Functional Medicine vs. Homeopathy: Not the Same Thing!

This is the #1 Misconception I Clear Up Every Week

Every week I speak with a handful of new interests!  Half of them find me through a local google search as I’m the only ✧Licensed Homeopath in SC who also has a very active social media presence.

I care for clients all over the US but love my Carolina ladies!

But here’s the thing…
They aren’t looking for ME!
They aren’t searching for Homeopaths.

They’re looking for Functional Docs….
And there I *POP up…. Ready to SAVE you months of detox protocols and buckets of generic supplements that will NEVER get you the deep lasting relief you’re needing!

Here are the KEY differences YOU need to know between Functional Medicine and Homeopathy!


➤ Functional Med is glorified ‘mainstream/conventional/allopathic’ medicine

Using ‘natural-ish products’ in an allopathic way.

Homeopathy is a Complete System of Medicine from its foundational philosophy, to tools/medicines used to clinical practice. Homeopathy is in a class of its own.

➤ Functional Med is REDUCTIONISTIC

breaking you down to your parts, Organ systems, 'ROOT cause’, something to point the finger at. They’re still focused on your labs and supplementing you here and there.

Homeopathy is the 2nd system of medicine worldwide and is integrated into many other country’s medical systems and insurance coverage!

✦ Homeopathy can only work by considering you as a whole complete unit.

✦ Homeopathy sees your pattern throughout your entire picture of suffering and dysfunction.

✦ Homeopathy respects common sense in that most issues have not ONE root cause but numerous impacts and variables stemming from childhood, both mental and physical alike.

➤ Functional Med is BIOMECHANICAL

meaning using more ‘natural tools/supplements’ to add/reduce, turn on/suppress mechanical triggers in your organs. Functional Med is only working on the material plane with material substances.

Homeopathy is DYNAMIC = ENERGETIC medicine.
✦ Homeopathy has a greater capacity and farther reaching potential to shoot straight past the pharm meds and supplements (that can only affect the physical plane/tissues) and resonate with where the ‘Seat of Disease lies’... within your Vital Force.

Let me explain.
Before a tumor ever forms, there is a progression that begins with dysfunctional or stagnant energy. This energetic imbalance triggers the body’s protective responses, leading to inflammation. Over time, this chronic inflammation can result in abnormal tissue growth, which may become dense or hardened. If this process continues unchecked, it ultimately culminates in the formation of a tumor—the fourth and final stage in this pattern.
That tumor didn’t pop up overnight.

✦ Instead of primarily trying to ‘target the tissue growth’, Homeopathy ‘connects with’ this deeper energetic pattern you’ve had for decades and stimulates the dysfunctional Vital Force to self regulate and bring order as it innately knows how to do… it simply needs a reminder from a STRONGER SIMILAR remedy match to calm down those SOS signals it’s been sending out for so long. This energetic shift, back towards a more organized pattern, later results in changes and indirect impacts to the cells, tissues and organ systems.

➤ Functional Med still operates with generic PROTOCOLS.

You have a lab marker showing up for Mold, EBV, Lyme, a Parasite… and out pops the detox protocol they use for everyone; be careful, it may be harsh.

✦ Homeopathy is not based on protocols but is rather the most Individualized system of medicine and tailors everything to you. All the details, all the nuance, what makes your symptoms better or worse, what was going on around the time your symptoms started, your perception of yourself and the world around you! There is no other system of medicine and healing that can make sense of all of YOUR symptoms and stimulate you to regulate yourself, strengthening yourself from any of these invasions or imbalances. What worked for your girlfriend with Lyme is not precisely what you need in your Lyme journey! Through individualized care, you'll gently pass parasites as your body needs and you'll steadily rebuild yourself from external pathogens and sensitivities.

➤ Functional Med is often suppressive.

Even a cleanse can be suppressive like a surgery; a clearing out but not a stimulus for YOU to regulate your biome. And once there’s a stripping of your gut flora for example, it does not guarantee that you won’t develop relapsing overgrowths of that suspected ‘root cause’ in the future.

Homeopathy works WITH YOU and not against. Homeopathy operates within the natural Law of Similars meaning that whatever symptoms a homeopathically prepared substance can create in a healthy individual, can also remove these similar symptoms being displayed in an ill individual. When we work in alignment we build your TERRAIN and your resilience overall!

➤ Relapse is common in Functional Med.

✦ Though it can take longer, deep and lasting transformation can be achieved in Homeopathic care as we’ve dealt with uprooting and unraveling your deeply stuck patterns of illness. We even create mental, emotional and generational shifts.

➤ Functional Med doesn’t care about or need to understand all the little nuances to YOU.

Who you are, how you think, your perspectives… your LIVED experience or all the details to how you respond to treatment. They expect you to fill the script, finish the protocol and hope you made it!

✦ Homeopathy MUST incorporate these nuances because it is the most Individualized system of medicine and follows your patterns, your specific responses to know where to go next. You don’t just follow a generic protocol in Homeoapthy… Homeopathy FOLLOWS YOU!

✦ My clients will often want to skip ahead with action steps… while I hold them back so that I can get ALL the details of how they’ve responded and analyze thoughtfully the next plan of care.

➤ Functional Med will sometimes use ‘Homeopathic Blended Formulas’!

✦ This drives rigorously trained and qualified Homeopaths absolute bonkers!!
They use these out of complete and utter ignorance, mixing 5-10 remedies together, hoping that one of those remedies will affect something and offer relief.

The problem? This is not a homeopathic way to use homeopathy, which is…
→ 1 best remedy at a time
→ The least potency needed, matching your energetic need
→ The least repetition necessary to elicit a positive response

Blends can’t delineate which remedy created what action- positive or negative.

Blends do not take into consideration disease progression and thereby remedy progression and how some remedies work well together while others do not!

Blends are often of a very low potency, meaning that they are working more on the material plane and acting in a more direct biomechanical way… vs dynamized homeopathic medicine matched to the person’s indicated need and readiness.

Blends offer no clear path forward in the next steps.

Such an uninformed and unwise way to practice when they have NO classical homeopathic training.

So while those who find me through a local Google search had no clue what I do, many end up joining my practice and bypassing Functional Med!
WHY??
❊ Because Homeopathy makes sense.
❊ Because they want and they get deep, lasting relief and results.
❊ Because they want someone with exceptional skills in medicine, classical homeopathy and concierge care!
❊ They are OVER disjointed case management and want care that is cohesive and streamlined.
❊ They want extra time to be heard and offered tailored understanding along the way.

This is the high touch point in 1:1 care I get to give dozens of women every week in my practice! I’d love to offer you the same. If you made it through Functional Med or if you’re contemplating it and want to be spared from some wasted time and hope, get on a call with me so that I can hear your primary health concerns and share how my services may be just what you’ve been looking for!

♡ ︎Bethany Huss, Licensed Homeopath + RN