Many famous people including Charles Darwin, David Beckham, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Charles Menninger (founder of the famous Menninger Clinic), Dizzie Gillespie and Mark Twain, to name just a few, have spoken in support of homeopathy.
“No individual has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann” (the father of Homeopathy).
–C. Everett Koop, M.D. (Surgeon General of the United States from 1982-1989)
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.”
Published in Koop, New York: Harper, 1992.
John D. Rockefeller lived to the ripe old age of 98 and was often known to have his homeopath travel with him. He said that homeopathy is “a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.”
Famous People from the Past
Other famous people who have been known to use homeopathic medicines include Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, William Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Pope Pius X, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison, Daniel Webster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Seward, artist Jackson Pollock, W.C. Fields, and former American Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley.
“It satisfies the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine…”
–Charles Menninger, M.D
“The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of allopaths (the orthodox physicians) to destroy it.”
–Mark Twain
“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”
–Dizzy Gillespie, great jazz musician
“Effective natural remedies that have no side effects.”
–Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., Professor, University of Illinois Medical School and best-selling author
“Homeopathy is the safest and most reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.”
–Yehudi Menuhin, world famous violinist
Today’s Celebrities
Other modern-day famous people who have publicly declared their interest in and support for homeopathic medicine include: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Pamela Anderson, Jane Fonda, Cher, Rosie O’Donnell, Martin Sheen, the Chili Peppers, Jane Seymour, Lesley Anne Warren, Axl Rose, Linda Gray, Susan Blakely, Michael Franks, Cybil Sheppard, Vidal Sassoon, Angelica Houston, Boris Becker, Martina Navratilova, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, Cliff Robertson, Jerry Hall, Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Judd, Naomi Judd, Olivia Newton-John, Juliana Margulies, JD Salinger, Blythe Danner, Pat Riley, and England’s -Prime Minister Tony Blair.
“If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor”
–Lindsay Wagner
“I can’t manage life without homeopathy. I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I use them often…”
–Paul McCartney