Homeopathy 2019; 108(04): 230-231
Guest Editorial
The Brilliance of Homeopathic Medicine
Susanne Saltzman
Former Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine (Official Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy)
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"Yet homeopathy may always be practiced by a minority of physicians because it takes courage to practice outside the standard of care and an open mind to think outside the conventional box."
"Conventional or allopathic medicine is based on a scientific model that assumes that reality exists objectively, independent of the observer."
"Homeopathy, on the other hand, is a phenomenological science—the study of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. Hahnemann found that the subjective experienced symptoms of an individual were, in fact, more important in the selection of the homeopathic medicine than measurable or observable ones."
"There is no law of therapeutics that exists for conventional medicine: it is reductionist science, whereby treatment is based on a set of assumptions such as the germ theory or genetic theory—theories that change over time as new information about the nature of health and disease is discovered. Drugs are constantly being developed, removed and replaced as new information becomes available and side effects become known, unfortunately to the detriment of many."
"Homeopathy is a purely descriptive science, not a theoretical one. In homeopathy, provings (experiments) are done[5] and the person's subjective mental, emotional, and physical symptoms are recorded. Every aspect of a patient's life experience is explored and recorded. The patient's direct experience of his or her disease must correspond with the direct experience of the provers. This is the Law of Similars that Hahnemann so brilliantly unearthed. There is no theory interposed between the direct experience of a patient's disease and the direct experience of the provers."
"The system of homeopathic medicine is absolutely brilliant in its simplicity and powerfully effective in the execution of its principles. These principles are still in use today because they have withstood the clinical test of time. And, unlike the abysmal safety record of allopathic medicine,[6] homeopathy has an impressive 200-year safety record."
"Millions of satisfied patients globally are a continual testimony to Hahnemann's genius."
