To critics, its mysteries are only Just short of quackery. To the cured, they are only just this side of miracles.
Homoeopathy is at least as old as orthodox medicine and enjoys royal patronage. Its remedies are derived wholly from natural sources; some of them are startling - poisonous plants, even venomous snakes. Yet its practitioners - all doctors who must first qualify in orthodox medicine - are unable to explain how some of these remedies work. But, they ask, does that really. matter? After all, no one quite knows how an aspirin works either ...
Jeremy James examines the arguments and talks to homoeopathists, their patients (many of whom have tried everything else) and even a homoeopathic vet who points out that sick animals are unlikely to be cured by suggestion or fooled by mere placebos.
Film cameraman ELMER COSSEY Film editor PETER EVANS
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