The California Homeopath
Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

Classical Homœopathy as a discipline has many unusual or even extraordinary properties. As a science it has a deep and strict adherence to scientific principles yet it is regarded by conventional science as completely beyond the scientific pale. On the other hand, as an alternative practice it is regarded as too rigorous and prescriptive by many alternative practitioners. It has come about through the vision of one guru like figure yet it has been advanced by many more, often also guru like, figures. It has been more successful and more enduring than any other described system. Homœopathy has been so successful and opens up so many avenues of discovery and exploration that it has felt no need and possibly not had the time or the energy to explore its relationship to knowledge and understanding in a wider context. This is a pity for homœopaths, who have lost out on using their exceptional knowledge and skills in all the ways that they might have; but it is an even greater loss to the world in general for the skill and knowledge that homœopaths possess could change many aspects of understanding in the wider world.

It is undoubtedly worth looking at homœopathy not just as a medical modality but as a particular and successful form of knowledge and so learn from it how to make other forms more successful and more useful.

By Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser practices homeopathy in Bristol and London, England.  He is the author of many provings, working with the The School of Homeopathy, Devon and author of a number of books, including The AIDS Miasm, books on Snakes, Spiders and Insects and the series of Using Maps and Systems in Homœopathy, which includes: Miasms, Realms, Mappa Mundi and Philosophy. He is currently working on a Supplement to Clarke’s Dictionary of Materia Medica that extends it to cover many new homeopathic remedies. He is especially interested in the diseases of our times: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Allergic Reactions, Hyperactivity and Concentration Disorders, Auto-Immune Disease and HIV. Visit his website at http://www.homoeopathist.info/.