Table 1.

Summary of overlaps between homeopathic and dynamical systems concepts

Homeopathic Concept	Dynamical Systems Research Concept
Disease states/remedies and health express themselves through unique patterns of symptoms (behaviors)	Attractor patterns—rigid (stuck), flexible (resilient)
Small doses produce big effects	Nonlinearity
Timing of intermittent dosing when remedy picture stabilizes (or begins to reverse toward disease state)	Sensitive dependence of system response on initial conditions
Aggravations and reversals in direction of illness trajectory	Phase transitions, bifurcations, and cusp catastrophe events
Removing obstacles to cure	Fitness landscape within the environment
Hering’s Law of Cure	Self-organization