Hahnemann: Samuel

Elder is also used therapeutically as a homeopathic medicine. It was introduced by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in 1819. The Sambucus ebulus or S. nigra species is most often used. However, it is not one of the more widely used homeopathic medicines. As a homeopathic remedy, elder is known as sambucus. Some of the indications for sambucus include albuminuria (the presence of protein in the urine), angina pectoris, asthma, dizziness and headache upon arising, dry larynx and lumbago. 

Hahnemann, Dr. Samuel, Materia Medica Pura, B. Jain Publishers, New Dehli, India, 1989. 

Homoeopathy is a system of medicine founded by Samuel Hahnemann (German physician 1755-1843) and expounded by him in the Organon of the rational art of healing. Hahnemann described his position ... 

Homeopathya system of medicine founded by Samuel Hahnemann, which has two main theoretical tenets (1) like cures like (the law of similars) and (2) the more dilute (potentized) the remedy, the more powerful it becomes. 

Homeopathy s founder, Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. (1775—1843), is said to have based his theory on an experience in which he ingested cinchona bark, the source of quinine used to treat malaria. After taking it, he experienced thirst, throbbing in the head, and fever—symptoms common to malaria. He decided that the drug s power to cure the disease arose from its ability to produce symptoms similar to the disease itself. He and his early followers then conducted provings in which they administered herbs, minerals, and other substances to healthy people, including themselves, and kept detailed records of what they observed. 

A Treatise on the Materia Medica, 2 vols. 4, Edinburgh, 1789 J. Thomson, 1859, i, 141, 611 ii, 523-64 it was tr. into French, German (by Samuel Hahnemann) and Italian. Cullen s works were collected and published, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1827. 

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