In the 1790's he founded a system of medicine based on the principles that a drug that can create symptoms in a healthy human being when administered in large amounts can cure the same symptoms when given in smaller amounts to the sick. In fact the very word comes from Greek origin. Hence the term homeopathy, defined as treatment of ill persons with substances that will actually produce similar symptoms when given to a healthy individual.
Illness is our bodies response to a stress or a stressor.
The stress can come from, show up or manifest in, the physcial, mental, emotional, or spiritual areas of our existence, and many times in combinations. These are the planes of human existance. The body's natural defense system responds to an illness by producing what we call symptoms. It is important to note that these symptoms are the expression of the body's natural defenses and outward signs that our defense system is functioning. For example, a cough is the body's response to the perception that mucous needs to be cleared out of the throat or respiratory tract.