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Homeopathic Materia Medica are encyclopedia of materials which may be used to prepare homeopathic medicines. They list the materials along with details of the provings which establish the symptoms and conditions for which they are claimed to be suitable. They thus constitute a homeopathic prescribing reference guide and are often used along with the Homeopathic repertory. Samuel Hahnemann started the practise of homeopathy while translating the botanical Materia Medica of the Scottish physician William Cullen from English into German in 1790. Twenty pages in that work are devoted to Peruvian chinchona bark which is used to prepare the medicine quinine. This substance produces fever-like symptoms while being used to cure intermittent fever or ague and this led Hahnemann to conceive the ''principle of similars'': that like may cure like. He went on to develop the ''materia medica'' along these homeopathic lines and others then continued this work to produce great volumes of potential ingredients. Although there are various homeopathic Materia Medica, written by different authors and covering different specialities, the term ''Homeopathic Materia Medica'' is often used to reference the total sum of homeopathic preparations and prescribing options. Hahnemann developed the first Homeopathic Materia Medica by a system of homeopathic provings, where a substance was ingested by the "prover" and the symptoms that the "prover" developed were recorded in great detail. Materia Medica may also include accidental poisoning and some information from clinical treatment. == Sources of Homeopathic Materia Medica == Drug proving is the basic source of Materia Medica through which, drugs who have found a place in Materia Medica are known of their symptomatology and new drugs are known of their symptomatology, Physical and Mental presentation. Drug proving is carried out by the methods described by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in his Organon of Medicine in § 105 to §145. The other sources of Homeopathic Materia Medica are as follows: - # Noting of signs and symptoms which occur because of Drug Overdose of medicines. # Noting of signs and symptoms which occur in Poisoning in a person. # Noting of signs and symptoms which occur after administering the medicines in sick people and following the appearance of Side Effects. # The books written by the pioneers of Homeopathy have been the base for the further works on the subject. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homeopathic Materia Medica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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