Homoeopathy

Homoeopaths treat disease using very low dose preparations administered according to the principle that "like should be cured with like." Practitioners select a drug that would, if given to a healthy volunteer, cause the presenting symptoms of the patient.

Prescribing strategies in homoeopathy vary considerably. In what is often termed "classical" homoeopathy, practitioners attempt to identify the single medicine that corresponds to a patient's general "constitution"a complex picture incorporating current illness, medical history, personality, and behaviour. Two patients with identical conventional diagnoses may receive very different homoeopathic medicines.