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“I really do believe that western medicine has a place. In other words, the diagnostic tools that we have at our disposal in allopathic medicine are very valuable. And when I see a patient, if I feel that I need to do some diagnostic procedures, I will.

“In allopathic medicine, it’s important to have a diagnosis to know what you’re dealing with, so you can figure out how you’re going to go about fixing it. Where it’s really limited is when you have chronic conditions that seem to take over a person’s body – and in taking over a person’s body, taking over a person’s life. In those situations, allopathic medicine has a very poor track record in bringing about a cure or an eradication of the condition.

“Today, many people are conscious of the fact that our world is really very sick. Our waters are polluted - even the food we eat is, half the time, full of chemicals. The land in which we grow the food is sick. And when we use chemicals to treat disease, we’re just making the situation worse.

“We live in cities that are polluted, and even allopathic doctors today recognize that the epidemiology of disease is really becoming alarming.

Overview

Nigerian-born Ifeoma Ikenze, MD, is a practitioner and national advocate for homeopathy.

Dr. Ikenze began her career as an allopathic (western) doctor and made the transition to homeopathic remedies after studying the teachings of Samuel Hahnemann, an 18th-century German physician who is the founder of modern homeopathy. Dr. Hahnemann believed that medical problems could be relieved by taking tiny doses of the natural substance that actually caused symptoms and he began extensive experiments on the curative properties of a wide variety of ingredients from the natural world.