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Homeopathy is nowadays a more or less accepted part of medicine. More and more health insurance companies accept homeopathy as being reimbursable. But can we accept that? Is homeopathy really part of science-based medicine today? Part of an approach to health whose detection methods have been developed continuously since Hahnemann and are appropriate to the current state of research? I’d like to deal with this problem in this chapter.
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Source: Forum of rural women (in German), www.agrar.de/landfrauen/forum.
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For explanation, it should be added that this applies to the natural sciences and not every science. In the social sciences, for example, such idea-based constructs are used when considering phenomena to explain the theory. These constructs are nothing else but ideas with explanatory potential. Phenomena ascertainable in the social sciences do not necessarily have a material substrate and can also involve ideas, feelings, or sensations. The social sciences (e.g., psychology) have a different research subject than the natural sciences, and only natural science has so far been decisive for medicine. That is why I am referring here to the latter.
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Clemens Maria Franz Freiherr (Baron) von Boenninghausen (1785–1864) was a lawyer, botanist, physician, and pioneer of homeopathy. His “Therapeutic Pocketbook” of 1846 was the first homeopathic repertory to grade individual remedies by their strength of relationship with each symptom, and with each other.
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Grams, N. (2019). Is Homeopathy Part of Today’s Medicine?. In: Homeopathy Reconsidered. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00509-2_3
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