The Modern Case for Homeopathy
Most are skeptical of this centuries old medical discipline, but advancements in modern research may vindicate homeopathy.
Since becoming disenchanted with allopathic medicine, I’ve spent more of my time trying to understand different ways of conceptualizing the human body, health and disease.
To be quite honest, I have yet to encounter a long-standing discipline of medicine that I could dismiss outright as nonsense or pseudoscience. This includes Tibetan, Islamic, Medieval, Chinese, Chiropractic, and now…Homeopathic medicine.
All of these disciplines have extremely useful ways of conceptualizing body physiology, illness and treatment.
I am sure they have their short-comings, but which discipline does not?
When it came to homeopathy, there was one thing I could not get past.
You see, homeopathy is quite a robust practice from a diagnostic perspective. But, the treatments are difficult to justify for the classically educated scientific mind.
Now, I am far less skeptical.
Let me explain.
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is an 18th-century medical discipline formalized by Samuel Hahnemann in his seminal work The Organon of the Healing Art published in 1810. In subsequent editions, he changed the title to The Organon of Medicine.
As far as I can tell, Hahnemann was an exceptionally well-read and thoughtful physician. Trained in classical allopathic medicine, he soon found it lacking. Fortunately for us, Hahnemann was fluent in several languages (like many medical scholars of history) which allowed him to explore texts both ancient & contemporary.
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