The similar remedy selected for a sick person should be prescribed in minimum dose, so that when administered, there is no toxic effect on the body. Observing this rule helps to avoid confusing and potentially complex remedy interactions. They are the essence of homeopathy and therefore engage all the principles and concepts that make homeopathy a comprehensive system of medicine This was a trend setter at that time when the usual prescriptions contained as many as 26 drugs at a time. In homeopathy, the drug proving to ascertaining the curative property of a drug is done with a single remedy derived from a single source – primarily plant, mineral or chemical.
In a final vote, the signatories – established medical organisations and numerous physicians and scientists of renown – reject all efforts to pursue totalitarian thought patterns in our healthcare system which are irreconcilable with constitutional law.This tenet of classical homeopathy states that only one homeopathic medicine should be prescribed at a time and directs to choose and administer such a single remedy, which is most similar to the symptoms of the sick person. It should also be noted that attempts to monopolize a single paradigm favour the emergence of totalitarian thought patterns. However, under Basic Law (German constitution) Article 5 Paragraph 3, the state is generally forbidden to pass judgment on scientific matters in the sense of advocacy of one specific paradigm. Ludwig Fleck and Thomas Kuhn already described tendencies among proponents of specific paradigms to claim privileges for their own paradigm via legislation. In this context, reference is made to a position paper on medical professionalism signed by all DPM members which underlined that conventional and complementary medicine alike are obliged to adhere to scientific standards. The idea is to establish Integrative Medicine in a spirit of critical but unbiased collaboration between mainstream medicine and selected complementary approaches as a precondition for a fully orchestrated healthcare system that meets the individually varying needs and preferences of the population. On behalf of the DPM members as well as numerous medical organisations and renowned physicians and researchers, this article comments on such unjustified claims by means of specific examples. It has become fashionable to belittle homeopathy as being ineffective, using inaccurate statements on the state of research. Current DPM members are established proponents of mainstream medicine, anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, classical naturopathy and Chinese Medicine (TCM). The DPM strives to assess divergent paradigms in medicine for their potential to complement each other. The article describes the initiative in Germany as linking up with the concept of Integrative Medicine which originated from the United States and today is spreading across the world.
Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, then president of the German Medical Association, the Dialogue Forum Pluralism in Medicine (DPM) aims to overcome the traditional partisan bias between conventional medicine and complementary medicine by way of continued critical and objective dialogue between acknowledged representatives of different theoretical and practical approaches, in favour of an Integrative Medicine. Founded in 2000 by renowned physicians and researchers on the initiative of Professor Dr.