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The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), was confronted during his medical training in the eighteenth century with outdated paradigms which only by chance led to healing. Discontented with this state of affairs, he began to investigate new methods. With the help of remedy provings on healthy people, he was able to demonstrate which symptoms of an illness a specific remedy was able to heal. According to his insights, the task of the homeopath is to precisely describe the patient’s symptoms and to match these to the symptom spectrum of a specific remedy according to the law of similars. If this remedy is administered in the correct dose (diluted and potentized, to avoid toxic effects), and if possible impediments to cure are removed (§ 3, § 24)⁹, the remedy acts “if we may use the expression, with mathematical certainty” (MMP I, p. 17)¹⁰.

Although the fundamental tenets of homeopathy were clearly formulated, nowadays we find a plethora of ideas, often diverging greatly from one another, as to how to establish a match between the patient’s symptoms of illness and the symptom spectrum of the remedy. This plurality leads to considerable uncertainty within homeopathy. The polarity analysis presented here constitutes a return to the founding principles as well as the practical methods of the old homeopathic physicians, especially Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Hering, and Lippe. This is supplemented by new knowledge about the significance of polar symptoms, which can be effectively implemented using computer-assisted repertorisation, helping greatly to improve the reliability of the remedy choice.

This book describes all of the key building blocks essential to achieve improved results. I ask for your forbearance if certain self-evident aspects are stressed, although these should already be clear from the study of the Organon – they have frequently been forgotten during the development of many methods found today.