Most of my 40 years in Homeopathy have been spent in befuddlement, and the attempt to resolve Homeopathy's various contradictions, and in the investigation of various heresies which are proven to be viable in practice.
Until fairly recently the only argument we could advance in support of homeopathy is that, "The proof of the pudding lies in the eating."ie the total justification for Homeopathy is that it works. In actual practice it healed brilliantly, but was always written off as "Anecdotal," "Placebo effect," etc.(It always amazed me that the orthodox medical viewpoint could never encompass "Where there's smoke there's fire," and investigate Homeopathy benignly to establish a rationale for all the anecdotal healings.Or why our placebos worked so disproportionately more effectively than theirs.
That's just a digression, I doubt we will ever alter the official medical mindset.)

But similarly, there are so many other issues which work in practice but don't fit the theory that Homeopaths can be accused of much the same attitudes.

SO ! Let's see how humanity stands some 200 years after Jenner, Pasteur, and the introduction of Smallpox vaccine. You'll find that after about 8 generations of smallpox vaccinations we have a vastly sicker humanity to deal with today, even though smallpox is virtually non-existent.The relationship of this vaccine to Thuja, our chief Gonnorrhoea remedy, never ceases to amaze me. Like Cures Like and all that.

Then we have all the children's vaccinations to ensure the child never shows a symptom of illness. I well remember some 30 years ago reading Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard's comments that Cancer was far more prevalent in people who had never had the Usual Childhood Diseases. It seems that Measles, Mumps, Chicken Pox etc function as drainage systems for the Cancer miasm.  We are certainly seeing a mass proving of her observations today. Likewise Kent's comments about the suppression of skin symptoms suppressing humanity out of existence. How frequently do you see a good healthy base line eczema nowadays ? Two of our graduates presented such a case before Christmas. The Remedy was Viola Tricolor, one of those forgotten remedies simply because it doesn't have any singular mental symptoms. It's rare enough to comment on.

Antibiotics and steroids suppress any and every inflammation, and any physiological malfunction, but without healing.
Eventually we get the well-known Syndrome Shift, mentioned in Aphorism 216, or the "Jump" more recently reported by Vithoulkas, into a much deeper and more predominantly mental/emotional state. This saves the physical body, but turns us into a race of neurotics, fit only for Television soap operas.

Here I quote the New Zealand Herald of 15/12/01, "One third of Medics mentally ill." This is not to malign the medics, but to point out that they have greatest access to their own potions. If anyone should be well, they should. And if not, why not ?

All this gives us a much reduced success rate in clinical prescribing, and an enhanced success rate in prescribing on the mentals.

I seriously doubt we would nowadays achieve better than a 10- 20% success rate working on symptomatic prescribing.How many of you have had the asthma case of whom you enquire" and is it worse when you Lie down/Stand up/Exercise/ Go out in the wind/Or in the rain/Get excited etc etc" for all of the 10 pages of modalities we have for this complaint; only to be told, "My chest gets a bit tight and I take a puff, and that's my only symptom."

My first heretical quarrel with the ORGANON is that the Totality of Symptoms is no longer the ONLY way to find the Similimum. In my view it is the least effective of all the pathways open to us. Largely because to a great extent the symptoms no longer exist.