If he uses single remedies to treat the totality and then prescribes remedies allopathically "because we're living in more complex times" (which, by the way, is utter nonsense...all you have to do is read a history book, for pete's sake), then he's no classical homeopath. He sounds like a naturopath with a smattering of training in homeopathy--and more likely, a practitioner of naturopathy plagued by an aggressive polypharmacy salesman who visits now and again to push the more expensively packaged "combos" on his practice. That's all well and good, but it is not homeopathy, and should not be labelled homeopathy.

Classical homeopathic methods are cut and dry, spelled out in black and white in the Organon. Hahnemann worked on that medical textbook for 50 years, revising it at least 6 times during the course of a lifetime of applying and refining the methodology of homeopathy. One thing is clear:

You do not prescribe allopathically.

Another thing Hahnemann made very clear: NEVER, ever, ever, is it necessary to use a combination remedy. In any case. No matter what.Combination remedies are never put through provings, we don't know what they do in the body, therefore we have no idea how they could be employed "homeopathically" as we don't know what they would cause...hence we'd never know what they could cure. Simple and easy.

If its not spelled out in the Organon or in Hahnemann's well described method, its not homeopathy.

[ 31. March 2004, 15:08: Message edited by: Divina ]

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