An excerpt taken from an interesting article from the journal WDDTY on using Homeopathy for disease prevention rather than vaccination. Vaccines are considered the standard for preventing disease, but evidence has long supported the use of homeopathy for this purpose—and its superior safety profile. Cate Montana reportsIn 2006, in Kerala, India, a group of doctors distributed a homeopathic preventive remedy for the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya to 1,061 people. Only 17 percent of those who took the homeopathic prophylaxis contracted the disease (with usually milder symptoms), while over 73 percent of the unprotected contracted it, resulting in an effectiveness of 82.19 percent. There were no reported side effects from the homeopathic treatment.1On the other hand, on May 15, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended pausing the use of Ixchiq, the chikungunya vaccine, in people over age 60 years. The recommendation was due to serious adverse events, including neurologic issues, cardiac events and two deaths in individuals who received it.Homeopathy has been around since the 18th century, when German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, frustrated by the toxic medical practices of his day, set out to investigate a strange phenomenon that ancient physicians like Hippocrates and Paracelsus had also noticed and written about: “similia similibus curantur,” or “like cures like.” In other words, a remedy created from a particular plant (or other substance) that causes certain symptoms can also stimulate the body to heal similar symptoms in someone who is ill.For example, a homeopathic preparation of poison ivy, Rhus Toxicodendron, which causes inflammation and a rash, can be used as an anti-inflammatory to treat arthritis and various skin conditions. A homeopathic preparation of coffee known as Coffea Cruda calms the racing mind and “jitters” in people who have consumed too much caffeine from drinking coffee or black tea. (Speaking from experience, this author can testify that it works.)Hahnemann stumbled across this effect after he ingested the cure for malaria (quinine) and experienced the same effects that malaria itself produced. Curious, he went on to laboriously research the phenomenon, eventually creating an entire medical system based on the Law of Similars.Not only did he create at least 90 effective remedies for disease conditions ranging from skin lesions to scarlet fever but he also developed homeopathic prophylaxes—remedies that could be used to prevent disease from occurring in the first place.Attacks on Hahnemann’s research forced him to leave Germany in 1835. But despite ongoing onslaughts from the allopathic medical community since then, the results of Hahnemann’s discovery have stood the test of time.This includes his development of effective remedies for preventing disease—an issue of considerable importance and one still neglected by conventional medicine in our modern era. The following are a few examples of the effectiveness of homeopathic prophylaxis, also known as homeoprophylaxis (HP)—essentially homeopathic vaccination.Homeoprophylaxis
One of the first modern recorded uses of homeopathic remedies for disease prevention was during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. The CDC archives estimate about 500 million people—one-third of the world’s population at the time—got sick with an H1N1 virus. The number of deaths worldwide was estimated at 50 million.In comparison to allopathic physicians, who lost approximately 30 percent of their patients, records indicate that homeopaths using symptom-specific remedies including Gelsemium Sempervirens (made from the twining vine of the same name) experienced a mortality rate of just over 1 percent.2More recently, in 1998, two professors of medicine at the University Foundation in Blumenau, Brazil, immunized 65,826 young people homeopathically to protect against meningococcal disease. The control group of 23,532 people were not given the remedy.During the following year, there were four cases among those protected homeopathically and 20 cases in those not protected. Statistical analysis showed that homeopathic immunization offered 95 percent protection against meningococcal disease in the first six months and 91 percent protection over the year.3In late 2007, during an annual epidemic of leptospirosis (a bacterial blood infection), the Cuban government distributed a homeopathic nosode (a remedy made from the disease itself) to 2.3 million people at high risk of infection. The remaining population of 8.8 million was left untreated. Incidence of the disease dropped 84 percent in treated areas within weeks, while the epidemic increased 22 percent in untreated provinces. The protective effect continued into 2008.4In 2008, facing an outbreak of dengue fever, a county in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, carried out a “homeopathy campaign against dengue.” A prophylactic homeopathic was given to 156,000 asymptomatic patients, and 129 doses of the Genus Epidemicus (GE) were given to symptomatic patients at outpatient clinics.A GE remedy is a homeopathic remedy (or remedies) that numerous licensed homeopathic doctors have identified and agreed on as specific and appropriate for treating common symptoms of a particular epidemic, such as respiratory difficulties, barking cough, chills, fever, etc.In three months, cases of the fever dropped 93 percent in comparison to the same period in 2007. But the rest of the untreated state experienced a 128 percent increase in cases.5