Advanced Homeopathic and Acupuncture Theory - - Kent Palmer 1 ADVANCED HOMEOPATHIC AND ACUPUNCTURE THEORY AND BEYOND A HOLONOMIC APPROACH BASED ON SPECIAL SYSTEMS AND EMERGENT META - SYSTEMS THEORY

There is a fundamental question how homeopathy works. Part of the problem with thus question is that the context within which it is asked needs to be specified. We live in a world dominated by the Western Scientific and Philosophical Tradition, which conditions our approach to Medical Science as well as all other sciences. But this is also a tradition in which there are strong currents of heresy. Homeopathy is one of those heresies. It is joined by other alternatives to the dominant paradigm of Allopathic medicine by other forms of traditional medicine from various sources including Acupuncture from China. Homeopathy itself as Coulter has shown has its basis along with Allopathy in the Greek roots of Western Medicine. Within the Islamic tradition, which nourished and preserved those Greek roots both strands were developed side by side. But it was Hanneman who solidified and represented the Homeopathic tendencies that went against the Allopathic grain into a counter medical science to the dominant strain. This counter tradition enjoyed prominence both in Europe and America up until the First World War when Allopathic medicine won the battle for unquestioned authority in health matters. Kent was the last great theoretician of Homeopathy who in his ‘Philosophy’ attempted to explain how homeopathy worked. Hahnemann himself advances a theory but states that he does not really care how it works, only that it does, indeed, work. All homeopaths have had this same basic attitude up until the present day. However, it is precisely whether Homeopathy does indeed work at all which the American Allopathic Medical Association and their cohorts have called into question. They question the efficacy of Homeopathy even more than they question the curative power of Acupuncture because the latter seems to afford incontrovertible evidence of working through demonstrations of surgical operations without anesthesia using only acupuncture. The basic position propounded by allopathic medicine concerning Acupuncture is that it does work, but we do not know how. On the other hand with respect to Homeopathy there is still a question broadly broached whether Homeopathy works at all.