Homoeopathy is a holistic system of medicine, which aims to stimulate the body to heal itself. It is based on the principle ‘like cures like’. It was founded by a German doctor Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) in the late 18th century. The word ‘homoios’ means ‘like’ or ‘similar’ and ‘pathos’ means ‘suffering’ and so Homoeopathy is a ‘Medicine of likes’. It is a method of curing the sufferings in a diseased individual by administration of remedies that have the capacity to produce similar sufferings in a relatively healthy individual. Although Hahnemann discovered the law in the 18th century, the principle in fact dates back to the 4th century B.C., when Hippocrates and Paracelsus concluded by observing nature, that cure could be attained by the “Law of Similars”.