Part Two: Homeopathy at the Crossroads
In recent decades homeopathy, a profound medical science and art founded more than 200 years ago, has come closer to scientific validation and cultural acceptance. We now have intriguing images of complex nanostructures in remedy solutions,1 hundreds of millions of people worldwide trust and rely on homeopathic medicine,2 North American states and provinces have begun to regulate and license practitioners.3 At the same time, fractures within the homeopathic community have branched and deepened. Alternative methods of using the remedies have proliferated, some with unabashedly subjective theoretical constructs behind them; there are popular practitioners (including some with virtually no training) who jubilantly proclaim they are liberating homeopathy from the constraints of reason and evidence. Others, witnessing the momentum of these trends, see the seeds of self-destruction germinating in this uniquely promising field. It is increasingly urgent that we pause and look discerningly at the landscape we find ourselves in today. Can we find a way forward that is open-minded, yet coherent and decisive enough to halt the current disintegration of homeopathic practice?










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