Rudolph Ballentine

Homeopathy is an alternative remedy based on the premise that a patient will be cured if he or she is given minute doses of natural substances that in larger quantities would produce symptoms of the disease being treated. In the following viewpoint, Rudolph Ballentine asserts that homeopathic medicine is effective in treating numerous diseases. However, Ballentine argues that mainstream medical scientists and doctors refuse to accept the results of many studies that have proven homeopathy’s effectiveness. Ballentine is the chief medical advisor of the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center in New York City and a professor of psychiatry at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to the author, what are the effects of belladonna?
2. How does Ballentine support his contention that homeopathy is scientific?
3. How did Calcarea mur affect...