Scientific Approach Towards Homeopathy
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:33 pm
Hahnemann was ready to revise everything according to new experience and updated knowledge. The fact that he re-wrote organon six times during his life-span clearly shows that he was `dialectical' in his approach. For him, homeopathy was a constantly advancing `science'- a medical science. Not a `closed system'. He was willing to accommodate the experiences and suggestions of others also.
After the death of hahnemann, initially homeopathy continued to be an open system. That is why the thought of hering, kent, nash, boenninghaussen and many other stalwarts were incorporated into homeopathy, and became part of homeopathy.
After the first generation of homeopaths also disappeared from the scene, homeopathy began to be more and more institutionalized and `dogmatized'. It lost the character of science, and became more or less a closed `system'.
For the last 200 years, homeopathy hesitated to interact with modern scientific knowledge- abstained from creative `dialogue' with other areas of human knowledge. Homeopaths started call this `closed' system as `classical homeopathy'. `Purity' was the key word. Safeguarding the purity of `original' dogmas were considered to be the sacred duty of homeopathy. Ultimately, this approach grew into an `anti-scientific' outlook, constantly resisting all innovations and scientific intrusions into the sacred lands of `pure homeopathy'
I am trying to make homeopathy a science again. For that, homeopathy has to bridge the great knowledge divide of 200+years and reach abreast with modern scientific human knowledge.
We have to explain each and every `principles' and `laws' of homeopathy in terms of modern science. We have to experiment every claims of homeopathy in accordance with scientific method. We have to be brave enough to accept new knowledge into homeopathy, same time discarding everything obsolete and unscientific in homeopathy. That is the duty of all true followers of hahnemann.
By `Dialectical Homeopathy', I want to instill this scientific sense and approach into fellow homeopaths. I want to declare our willingness to change, growth and advancement towards more and more perfection. I want to declare that homeopathy is `science', not a `system of immutable dogmas'.
After the death of hahnemann, initially homeopathy continued to be an open system. That is why the thought of hering, kent, nash, boenninghaussen and many other stalwarts were incorporated into homeopathy, and became part of homeopathy.
After the first generation of homeopaths also disappeared from the scene, homeopathy began to be more and more institutionalized and `dogmatized'. It lost the character of science, and became more or less a closed `system'.
For the last 200 years, homeopathy hesitated to interact with modern scientific knowledge- abstained from creative `dialogue' with other areas of human knowledge. Homeopaths started call this `closed' system as `classical homeopathy'. `Purity' was the key word. Safeguarding the purity of `original' dogmas were considered to be the sacred duty of homeopathy. Ultimately, this approach grew into an `anti-scientific' outlook, constantly resisting all innovations and scientific intrusions into the sacred lands of `pure homeopathy'
I am trying to make homeopathy a science again. For that, homeopathy has to bridge the great knowledge divide of 200+years and reach abreast with modern scientific human knowledge.
We have to explain each and every `principles' and `laws' of homeopathy in terms of modern science. We have to experiment every claims of homeopathy in accordance with scientific method. We have to be brave enough to accept new knowledge into homeopathy, same time discarding everything obsolete and unscientific in homeopathy. That is the duty of all true followers of hahnemann.
By `Dialectical Homeopathy', I want to instill this scientific sense and approach into fellow homeopaths. I want to declare our willingness to change, growth and advancement towards more and more perfection. I want to declare that homeopathy is `science', not a `system of immutable dogmas'.