The previous comparison of the premises of homeopathy and modern medical practice reveal why it has so consistently opposed scientific medicine from its inception. By their very natures, homeopathy, especially classical homeopathy, and scientific medicine must remain antagonists because their view of the cause of disease and the cure for disease are so radically different and opposite from one another.

The founder of homeopathy itself, Samuel Hahnemann, felt that non-homeopathic medicine was "pernicious" because it considers disease as residing in the physical frame, thereby preventing real cure.¹ Medical doctors are simply deluded, indeed they are fools, if they think they can discover the cause of disease; when they claim such a discovery, it is only their vain imaginings.²

This is why James Tyler Kent, M.D., perhaps the greatest leader in homeopathy at the turn of the century, believed that modern physicians cannot properly treat the ill—because they cannot even determine what real sickness is to begin with.³

For Dr. Kent and many other classical and modern homeopaths, physicians who think of curing physical disease are confused at best: "To think of remedies for cancer is confusion, but to think of remedies for the patient who appears to have cancer is orderly…. Cancer is a result of disorder [in the vital force], which disorder must be turned into order and must be healed."⁴ He emphasized "no [physical] organ can make the body sick" and "neither can any disease cause be found with the microscope."⁵ He further emphasized: "All diseases known to man are ... an invisible something that cannot be detected by the chemist or the microscopist, and will never be detected in the natural world. Disease... is not capable of investigation by the natural senses.... Disease causes are invisible."⁶ Thus, he taught that non-homeopathic beliefs and treatments had accomplished nothing more than "the establishment of confusion" in medicine; that its procedures were a "farce" and that it was full of folly and even insanity.⁷ Dr. Kent concluded,

But bacteria and viruses are not "perfectly harmless in every respect"; they continue to destroy many thousands of lives each year. Is the AIDS virus "harmless in every respect?" Anyone who thinks so is deluded. But Hahnemann, Tyler, and other homeopaths rejected and continue to reject the very prescription drugs that may kill deadly bacteria and viruses and save patient lives. For example, Kent believed that whenever a prescription drug was given "let it be clearly understood that a cure of this patient is abandoned."⁹ Traditional homeopaths think the prescriptions given are harmful and evil because people who use them will only become sicker and sicker at the mental or spiritual level, even if they are cured at the physical level.¹⁰ Statements like these indicate why classical homeopathy and medicine must remain forever hostile.¹¹

But matters deteriorate even further. Classical homeopathy believes that not only are scientifically oriented physicians ultimately purveyors of illness and death; not only do they destroy their patients’ health; but, as we will shortly see, their malpractice contributes significantly to the social problems of the entire planet!

Nevertheless, because they claim to be healers and yet are destroyers, they are frauds. As Dr. Grossinger comments,

In other words, homeopathy teaches that, in treating only visible disease, normal medicine must always drive disease deeper and deeper into the person; even to the point where it is incapable of cure, and insanity is the end result:

According to homeopathy then, almost everything the modern physician does is wrong, and this, of course, can never truly help his patients.¹⁴

In fact, according to classical homeopathy, modern medicine is so destructive that it not only makes the patient sicker; it not only ends up producing mental derangement and life threatening illness; but it even causes massive social disruption and disintegration!

In homeopathy, disease itself can ultimately be seen as a curative process, but one that must be managed in a very specific homeopathic manner to be effective. Properly managed, the disease process itself can result in great personal and social benefit. Why? In theory, when disease is treated homeopathically, the organism increasingly becomes resistant to physical and mental illnesses. If homeopathic methods were universal, the physical and mental condition of humanity would progress toward Utopian levels. But when disease is mismanaged, its recuperative powers are lost. By preventing the proper treatment of disease, modern medicine drives it inward on both an individual and social level. As individuals become sicker and more mentally unstable, society itself disintegrates inwardly. Because the practices of modern medicine are universally producing severe physical and mental disease, they are, then, to a significant degree responsible for the grave social and political conditions in the modern world. Dr. Grossinger explains:

In this sense, homeopathy is the world’s savior. It alone knows the true problem of man, it alone can cure man, and it alone has the potential to produce a social Utopia. To the extent homeopathy is rejected, to that extent man will suffer with disease, insanity, war, crime, hunger, apathy, and a host of other evils which only homeopathy can cure:

But such a bizarre theory also provides a convenient rationale for homeopathic inefficacy. Thus, classical homeopathy teaches that even its own failures are not really due to homeopathy which, in theory, can be infallible; they are due to the fact that disease has been driven so far inward that even homeopathy itself has become powerless.¹⁸

Thus, homeopathy is the intractable adversary of modern medicine. Here we find a paradox. Contemporary physicians seem to have ignored homeopathy largely because its medicines are relatively inert, like sugar water. They seem to think homeopathy is relatively harmless. By now it should be obvious that there is a problem with this assumption. The philosophy underlying homeopathy is anything but harmless to modern medicine; the one who believes in the principles of classical homeopathy cannot accept scientific medicine; indeed, he must oppose it. Nor is homeopathy harmless when it treats serious conditions with sugar pills and permits such conditions to go untreated by conventional medicine.

Perhaps modern medicine should take another look.