The Forgotten Legacy of Homeopathy: Why We Deserve Freedom from the Medical Paradigm

[This post is part of my series on reclaiming homeopathy. You can also read Symptoms Are Gifts to learn how homeopathy retraces and heals suppressed illness.]

A World Turned Upside Down

I truly believe conventional medicine should be reserved for true emergencies. If I were in a horrific car accident, you better believe I’d want the surgeon who can save my life. But what about everything else?

Why do we accept that pain must be dulled by morphine or codeine when Hypericum every 30 seconds could ease suffering without addiction or side effects? Why do we trust prophylactic antibiotics when homeopathy can help the body defend itself?

If homeopathy had been given the spotlight it deserved for the past 200 years, instead of being repressed and mocked, we would be living in a different world. A healthier one.

How We Got Here: The Suppression of Homeopathy

Homeopathy was once everywhere in America. There were homeopathic hospitals, medical schools, and respected physicians across the country. Families trusted it. Doctors used it. It worked.

So what happened?

Enter Rockefeller and the industrial powers of the early 20th century. With money and influence, they reshaped the entire medical landscape. Homeopathic colleges and hospitals were shut down. Funding disappeared. Laws were passed to make collaboration impossible.

The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded after the American Homeopathic Association, yet it quickly gained the upper hand. Doctors were forbidden from consulting with homeopaths, even from playing golf or marrying one. The message was clear: erase homeopathy from legitimacy.

Homeopathy wasn’t pushed out because it didn’t work. It was pushed out because it threatened an industry.

Imagine If Homeopathy Had Been the Standard of Care

Sometimes I stop and wonder—what would our world look like if homeopathy had never been suppressed? If, instead of sidelining it, society had embraced it as the primary form of medicine?

We wouldn’t be handing our babies Tylenol for every fever. We’d understand that a fever has purpose, and we’d support it gently with remedies that help the body heal more efficiently.

We wouldn’t live in fear of antibiotics—or the superbugs that overuse has created. Infections would still arise, but families would have confidence in remedies that address the body’s needs without destroying the gut or weakening immunity.

We wouldn’t be drowning in the opioid crisis. Pain management would mean using remedies like Hypericum, Arnica, or Belladonna—safe, effective, non-addictive medicines that don’t rob people of their clarity or their lives.

Our elderly wouldn’t be on ten, fifteen, even twenty prescriptions a day, each one written to counter the side effects of the last. Instead, they’d be supported with individualized remedies that honor their constitution and improve their vitality—allowing them to age with dignity, strength, and clarity of mind.

Hospitals would look different. Instead of entire wards filled with people suffering from complications of chronic disease, we’d see faster recoveries, shorter stays, and far fewer long-term consequences from suppressive treatments. Doctors and homeopaths would collaborate, not compete.

Children would grow up stronger, with fewer chronic illnesses. Instead of asthma, eczema, food allergies, and behavioral struggles becoming the “new normal,” parents would have tools to address these issues at the root. Families would feel confident and empowered instead of fearful and dependent.

And maybe most importantly—we would have preserved something priceless: trust in the body’s ability to heal.

That’s the world we could have had. And while we can’t go back, we can move forward. Every time a family learns to use homeopathy, every time a mother gains confidence with her remedies, every time someone chooses natural healing over suppression—we take one step closer to the world that should have been ours all along.

My Heart for Independence

This is why I am so passionate about seeing families step outside of the allopathic paradigm. I long for a world where parents feel confident, not dependent. Where health is not a business transaction, but a birthright.

Homeopathy isn’t something you pick up overnight. It takes practice, patience, and a willingness to learn. But it is absolutely possible for mothers to become proficient bedside prescribers—able to care for fevers, coughs, bumps, bruises, even emotional struggles—with remedies that empower rather than suppress.

This is one of my deepest goals: to help mothers gain that independence. Because every remedy you learn to use well is another layer of freedom.

Beyond Remedies: A Broader Healing Lens

In my own practice, I don’t stop with remedies. I also use applied kinesiology to uncover the hidden obstacles that may stand in the way of healing. I draw from my background in nursing, my knowledge of ancestral nutrition (like the work of the Weston A. Price Foundation), and my understanding of emotional and energetic patterns.

For me, healing isn’t compartmentalized. It’s whole. It’s body, mind, spirit, family, and even community.

And at the heart of it all is informed consent. Too often, people don’t even know the full picture when they make decisions about their health. I believe every family deserves transparency and empowerment, not pressure or manipulation.

Why This Season of Life Matters

I think part of my fire comes from being in the thick of this season myself—pregnancy, postpartum, nursing, raising young children. I’m not writing from an ivory tower or speaking from a detached clinic chair. I’m living it. I’m in the trenches with you.

Every night I spend rocking a baby. Every decision I make about nutrition. Every fever or rash I navigate with my kids. It all fuels my conviction that there is a better way forward.

Choosing a Different Way Forward

If homeopathy had remained the mainstay of medicine, our health landscape would look completely different today. But even though it was sidelined, it has never disappeared. It has survived in families, in communities, in the hands of mothers and practitioners who refused to let it go.

We may not be able to rewrite the past, but we can reclaim our future. Every remedy given at home, every mother who gains confidence, every family that chooses natural healing—that is how we push back against a broken system.

This isn’t just my profession. It’s my calling. And I believe it’s how we change the world—one mother, one child, one family at a time.

If you’re wondering how homeopathy actually retraces symptoms and heals what suppression has buried, I share more in this post: Symptoms Are Gifts: How Homeopathy Heals Suppressed Illness at the Root.

“For the strength of mothers and the health of generations.”

— Emily Stein