Pure Homeopathy Defined

This paper is supplementary to that great paper by the late Dr. von Boenninghausen on Hahnemann’s Three Precautions, published first in the Neues Archiv, and translated in the American Homoeopathic Review. It is addressed to such members of the medical profession who have accepted and appreciate his three precautions against these three errors.

This chapter is very important as it can serve as a red flag warning to aspiring homeopaths and all existing and future leaders of homeopathic institutions so that history doesn’t repeat itself. First, for all aspiring homeopaths, this chapter can guide learning how to distinguish pure homeopathy from misrepresentations and to know when to walk away from any teachings that are not pure homeopathy. Second, for any current or future homeopathic institution, this chapter presents a great lesson, which is to never ever, I repeat, to never ever let any misrepresentation infiltrate our institutions, namely our schools, clinics, professional associations, regulating boards, supporting organizations, journals, publishers, etc.

In Sect. 18 of this much neglected book, we read “that the totality of the symptoms is the sole indication for the selection of remedies.” This is true if we understand that in this totality are contained the symptoms which control the choice. It is not true if by this be meant that all the symptoms in this totality are of equal authority in their control of this choice. That this is not what the author intended to teach is made quite plain by Sect. 153, which may be taken as a commentary on Sect. 18.