Homeopathy is a medical subspecialty that was first discovered and extensively verified nearly a quarter of a millennium ago in Germany. From there, it spread around the globe, including the Americas, but it faded from the North American medical scene after the founding of the AMA, whose expressed organizational opposition led to the industry funded 1910 Flexner report, rating homeopathic medical education as inferior to pharmaceutical-based medical curricula, and putting an end to any future funding.1
Homeopathy’s founder, Samuel Christian Hahnemann – a polymath physician, pioneered its use through direct human observation and clinical trials. He was the first to test drugs on healthy human subjects before recommending their use in the sick, and he demanded an unprecedented reliance on evidence from clinical experience. His meticulous work foreshadowed many of the discoveries of the modern medical era including the importance of individualized care, the nature of the immune system, homeostasis, and most recently, the presence, importance, and function of the human microbiome.
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