This international project was launched by five homeopathics associations :

International Foundation for Clinical Homeopathy (IFCH)

The IFCH was set up in 1985 as the FFRH (French Foundation for research into homeopathy) as part of the Fondation de France (French Foundation).

In 1987 it became an independant body known as the IFRH (The French Institute for research into homeopathy).

In 2002 the IFCH decided to focus essentially on the teaching of homeopathy throughout the world, clinical homeopathy based on a rigorous and scientific approach.

It then incorporated the world's foremost school of homeopathy, the CEDH, and in 2005 assimilated Italy's leading school of homeopathy, the CISDO.

It became the International Foundation for Clinical Homeopathy (IFCH) and currently chooses to sponsor medical and scientific initiatives that make it possible to integrate evaluated clinical homeopathy into the heart of medicine.

American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH)

The American Institute of Homeopathy, a 501(C)6 trade association whose membership comprises allopathic and ostheopathic physicians, dentist, practice nurses and physicians assistants, has as its putpose the promotion and improvement of homeopathic medicine and the dissemination of medical knowledge pertaining thereto.

It strives to elevate and improve the standards of homeopathic medical education while safeguarding the interests of the profession and attaining general recognition and public acceptance of homeopathy.

Established on 10 April 1844, the year after the death of homeopathy's German founder, DR C.F Samuel Hahnemann, the AIH is the oldest national medical professional organization in the United States. The institute has survived the vicissitudes of fortune attendant upon homeopathy and, upon the whole field of alternative medicine in the United States, and is still active in a time when society is more welcoming to complementary medicine in general, and to homeopaty in particular.

The American Institute of Homeopathy, its Board of Trustees and its membership look toward a bright future for themselves and for the public whom they serve as they dedicate themselves to their mission statement, "Advancing Health Care through Homeotherapeutics".

The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (RLHH)

For 150 years the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital has been the leading complementary medicine provider in the United Kingdom and is the biggest public sector hospital in Europe in the field of integrated complementary and alternative medicine.

Homeopathy remains its central pillar, but many other therapies form an integral part of the service it provides. The hospital plays a vital role in the growing demand for complementary medical education and has also invested a great deal of research effort into new techniques and therapies in complementary medicine.

The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, the leading centre for complementary medicine in the NHS (National Health Service), joined UCLH (University College London Hospitals) in April 2002. The merger enables closer collaboration between complementary therapies and conventional medicine with the aim of providing better care for NHS patients. The merger coincides with the government’s commitment to integrate complementary and conventional care in the NHS, which bears witness to the effectiveness of complementary therapies.

The RLHH has recently undergone complete renovation at a cost of £20 million to transform it into a center for integrated medicine. Work on the new Queen’s Square centre began in the summer of 2002. The new hospital provides state-of-the-art care and research facilities in homeopathic and complementary therapies as well as access to a wide range of expertise in the other university hospitals.

The new RLHH center incorporates existing approaches and tests the effectiveness of new ones, including ambulatory care; inpatient and outpatient consulting rooms; diagnostic services; therapy and treatment areas; training, conference and research facilities; retail outlets and pharmacies.

The European Committee for Homeopathy (ECH)

The ECH is the European association for homeopathic physicians and other officially acknowledged healthcare professionals in the field of homeopathy – veterinarians, dentists, pharmacists and midwives.

It is supported by other professionals who make an essential contribution to the development of homeopathy – researchers, documentalists and patients’ organisations.

- to promote and defend the quality of the science of medical homeopathy before the European Authorities;
- to defend the practice of homeopathy before the European Authorities by all legal means;
- to promote research into homeopathy;
- to provide assistance to all the individuals it represents in their local activities;
- to promote the harmonisation of homeopathic medical practice across Europe;
- to represent both individuals and local, regional and national organisations throughout Europe that share the same aims.

Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH)

Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) is the premier research organization for Homoeopathy of the Govt. of India under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of AYUSH, has recently completed 25 years of the its existence. It has evolved into with a network of 37 institutes/units located in different parts of India with the following mandate:

· To initiate, develop, undertake and coordinate scientific research in fundamental and applied aspects of Homoeopathy.
· To exchange information with other institutions, associations and societies interested in the objectives similar to those of the Council.
· To collaborate research studies with other Institutes of Excellence towards promotion of Homoeopathy.



The research programmes of the Council broadly encompass Drug Standardisation studies (Physico-chemical, Pharmacognostic and Pharmacologic studies), Drug Proving, Clinical Verification, Clinical Research, Fundamental/Basic Research and Literary Research. The areas of research programmes have been so chosen that the outcome of the research can benefit the common man and also aid in clinical practice of Homoeopathy thereby benefiting the profession. The Council has in its clinical research programme laid emphasis to the diseases important from national health point of view. In order to attain quality research, protocols have been designed on the lines of modern science without compromising with the doctrines of Homoeopathy. Due importance has also been given to provide medical aid, by way of research, to the people living in rural, tribal and far-flung areas.

Since Evidence Based Research is the need of the hour, the Council has also taken up Collaborative / Fundamental research jointly with the Institutes of Excellence in allied sciences More over there is need to explore the mechanism of action of Homoeopathic medicines.

In order to convince the votaries of conventional science, in-vivo and in-vitro studies are essential to show that Homoeopathic medicines in high dilutions do possess biological activity. Council is moving in these directions.