Homeopathy: What You Need To Know
NCCIH, National Institutes of Health
The US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health explains homeopathy's two founding premises, 'like cures like' and extreme dilution, summarizes why they conflict with chemistry, and reports that evidence does not support effectiveness for any condition.
More resources on Homeopathy
Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America
Academic history from a University of Washington medical historian tracing American unorthodox medical systems from 1800 onward. Homeopathy features prominently alongside hydropathy, osteopathy and chiropractic, set against the heroic bloodletting-and-purging orthodoxy that made Hahnemann's system attractive.
Homeopathy – The Undiluted Facts: Including a Comprehensive A-Z Lexicon
Edzard Ernst, the first professor of complementary medicine, traces homeopathy's origins under Hahnemann, its principles, the clinical trial and meta-analysis record, and why it persists. Includes an eighty-page A–Z lexicon of terms, remedies and historical figures.
Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy (House of Commons Science and Technology Committee)
The Commons Science and Technology Committee's 2010 Evidence Check examines the scientific plausibility and trial evidence for homeopathy, then the policy question of NHS funding and MHRA product labelling. Full oral and written evidence is included. Covers a dimension nothing else here does: how a legislature interrogates an evidence base and what regulators do about labelling claims. Unusually instructive as a worked example of evidence-to-policy reasoning, with practitioners' and regulators' own testimony reproduced.
Natural Therapies Review 2024 – Homeopathy Evidence Evaluation
Australian Government systematic review of homeopathy's clinical effectiveness, commissioned via NHMRC for the natural therapies rebate review. A 221-page technical report with GRADE certainty ratings across conditions, plus appendices documenting search strategy and excluded studies.
Homeopathy — A lively relic of the prescientific era
Peer-reviewed brief report in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift covering Hahnemann's founding assumptions, potentization and dilution arithmetic, the systematic-review evidence showing no effect beyond placebo, and the ethical and public-health implications of homeopathy's continued popularity in Europe.