A ‘kingdoms’ approach to parasites; with some philosophy
By Jenni Tree
For The Homeopath, April 2009.

"A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it.

If you take a ‘kingdoms’ approach to homeopathy, it may well be that you consider parasites to belong to a particular kingdom. Exploring synonyms for the word parasite brings up expressions such as: vermin, lice, bedbug, leech, bloodsucker, scrounger, freeloader, hanger-on, sponger. We see that, on the whole, the human ideal of a parasite comes from the insect kingdom. We sometimes manage to overlook the plant kingdom, which possesses about 15 families of parasitic plants, including the Viscaceae and Loranthaceae."