Similia Vol 22 No 2 – December 2010

Author:  Christel Lombaerts

Abstract

In the last decades, a number of excellent homeopaths have contributed to different aspects in classical homeopathy and grouped followers into  ‘schools of thought’: the Greek School, the South-American School, the Bombay School, to name but three. Homeopaths tend to shop around and eventually stay with the method or learning that suits them best. On the one hand, this is fine as those who developed these methods and learning in the first place more often than not teach homeopathy in private schools. On the other hand however, these are rich pickings for the sceptics who don’t hesitate to voice their scorn at homeopathy. How can a discipline be taken seriously when even the experts themselves are apparently largely  differing on a number of essential aspects of their profession?