Homeopathy Cured Her Disease, Now She’s Fighting for More Access | Paola Brown

American Thought Leaders · May 9, 2026 · 33m

Paola Brown first turned to homeopathy, a form of alternative medicine based on the principle of “like cures like,” after many years of suffering from unbearable bladder pain. She had been diagnosed with interstitial cystitis, a disease with no known cure.

She jokes that homeopaths are called “the doctors of last resort,” and for her, they were exactly that.

When she went to see one for the first time, among the first things she asked her doctor was: “‘Do I need to believe in this? Because I don’t.’ And my homeopath says: ‘No, you don’t have to believe in this. I just need to find the right…