[Omeo33] Art 1141 - Homeopathy, 2010, 99 (3), 210-214

[Gino Santini]

Hong Kong homeopathy: How it arrived and how it connected with Chinese  
medicine
Ka-wai Fan

Originated by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), homeopathy is a method of  
selecting and preparing medications by matching effects. Homeopathy is  
built on two key principles: the Law of Similars and the Law of  
Infinitesimals. The Hong Kong Association of Homeopathy was founded in  
2007 with a view to promoting the study and practice of homeopathic  
medicine.1 But the therapy—known in Chinese as shunshi liaofa and  
tongyang liaofa—had been introduced to the colony half a century  
earlier, at a time when many called for modernizing Chinese medicine.  
Few doctors trained in Western medicine took it up because the focus  
was on how to integrate this new technique from the West into  
traditional medicine. This paper traces the history of homeopathy in  
Hong Kong and discusses its relationship to efforts to render Chinese  
medicine more scientific.

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