The Interface Between Homeopathic and Conventional Medicine

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The Interface Between Homeopathic and Conventional Medicine
Writings by Dana Ullman, MPH © 1996


At what point should a clinician consider using only homeopathic medicines?

At what point should a clinician not consider
homeopathic medicines and use only conventional therapeutics?

And at what point should a clinician consider
using both homeopathic and conventional medicines?

Conclusions
These are all critical questions that will be
increasingly asked as growing numbers of health
professionals incorporate homeopathic medicines
into their practice. The answers to these
questions will not be hard and fast, for each
sick person brings his or her own unique illness
to the clinic, and each sick person has his or
her own desires for how relief or cure should be obtained.

In addition to what the sick person brings to the
therapeutic encounter, each practitioner brings
his or her own values, knowledge, competence in
homeopathy, and competence in conventional therapeutics to the situation.

And both patient and practitioner bring the
various fears, anxieties, and emotional baggage
to the relationship. If the patient or someone
close to him or her recently had a bad experience
with a conventional physician or with a
homeopath, then this experience will affect their
feelings about the type of treatment that is
preferred. Similarly, if the practitioner
recently experienced a malpractice suit, he or
she may be more cautious in recommending
alternatives or conventional therapeutics,
whichever seemed to initiate the lawsuit.

In other words, this article will not provide
easy or quick answers to the above questions.

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