The Case for Homeopathy - Overview
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The ability to understand a patient's illness and prescribe an appropriate treatment using the homeopathic method requires special skill. This has led to a view that homeopathy is a speciality. Indeed, patients are referred to doctors with this skill for homeopathic treatment.

However, homeopathy as a therapeutic method has more in common with the "generalisms" than the "specialisms". The specialisms tend to relate to a single body system or an area of the body; for example, dermatology, rheumatalogy, neurology and so on. General practice, general surgery and general medicine, on the other hand, tend to have much wider and overlapping remits.

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Health care managers and GPs will often ask for "referral guidelines", including information on what kinds of problems homeopathy can treat. Some homeopaths have responded to this by drawing up lists of clinical conditions which they feel they have some potential to treat, and, further, have even drawn up lists headed: "Do not refer the following". Unfortunately, there is no consensus within homeopathy about which conditions should be on which lists.

One possible response is to help the enquirer to understand the generalist nature of homeopathy, which treats individuals with a particular, or special, approach.

Another possible response is to explain that as homeopathy works by aiding the body's own recuperative powers, it will be unsuccessful in treating conditions which the body cannot reverse.

It may be helpful to think of broad areas where homeopathy may be helpful. The following lists are divided into five groups. The conditions in each group are examples only - not an exhaustive list:



Conditions for which we have relatively ineffective allopathic treatments
Allergies
Anal fissures
Bruises
Chilblains
Colic
Fear/phobias
Glandular fever
Grief
Impotence
Influenza
Intermittent claudication
Mastalgia
M.E.
Nightmares/night terrors
Pathological anger
Premenstrual syndrome
Teething
Urethral syndrome
Warts

B A C K to list.

Patient groups or situations where it is potentially unsafe to use allopathic treatments
Pregnant women
Young children
Older people
Anticipatory anxiety

B A C K to list.

Situations where the side-effect profile of the allopathic remedies can be unacceptable
Anxiety
Depression
Night cramps
Osteoarthritis

B A C K to list.

Conditions in which homeopathy is used primarily in a complementary way to achieve reductions in long-term allopathic treatment
Asthma
Constipation
Convulsions
Dysmenorrhoea
Eczema
Migraine
Neuralgias
Otitis media (recurrent)

B A C K to list.

Conditions in which homeopathy is wholly complementary with the aims of reducing specific symptoms or improving wellbeing
Malignancy
Parkinson's disease

B A C K


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