Nancy Bruning

Homeopathy, an old-fashioned way of treating illness by using minute quantities of herbs diluted in water or grain alcohol, has regained support in natural health circles. In the following viewpoint, Nancy Bruning asserts that while neither believers nor skeptics can explain how it works, homeopathy can successfully treat a wide range of health problems, from anxiety to coughs to sore muscles to insomnia. Bruning is a health and environment writer and the author of Healing Homeopathic Remedies.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How did the American Medical Association affect the practice of homeopathy in the nineteenth century, according to Bruning?
2. What are the rules that Bruning cites for taking homeopathic remedies?
3. According to the author, how do most homeopaths view the relationship between homeopathy and other healing methods"

Forget the skeptics—even practitioners of homeopathy struggle...