- What homeopathy is not
- What is homeopathy?
- How does homeopathy work?
- What is a homeopathic remedy?
- Is there any research that shows homeopathy to be effective?
- What happens during the initial visit to a homeopathic physician?
- Can I continue taking prescription drugs while under homeopathic treatment?
- Which diseases can be treated with homeopathy?
- Can a pregnant woman or a newborn baby benefit from homeopathy?
- How does homeopathy deal with patients affected with problems resulting from emotional trauma, severe grief or the consequence of mood disorders such as anger, depression or anxiety?
- Which conditions are outside the scope of homeopathy?
- Homeopathy: past, present, and future
11. How does homeopathy address patients with infectious diseases?
Homeopathic treatment is the ideal treatment to optimize the body’s natural defenses against microbes. With the appropriate
homeopathic treatment, people recover from even the most serious infectious diseases, gently and rapidly. During the past
great epidemics such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera, yellow fever, malaria, homeopathy decreased mortality
by 10 to 30 times versus conventional medicine. During the infamous Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19, it has been estimated
that 25 to 50 million people died world wide under conventional medical treatment. In the United States alone, 550,000 died,
approximately 10% of the people afflicted with the flu. Homeopathic physicians at that time documented more than 62,000
patients treated with homeopathy resulting in a mortality of 0.7%. For people who were sick enough to be hospitalized,
conventional medicine had a mortality of 30%, while with 27,000 documented hospital cases, homeopathy was reporting a
mortality of 1.05% (Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 1921; 13:1028-1043).