Basically as i said, i agree, homeopathic medicines need to be investigated further.
As a young homeopath i feel the bigger victim than the odd person who uses homeopathy, i feel homeopaths are bombarded by reps from neutraceutical companies, often started or owned by medical physicians themselves (Solal brands for example), spend alot of money on education and products they believe will allow them to help people and build a career and are actually really misguided.
I agree pharmacy vitamin/health section is a joke, waste of people's hard earned cash on most of those un-regluated products, enter MCC anytime soon. Part of the problem here is poor quality and lack of educating people on what is really needed and when. Working in pharmacies for over seven years, the difference made (in the dispensary) and in the health section and well as the clinic, was correctly informing people. I do use website (
www.examine.com) which has an easy to read analysis on vitamins and minerals.
I do however think it cannot be ignored that disease is far more complex than any one truly understands, patients who do feel better with homeopaths respond possibly to their approach, such as actually listening to patients problems, and effective patient management. Homeopathy does support that there is a link between physical symptoms and previous emotional trauma. So the idea of getting to the root of the problem, whether it stems psychologically or something as simple as a magnesium deficiency, is vital to achieving a long term healing plan for patients, given a homeopathic remedy or not.
The other idea in homeopathy, is that people are treated as individuals,the idea that the same disease will effect our body chemistry the same way is not true and treatments need to be more individualized , than the 'one drug fits all' approach. I have heard oncologists say in twenty-thirty years they have had no two presentations of breast cancer alike but yet the treatment protocol remains the same for all, some effective some not.
I am not saying homeopathy shouldn't be criticized, i agree it should, but the strengths in the fact that it has been around for so long, need to be investigated further into the points mentioned above, and possibly medicine as a whole should adopt some of its positive principles, it will be difficult though since its easier to treat eczema with cortisone and doctors would make far less money having to spend longer than 15mins per patient.
The evolved doctors of this time should be medical trained physicians who accept the concepts of the PRO's of therapies such as homeopathy and nutrition.