Are herbalism and homeopathy the same?
No, these are different healing modalities. Homeopathy is a system of medicine which is considered a valid, legal healing system in several countries, including Germany and the United States. It was devised by a man named Samuel Hahnemann, a German in the late 1800s who believed “like cures like.” This meant that an illness with a certain symptom could be cured by something that causes that very same symptom. Hahnemann took items from nature (including herbs, animal matter, and minerals) and diluted them. Imagine making a large pot of tea and then taking a drop of that tea and adding it to a large pot of water. Then, take a drop of that dilution and add it to another large pot of water. Eventually there is very little, if anything, left of the original pot of tea. Could you find any chemical similarity between the dilution and the original tea? Hardly. But energetically there is something there: this is the idea behind homeopathy. Today, homeopathy is a very scientific healing system t
