Bull World Health Organ. 1999 ; 77(2): 160-6.

Integrating homoeopathy in health systems.

Poitevin B.

French Association for Homeopathy Research, Vendat, France.

Homoeopathy is a therapy which involves many components and three main agents: the patient, with his or her condition and personal characteristics; the medication used, with its composition and manufacturing procedure; and the physician, with his or her approach to treatment and concepts of health. The development of research and evaluation structures, combined with a critical education in the discipline, would help to improve practices and define homoeopathy's potential role in relation to the other therapies, both conventional and unconventional, used in Western health systems.