Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the founding father of homeopathy, created a text called The Organon of Medicine, in which he laid out what he felt were the aims of the homeopathic physician, as well as many other aspects pertaining to health and how he felt health could be restored in the individual.
Aphorism two from that text details the aim of a homeopath in treating an individual:
'The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles.'
