Homeopathy

“it presumed to follow nature, the natural world not constructed on the basis of perennial tensions between opposites locked in constant battle, but one in which similars could interfere, inhibit, or even cancel each other out. Moreover, homeopathy also viewed the human organism as indivisible, reacting as a whole through the total sum of clinical symptoms and signs. Likewise, health remained a dynamic balance ever to be maintained or restored. Patient uniqueness was an expression of individual constitution and susceptibility.. . . . Homeopathic patients were treated as individuals, not just merely viewed as examples of known diseases. Their complaints were to be carefully elicited, and special treatment plans were provided on the basis of unique symptomatic combinations” (Risse, 61).