HOMOEOPATHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Homoeopathy today is at its strongest for more than 100 years. Fuelled by its own success in treating the intransigent problems of recent times and by the difficulties faced by conventional medicine, there has been rapid growth both in numbers of patients and in registered practitioners.

Attention has also come from the regulators who want to ensure public safety, although Homoeopathy has been considered the safest of the alternative medicines, and has been commended as such in a recent House of Lords report on alternative medicine.

We have also seen increasing interest from the media both in a supportive and an antagonistic way (often from the same source), which demonstrates how much interest exists in both the media themselves and the general public.

It is likely in the next few years that homoeopathy will follow osteopathy and chiropractic by becoming regulated by government statute and the various professional bodies are working towards this in their own ways and sometimes co-operatively.

Discussions are currently taking place amongst the professional bodies that are likely to lead to the establishment of a single register of qualified homoeopaths in the near future. This will be a great step towards the profession being able to negotiate with the government from a position of strength.

"The beauty of homoeopathy lies in it's simplicity,
The power of homoeopathy lies in it's depth,
The danger of homoeopathy lies in it's shallow application".
Dr T.P. Paschero