TREATMENT WITH “THE SIMILAR” AND TREATMENT WITH “THE OPPOSITE”: THE GERM OF A PERSONIFIED APPROACH IN ANCIENT MEDICINE

Authors

  • Buldakova Yu.R. A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
  • GOLOVIZNIN M.V. A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
  • LAKHONINA N.S. A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

Keywords:

Personalized medicine, homeopathy, Hippocrates, Pythagoreans, vaccination, immunology

Abstract

Personalized medicine, also called predictive, is a targeted medicine which focuses on the individual approach to a patient and his/her illness. Its implementation can actualize the principles of treatment which are close to the thesis of like cures like. Discussions on the belonging of homeopathy to “conventional” or to “unconventional” medicine are far from complete. The history of European medicine shows that certain ideas close to homeopathy are contained in the views of Paracelsus. The medicine of Ancient Greece also consisted of both an allopathic approach developed by Hippocrates and its followers, and a homeopathic one, probably coming from the Pythagoreans. Another source of homeopathic teaching was the practice of vaccination, which in the 18th century was interpreted from the vitalistic standpoint.

Author Biographies

  • Buldakova Yu.R., A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

    Academic degrees, membership in RAS and RAMS:

    • Ph.D. in Medicine (2009).

    Place of main work, position:

    • Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. A.I. Evdokimova.
  • GOLOVIZNIN M.V., A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

    Academic degrees, membership in RAS and RAMS:

    • Ph.D. (Medical Sciences).

    Place of main work, position:

    • Associate Professor of the Department of Internal Diseases, Faculty of Dentistry, Moscow State Medical University.
  • LAKHONINA N.S., A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

    Place of main work, position:

    • Assistant of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry.
    • Rheumatologist, therapist.

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Published

2021-02-18

Issue

2015 — No. 2 (10)

Section

PRACTICE / Articles