Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we're going to be exploring homeopathy which has been around for a long time hundreds of years and we have one of the experts in the United States,

Dana Allman who's written quite a bit about it and really is dedicated

significant portion of his professional life to practicing homeopathy.

So welcome and thank you for joining us, Dan.

My pleasure.

Real deep pleasure.

So perhaps you can give our viewers a history of how you got interested in this field and a little bit about

your journey into health and healing. Great. Well my father is a medical doctor he was a

pediatrician and an allergist. There's a little bit of

cosmic irony there because allergy is that use of very small doses of what people are allergic to to help desensitize them.

And then I remember when I was young,

my father got me one of those little children's medical kits

with a little stethoscope, a little reflex thing that my older brother took to hit me on my health head to test my reflexes.

And it even had a little bottle of sugar pills in it. So I've been prescribing these

sugar pills ever since. But it was when I was a junior at UC Berkeley where I was beginning to explore different natural therapies,

nutrition, body therapies, botanical medicine, and I got introduced to homeopathy and what ended up happening

was is a Stanford trained doctor and a male midwife began to create a group of people to study

homeopathy together.

This was the back in the beginning of 1973.

And it became three doctors, two nurses,

two yoga teachers, a dentist, and several lay people and we met weekly for five years.

And then towards the end of that I was honored to be arrested for practicing medicine without a

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