by David Nortman | Homeopathic Philosophy, Introduction to Homeopathy
Classical homeopathy rests on a rich philosophical foundation first established by Hahnemann in his Organon of the Healing Art at the turn of the nineteenth century and refined over the past two centuries since. Homeopathy is rare among systems of medicine in...
by David Nortman | Homeopathic Philosophy, Introduction to Homeopathy
You already know or at least assume that homeopathy is ‘holistic’ just like other forms of alternative medicine. Homeopaths will consider all of the patient’s complaints in their diagnosis, will strive to make the patient better on the whole, and so on. This...
by David Nortman | Homeopathic Philosophy, Introduction to Homeopathy
In this article I will describe a basic aspect of homeopathy’s spiritual understanding of health and disease: the view that disease arises from a fixed adaptation to a past situation that no longer exists in the present. Homeopaths view health and disease as states of...
by David Nortman | Homeopathic Philosophy, Homeopathic Research, Introduction to Homeopathy
Classical homeopathy is first and foremost a clinical science concerned with the healing of living beings. As such its main concern is the practice of medicine, in contrast with conventional medicine where theoretical considerations (such as through what mechanism a...
by David Nortman | Homeopathic Philosophy, Introduction to Homeopathy, Naturopathic Medicine
The philosophical perspective on which the naturopathic clinical approach is based is that of vitalism. According to vitalist philosophy, living beings are not machines running according to strict cause-and-effect relations, but are beings whose existence is guided by...
by David Nortman | Introduction to Homeopathy, Naturopathic Medicine
Homeopathy is very often confused with other systems of alternative medicine. The first reason is that the term “homeopathy” is little-known and is often confused with other, similar-sounding terms. But underlying this linguistic confusion is the fact that most people...
