A Brief Overview of Homotoxicology

© Copyright 2003 by Dr. Alta Smit, M.B., Bch, Bsc, MF HOM, South Africa
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 1)

Homotoxicology is a system of biological medicine developed by Heinz Heinrich Reckeweg, who by being a medical doctor and a homeopath, observed disease processes and combined with research available at the time ( 1960), developed a system of treatment, which is remarkable modern to this day. A number of his postulations are now being supported by contemporary molecular research, and in observing relatively new syndromes, one can see the logic of his thinking. Insulin Resistance is such a relatively newly described disease, which follows his postulations and makes it true.

Homotxicology forms a bridge between homeopathy and allopathic medicine. By using regulatory type biological medicines, which has been developed to support the normal way the body heal itself, and by intimately knowing the mechanisms the body use for this healing, we can apply them in the correct way, and also monitor the progress of the treatment we are applying. This makes homotoxicology ideally suited to the treatment for the intractable diseases and also the newer described syndromes like CFS and Fungal Eosinophilic Rhinosinusitis .