Diskussionsforum Med Ethik. 1991 Jun; (6): XXXIII-XXXV.

[Homeopathy as an independent and alternative form of therapy]

Büttner S.

The homeopathic therapy is an independent form of therapy. In contrast to standard medical practice homeopathy regards the reactions of the body as the criterium by which one can characterize the medicine and determine its choice. Thus, in this context, the rule of similarity acts a bridge between the medicine and the symptoms of the illness. Homeopathic medicine cures in as much as it depicts the disease of the sick body as an external object which is, at the same time, similar to the illness itself. That is the reason why homeopathic medicine can be understood as a representation of the illness.