producing the symptoms on healthy people.Hahnemann started giving treatement to somany diseased persons with the medicines prepared by him on applying the principle similia similibus curantur and got wonderful cures and homoeopathy started spreading all over the world.
He gave medicines to some patients and noticed that symptoms are coming back again.So he understood that the cause for the disease should be treated .After doing experiments and observations he came to know that diseases are actually caused by some dynamic forces and he named them as miasms.[psora ,syphilis,sycosis] He noticed that to cure a person completely these miasms should be eradicated using a similar dynamic force.This idea lead to antimiasmatic drugs which are drugs having disease producing power similar to miasms.He developed anti miasmatic drugs and experimented on diseased persons and got wonderful cures.
Developement of homoeopathy
The principles of homoeopathy was written in book form and he named it organon of medicine.Lateron he started publishing these works and six editions of organon were published.Right from the beginning of homoeopathy somany doctors of other system started working against homoeopathy.But those who were against homoeopathy lateron came to know the truth behind homoeopathy and started practising the same.Physicians like Dr J T Kent,Dr Hering,Dr Boenonghausen ect followed Dr hahnemann's mission and developed the system.They all started preparing somany other drugs on the basis of guidlines given by Hahnemann.Physicians came to know that by diluting the drug substance in spirit in a systematic way the medicinal power is increasing eventhough the quantity of drug decreases.Since diseases are due to dynamic causes the medicine also should be dynamic.By a process called potentisation same drug in different levels of potencies were made.They found that by increasing the potency the penetrating power of medicine is increased so that it act on a higher level than the usual material form of drugs used in other systems.This unique nature of homoeopathic medicine is the reason for the wonderful cures of even the mental diseases.
The History of hostas begins in Japan. Hosta is a known as giboshi in its country of origin but it is also sometimes spelt as giboushi in some regions. Hostas grow rampant and wild in Japan. Although the plant is also native to Korea and China it is in Japan that you will find the most varieties. Most hostas are descended from two smallish varieties that originate in Japan. One is Oba Giboshi, which describes hostas with ripple leaves and green centers. It is known as H. Montana in western cultures. The other is Ohatsuki Giboshi, which features green centers with cream-colored edges. This is the variegated version of hosta that most of us know as variegated hostas today.
Hostas have only really become popular in the last twenty years. However there were some landmark events in the plants history that are notable.
In the 1940s a nursery called Savory Garden that was run by Bob and Arlene Savory in Britain perfected the yellow gold varieties. These hybrids were more sun loving and included varieties like the bright yellow Lemon Lime and Golden Tiara.
In the early sixties a British gardener named Eric Smith managed to create a number of hybrids that resulted in the powdery blue shade loving hostas that people love to collect today. These hostas are known as the Tardania Hybrids.
Hosta fanatic Eunice Fisher first established the American Hosta Society, which now boasts over 350,000 members in 1969. Eunice Fisher is also responsible for publishing of the first hosta book for gardeners and collectors, Hosta: The Aristocratic Plant for Shady Garden in 1969. Two more editions of this seminal book on hostas were published 1973, 1979.
In the late 1970s Mark Zilis and Walters Gardens developed the first hosta tissue culture lab. This led to two of the biggest companies in existence for hosta growth and distribution. That is Walters Gardens Inc. and Q and Z nurseries.
In the late seventies through to the late eighties Paul Aden and Klehm Nursery were also responsible for the wide spread popularity of hostas. The catalogues used to published hosta prices and pictures during this time helped distribute information from Eunice Fisher's book as well as name very popular hostas such as Sum and Substance and Great Expectations.
In the late seventies another gardener named Mildred Seaver perfected yet another type of blue variety of hosta which are often referred to as the Sea Series. The hosta Spilt Milk is a nice example of the best of her work. It is grey blue with a white speckled film. The passion for the blue hostas that Seaver created was spread further by the clever mail order marketing of Hatfield gardens which was a seminal company when it came to distributing blue hostas across North America.
Today hostas remain the #1 perennial in the United States. You can find them almost anywhere. From large Home Improvement stores to your Mom and Pop Garden Center. In the last few years many nurseries have decided to offer hostas online. Ebay, Daves Garden and hundreds of Hosta Business websites now offer beautiful hostas to the public!
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