Is homeopathy a holistic therapy?
A4. Despite the claims by homeopaths it would appear that the answer to this question is “no”. When Sense About Science and the BBC sent undercover researchers to homeopaths to enquire about malaria prevention, they were sold homeopathic remedies and not told anything about bite prevention. The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, instructed his followers to treat the symptoms as they appeared and when the symptoms disappeared the disease would be cured. This is what modern-day homeopaths accuse orthodox medics of doing. Hahnemann wrote the Organon prior to the germ theory of disease. Modern homeopaths do not have this excuse.
