Homeopathy is considered to be holistic medicine also. The holistic approach to medicine takes a wider view of illness, a wider view of the causes of disease and the ways in which people express their illness individually. It claims to provoke healing responses to diseases by administering specially prepared substances that mimic the symptoms of those diseases in healthy people. It recognizes that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person, and that it is the patient who needs treatment, not the disease.
Homeopathy is holistic because it treats the whole person, and its remedies assist people to regain health by stimulating their natural healing forces. Homeopaths treat physical, emotional, mental and even the spiritual aspects of each patient, since homeopathy regard these areas as being intimately connected, and all part of the whole of the patient’s suffering.