How to Learn Homeopathy - The History of Homeopathy

by Dana Ullman, MPH ©2006

Homeopathic principles of healing pre-date Hippocrates and have been utilized in many cultures throughout the world. 

Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional & Alternative Medicine, Natalie Robins (a fascinating history book with some emphasis on Royal Copeland, MD, the homeopath and ophthalmological surgeon who became the Senator from New York and who wrote the law that empowered the FDA and that recognized homeopathic medicines as legal).

Divided Legacy (4 volumes), Harris L. Coulter, PhD. (Individual volumes can be purchased separately!  This set of books represents a truly monumental body of analysis of Western medical history told from a point of view that is critical of the conventional "rational" Western model of medicine and supportive of the "empirical" tradition in Western medicine.

Volume I covers the period in medicine from Hippocrates to Parcelsus, 15^th century;

Volume II  covers European medicine from the 15^th century to 1850;

Volume III covers American medicine from 1800 to 1915;

Volume IV covers 20^th century medicine.)

Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, by Matthew Wood (This book provides biographies of various Western physicians and healers who honored the vitalist tradition in philosophy and medicine.)

A Homeopathic Love Story: The Story of Samuel and Melanie Hahnemann, by Rima Handley, PhD.  (This is the true story of the founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, who at an age of 79, met his 2^nd wife, who was a French artist, intellectual, and feminist of 34 years of age.)

The Faces of Homeopathy, by Julian Winston.  (This is a great hardback, fully illustrated book of biographies of past and present leaders in homeopathy.  A great coffee table book!)

The Faces of Homeopathy (video), by Julian Winston (This is a video with highlights from the book.)

The best source of homeopathic books, tapes, home medicine kits, and software is:

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DANA ULLMAN, MPH, is one of America's leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, Discovering Homeopathy, and (the best-selling) Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (with Stephen Cummings, MD). He is the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services, America's leading resource center for homeopathic books, tapes, medicines, software, and correspondence courses. Homeopathic Educational Services has co-published over 35 books on homeopathy with North Atlantic Books. Dana writes a regular column for the wildly popular website, www.Huffingtonpost.com (to access these articles, click HERE!).

STATEMENT ABOUT DANA ULLMAN, MPH, by DAVID ANICK, MD, PhD., Harvard School of Medicine: 

"You are the Jon Stewart of homeopathy, the way you combine information ("gee I didn't know that!") with humor.  And you avoid defensiveness, which is terrific."