"There have been two relevations in my life. The first was bebop, the second was homeopathy". - Dizzy Gillespie.
"You may honestly feel grateful that Homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopathists [ conventional doctors ] to destroy it". - Mark Twain.
"Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties - only benefits" - Yehudi Menuhin.
Homeopathy attracted support from many of the most respected members of society. Its advocates included: William James, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln and numerous members of his staff, Robert E. Lee, Daniel Webster, William Seward, Horace Greeley, Louisa May Alcott, John D. Rockefeller.
William Cullen Bryant, the famous journalist, was president of the New York Homeopathic Society.
In Europe, Homeopathy could count among its supporters: Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, William Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Pope Pius X, Niccolo Paganini.
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, who generally was vehemently opposed to the use of drugs, acknowledged Homeopathy's value, saying: "Evidence of progress and of spiritualization greets us on every hand. Drug-systems are quitting their hold on matter and so letting in matter's higher stratum, mortal mind. Homeopathy, a step in advance of allopathy [conventional medicine], is doing this".
Even The Journal of the American Medical Association acknowledged in 1872: "We all know perfectly well that the sympathy of the press generally and of the public is with the Homeopaths".
Queen Elizabeth's primary physician is a Classically trained Homeopath, Dr Ronald W. Davey. Great Britain's Royal Family has relied on Homeopathic practitioners since the 1830's, when Dr. Hahnemann was still alive and practicing in Paris.
Surveys revealed that 40-50% of physicians in Great Britain referred patients to Homeopaths. [ British Medical Journal (June 1986), and Times (London, March, 1985) ].
In India there are over 120 four or five-year Homeopathic medical schools, all of which have clinics, and some of which are affiliated with Homeopathic hospitals, where Homeopathy is the treatment of first recourse in most cases. This makes a lot of sense: try the gentle way first. Even when surgery is required, prep and post-surgical treatment, in the majority of cases, is exclusively Homeopathy. For example, Homeopathy is often fabulously successful in pain management.
Homeopathy is widespread in France, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Spain, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Russia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, and others.
In the United States, Homeopathic patients tend to be better educated than the average American. [ Avina & Schneiderman, "Why Patients Choose Homeopathy", Western Journal of Medicine, 128 (April 1978): 366-369.]
Celebrities today who use Homeopathy remedies include: Jennifer Aniston, Jade Jagger, Orlando Bloom, Tobey Maguire, Sir Paul McCartney, David Beckham and family, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.