Percentage of People using Alternative and Homeopathic Medicines

Sometimes shortened to CAM – is a system of healing which encompasses variety of practices, theories, beliefs and modalities. These methods can often be used by themselves or along with orthodox medicine in treatment or in prevention of a disease in Human and Veterinary patients.

Homeopathy is a system which can be used inline with other forms of treatments. Everything that can be known about the patient can be used to consider the remedy. It is referred to as holistic therapy because of its approach to heal the patient and not the disease.


Popularity of Homeopathy is increasing significantly due to a lot of push factors such as delayed appointments with GPs, lack of time spent with the doctors assessing patient, diagnostical delays in hospital settings, disenchantment using antibiotics, ever increasing side effects and antibiotic resistance.