Homeopathy is the second-largest and fastest-growing medicine in the world.

(World Health Organization)

Homeopathy is a medical science and art developed over 200 years ago by Samuel Hahnemann, a brilliant physician and medical translator in Germany. It quickly became the medicine of choice among many Europeans. Homeopathy gained great fame due to its success during epidemics, and, by 1900, it was practiced by one in five medical doctors in the U.S.

Over the past thirty years, homeopathy has enjoyed a boom in popularity and interest in the U.S., India, Pakistan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and many other places throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, homeopathy is the second-largest and fastest-growing medicine in the world. In India alone, 100 million people use it exclusively to stay healthy. Up to 70% of French doctors consider homeopathy effective, and at least 25,000 prescribe it to their patients. A 2011 report by the government of Switzerland, a bastion of pharmaceutical headquarters, concluded that homeopathic medicine was both effective and cost-effective, and recommended that it be covered by their national health insurance (according to a February 2012 article in the Huffington Post by Dana Ullman, M.P.H.).