Integral Homeopathy – Elements, Patterns, and Homeopathy

Abstract

The emergence of Integral Homeopathy is made possible because of Scholtenʼs Element theory. His theory, from a developmental stance, has irrevocably changed homeopathy. It hauled homeopathy into the long overdue development as a science as well as initiated a paradigm shift in conceptualising remedy pictures. In that, the Element theory has taken homeopathy from the zero and first stage of science, since the days of Hahnemann, to the second stage in the classification of remedies – a monumental leap by any stretch of the imagination. In regard to its paradigmatic shift it liberated homeopathy from the confines of gathering symptoms derived from provings to understanding the remedy patterns by way of classifications. Hence, it provided the foundation formy expanding and evolving from the Classical homeopathyʼs focus on parts (Repertory/rubrics) to Pattern recognition (e.g. Element theory/psychological complexes).