Acta Otorhinolaryngol Belg. 1984 ; 38(2): 208-11.

[Homeopathy as seen by a nonhomeopathic otorhinolaryngologist]

Schepens Y.

After 50 years of medical practice, I have widened my horizon and am interested in any method that can relieve a patient's suffering. Be it an official or a parallel therapy. If Homeopathy is more and more successful it is because of the many failures in official medicine (Allopathy), especially regarding chronic diseases. Certain patients who are intoxicated by all sorts of drugs, consult the homeopath in search of cure. The homeopath believes that the general symptoms incriminated by experimental intoxication are the same as those manifested by the sick person, and they therefore prescribe the same medecine to obtain the cure. It is the methode of "similars". For example when a patient who has not been intoxicated by Belladonna presents the same symptoms of intoxication, Belladonna is prescribed by the homeopath. What is to be thought of Homeopathy? If we have not studied and experimented it sufficiently, it is illogical to criticise it. Prejudice is the practitioner's greatest enemy. To study Homeopathy is extremely arduous and requires daily study, because for Homeopathy even more than any other medical method: "One must study every day, because one forgets every day".