FACTS ABOUT HOMEOPATHY Homeopathy is considered a school of medicine in the United States. It is covered by most medical practice acts. It was practiced almost exclusively by medical doctors to the 1980's. It is explicitly described by Samual Hanemann (founder) as a system of eradicating diseases by using drugs. Homeopathic remedies are considered drugs by law. Homeopathic remedies have been listed in the USP Pharmacopia since the 1930's and are approved by the FDA. There are no known or suspsected contraindication or drug interactions between homeopathic and conventional medicines. 200 years of clinical experience along with research published in such journals as The Lancet, Pediatrics, and the British Medical Journal have confirmed homeopathy's effectiveness. There have been homeopathic practitioners since 1812. Homeopathic remedies are made from plant, animal and mineral extracts and are diluted in varying degrees in order to avoid unpleasant side effects. Clinical experience has shown that the greater the dilution of a remedy, the more effectively it works. The basis of Homeopathy is the Law of Similars which means "let likes be cured with like," which means that anything that is capable of producing symptoms in a well person can cure those same symptoms in a sick person. Proving is the name given to the homeopathic method of testing substances in order to produce symptom pictures that would match the remedy to the patient. Homeopathy works by strengthening the body's vitality and its ability to respond to stress without recourse to other medicines. Dr. Samual Hahnemann, who formulated the homeopathic field of medicine in the 1800's stated The highest ideal of therapy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently; to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles."  (Source:  The Organon, by Samuel Hahnemann).