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I have a special love for homeopathy. Homeopathy is highly sustainable medicine—ecologically, financially, and socially. Medicines cost just pennies to dispense, and create no drain on natural resources, and no pollution. It is practiced all over the world, often in the poorest regions where pharmaceutical companies have no interest. Mothers and fathers use it safely at home to treat stings, bruises, fevers and more; at the same time that homeopathic practitioners use it to treat serious illness such as malaria in India and AIDS in Africa.
Don’t be misled by the lack of information on homeopathy in the US. In the early 1900s there were 100 homeopathic hospitals in the US, and 22 homeopathic medical schools. Homeopathic physicians were being trained at Harvard and Dartmouth. In the Cholera epidemic in Cincinnati only three percent of those under homeopathic care died, while between 48 and 60 percent of those under regular medical care died. What happened? Pharmacists didn’t like homeopaths because they couldn’t make any money selling their medicines. “Regular” doctors didn’t like homeopaths because they were critical of the toxic, suppressive therapies being used in standard medicine. So the American Medical Association was formed with the intent of getting rid of their biggest competitors. They succeeded, for about a century. And now we are back. Below are books, in three categories: general, home care, and professional, followed by articles and links on homeopathy.
— Didi Pershouse
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