Fair enough. None of what you say was among the similarities I was referring to.

I did not mean that they were literally similar, only that they both depend on a principle of similarity.

Your point is well taken, though I disagree with the "whatsoever" part--absolutes are negated by as little as one instance to the contrary.

Hello. I had to jump in here without being familiar with the Tribe members but........
The 'father of vacinations', whom I do not remember his name at the moment but could look it up, has attributed his findings to the research done by Dr Hahnemann the Father of Homeopathy
(his 250th birthday was noted & celebrated this spring).

The differences are that the Vaccination Theory took the concept of Homeopathy Similiars - that Like treats Like (rather traditional & bibical), & tried using a gross (as in large) 'live' virus to create antibodies within the system to prevent or repel Like, i.e. a disease, & Homeopathic Similiars use molecular levels of non live substances to incite the system to create an immune response to heal the system.

Homeopathy preseded Vaccination Theory by about a 100 years (again do not remember exactly at the moment). It still took a long time to create the medicine of Vaccinations as we know it while Homeopathy has been used successfully by a majority of 1st World medically sophisticated countries for over 200 yrs including the ruling governmental familys. The #1 cold/flu medicine in the whole of France, allopathic or traditional, is a homeopathic - Occillisium, a dead virus from duck liver.

In our country their are Allopathic Drs versed in Homeopathy that have attempted to perscribe & create Homeopathics for people with AIDS & other Chronic life threatening immune diseases by using their own blood as a source of antibodies & or tissue but out Government have disuaded this bcz only they & theirs can come up with a 'Cure' for such possibly chronic costly profits from disease rather than a singular individualized one. The FDA has also seen fit inder this possibility concept to inhibit the release/sale of future Gland & Organ homeopathics that the companies have offered to practitoners in the past though it is not illegal in anyway.

So Bear on the contrary, Homeopathics for 200 years & millions of people, are much more monitored than allopathic Rx meds in that they are individualized to each bodys response to a disease & if not the proper substance than the substance is inert where Allopathic Rx Meds, with less than a 100 years, ok maybe 10 or 20 yrs testing at best, are strong synthesized substances that will affect the body whether it is correct for the illness or not & only tested in theory until reaching the masses where the feedback real test begins for side effects & damage to the individual.

Where you got yr fantasy notoin of Homeopathy is based on "water has memory" I cannot conceive. Have You read Dr. Hanemanns research? Any Homeopathic research tracts or history? & your personal training in Traditional medicines? Training in Allopathic medicines? Studies: Biochemistry, Anatomy, physiology, biology???

And I assure you if a Homeopathist Dr or any competant Alternative Practioner (as I think you think they should be called)
thought a person had a 'serious' illness that sould be seen by an Allopathic Dr then they would without hesitance say so, & be pleased to work with & in conjunction with them.