The focus of this book is detoxification, specifically homeopathic detoxification therapy or ‘HDT’. While it has largely been ignored by orthodox Western medicine, detoxification has formed an integral element of traditional healing arts for millennia, employing tools as diverse as herbal emetics, sweat lodges and breathing techniques, and from its inception, homeopathy has been influenced by it. Early pioneers of homeopathy such as Charles Raue, Kelvin B. Knerr and Samuel Lilienthal all referred to the homeopathic treatment of the ‘congestion’ of various bodily organs. William Boericke in his Pocket Materia Medica refers to the ‘centrifugal’ actions of Sulphur and X-ray, and the drainage effects of Hepar sulphuricum. Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg in the mid-20th century gave us his theory of homotoxicology and its correction using ‘homeopathic combinations’. Authors such as Leon Vannier and E.A. Maury wrote extensively on the use of homeopathy for detoxification around the same era. Developments later in that century bred practices such as ‘Homeovitics’, which used five different potencies of the same medicine for the purpose of detoxification. Following this, Michael Bouko Levy published a repertory of drainage remedies and almost every purveyor of ‘homeopathic’ combination products has offered us items for the purpose of detoxification. Our current homeopathic literature therefore already has quite a lot to say on the subject of detoxification.