The practice of homeopathy follows a holistic approach. “Falling ill” and “being ill” are understood and analyzed through the interactions of the individual within their life context, based on their genetics and social relationships.
For this reason, various diagnostic and therapeutic research fields of holistic medicine contribute to the development of a comprehensive understanding, formulated as comprehensive models:
- the concept of salutogenesis,
- the bio-psycho-social model,
- psychosomatics and
- the results of psycho-neuro-immunology research on individual stress response behaviour.
Added to this are the findings of (epi-)genetics, which can establish a constantly evolving basis of constitutional characteristics and behaviours.
From a holistic perspective, it is not sufficient to determine the course of a disease solely on the basis of objectively measurable parameters or findings obtained by means of imaging.
Nor can medical diagnostic findings be ignored or neglected in favour of pure phenomenology, as is and has often been misleadingly formulated in the literature on homeopathy.
Rather, a research perspective is sensible that integrates a systematic processing of individual case criteria into diagnostics and evaluation. Two essential conditions must be met for this, which are recognized and elaborated in the real therapeutic everyday requirements:
- Phenomenological analysis over time in order to recognise phasic fluctuations and their significance for the course of symptoms.
- The individual meaning and inner experience of the symptoms, for the exact understanding of the quality of conditions.
In this way, individual response patterns can be examined and compared in an evaluative manner to further develop the systematics of case understanding as a whole. Detailed elaborations on the areas mentioned above are currently being planned and will be published successively.