One of the reasons that homeopathy is the second largest system of medicine in the world today, aside from bringing health benefits without side effects or the dangers inherent in major interventions, is that it offers this holistic approach to health and healing.

Holism implies that the parts in a system relate interactively; that body, mind and spirit are all aspects of a whole being, and that all individuals are involved in a web of interrelationships with the world, its mineral, plant and animal constituents. Apropos of which, the healing agents used in homeopathy derive from mineral, plant and animal sources and are used according to the principle of like cures like.