Primary Care and Individual Resilience

Individual resilience: homeopathy's ‘unique selling point’ in an ‘epidemic of fear’.

The last two and a half years have shown the weaknesses of the conventional medical model: the focus on an external micro-organism has blinded many for the major fact that was documented very soon: the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic affected those with a low resilience, while morbidity and mortality in the general population remained very low. This differential affection by a disease forms in homeopathy the main focus of interest: what makes persons differently vulnerable, what makes them ‘compromised hosts’ – and ‘some are more equal than others’, that is in a group of people in an epidemic, we need to discern between the ill persons and those who remain healthy.

This ‘being aware’ can serve homeopathy as a reflection on what disease is and how we can approach it more effectively than with a generalisation of fear and unrealistic interventions.

I will discuss now first the implications of the ‘compromised host’ approach in homeopathy for epidemics such as COVID-19, and then the implications of personalised assessment for research designs.

Publication History

Article published online:
05 September 2022