The field of medicine is in a definite crisis situation, and not only in terms of health care. People are not only exposed to harmful agents in the air they breathe, the water they drink, and the food they eat, but also to the harmful effects of medications and potential treatments. Many questions may cross the minds of doctors and patients when confronted with the idea of ​​treatment. Why do patients so often weigh the benefits of a potential treatment against the harm it may cause? How can doctors and patients assess the risks of a particular treatment when the manufacturers themselves are not fully aware of them? When people get the flu or a cold, some may wait. Many might rush to their doctor's office, where they are usually prescribed an antibiotic. Others may turn to remedies provided by their local homeopath, a professional in an alternative system of medicine called homeopathy. To better understand the risks associated with using homeopathic practices or allopathic (conventional) medicine, it is best to understand the goals of each medical practice. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, created homeopathy in 1796, although the concept of the system dates back to that time. of Hippocrates. Hahnemann became a member of the medical profession at a time when radical medical methods were being used that debilitated patients with no apparent benefit, such as bloodletting, enemas, and other derivative measures (Koehler, 1989). Based on the "like cures like" principle, whereby a substance can cause symptoms in a healthy person, it can then create similar self-healing symptoms in a sick person ("What is like?" 'homeopathy?', 2002). the living organism follows an inherent law of life to const...... middle of article ......conventional medicine, the testing, selection and action of a homeopathic medicine always covers symptoms of body, mind and spirit and these are always considered as a whole (Koehler, 1989). One of the reasons for the growing popularity of homeopathy was its apparent success in treating people suffering from outbreaks of infectious diseases. In the 19th century, mortality rates in homeopathic hospitals were often lower than those in conventional hospitals, where the treatments used at the time were often harmful and failed to combat disease. During the 1918 influenza pandemic, it was reported that "24,000 cases of influenza treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of influenza treated homeopathy had a mortality rate of 1 .05%” (Lebensorger, 2002). Many professionals and scientists are skeptical of the use of homeopathic medicines because of the way they are created.