- The only monument to a doctor in Washington D.C. is a memorial to Samuel Hahnemann the Father of Homeopathy.
- Homeopathy is based the law of similars, a concept that was known as far back as the 4th century B.C. when Hippocrates wrote, “Through the like, disease is produced, and through the application of the like, it is cured.”
- The American Institute of Homeopathy was founded in 1844 and is the oldest still existing medical organization in the U.S.
- The first recorded masked, placebo study was conducted at the American Institute of Homeopathy World Congress in 1885, over 40 years before conventional medicine!
- Women were welcomed into homeopathic medical schools before allopathic schools and the AIH accepted women 5 years before the AMA.
- When the FDA was founded in 1938 the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia was listed along with the US Pharmacopoeia as one of the official drug manuals.
- The use of homeoprophylaxis (homeopathic vaccination) for smallpox was upheld as a legitimate form of vaccination by the Iowa supreme court in 1905.
- Homeopathic pharmacies are the most regulated pharmacies in the US. They are not only monitored by the FDA but they also follow very strict standards set by the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the US.
- Homeopathy is effective on animals and plants!
- Throughout the 1930s the U.S. cavalry used homeopathic veterinary products.
- There are no documented cases confirming any serious adverse events from homeopathic medicines while there are over 100,000 deaths a year from adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals in the U.S. alone.
- During the 1918 Spanish Flu, Dean W. A. Pearson of Philadelphia collected 26,795 cases of influenza from 88 homeopaths with a mortality rate of 1.06% while the allopathic mortality rate was 2.5-10%. Cases collected from homeopaths around the US yielded similar results.
- Leptospirosis is a major disease during flooding season in Cuba. In 2007, the Finlay Institute administered homeoprophylaxis to 2.4 million people in the highest risk areas. The expected infection rate based on conventional methods was a few thousand cases and some deaths. The result of the homeoprophylaxis? Only 10 cases and no deaths while cases of leptospirosis rose in other areas of Cuba. And the cost? $200,000 for the homeoprophylaxis while the conventional vaccinations and drugs usually cost over $2 million.
- Homeopathy has continued to be used widely around the world with a current estimate of over 500 million people. In the U.S. today homeopathy is used by over 6 million people and that number is growing!
- Homeopathy is used by government officials, royalty, and celebrities worldwide!
- The Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in India is the largest homeopathic medical center in the world seeing over 6,000 patients a week with huge success especially in the field of cancer treatment. Papers on their method of treatment have been published in the International Journal of Oncology and they have collaborated research with The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center.