Dr. Ramanlal P. Patel is one of the last living exponents of a generation of homeopaths which soon will have ceased to exist. Among his teachers were personal disciples of Kent, such as Sir John Weir and Arthur Grimmer, the two discoverers of carcinosin Foubister and Templeton, and legends like Otto Leeser, Pierre Schmidt, or Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard. Having practiced as a physician for 50 years, he is rooted in this school, while commanding a formidable experience. Yet his initiation to homeopathy has taken place twice, since he had fallen sick himself, developing a fibrosarcoma that forced him to undergo several surgical operations between 1960 and 1964 and which finally metastasized to the lungs in 1966. He consulted hospitals in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the US, but every physician he met would confirm that conventional medicine didn’t offer any hope of recovery. However, he was saved by Hahnemann’s close study of chronical diseases and his conception of miasms. “The mere fact of being still alive is something I owe to nothing else but homeopathy, and this is why I wish to give back to homeopathy as much as I can”, he uses to say. Even without this episode in the story of his life, we get the feel of his truly extraordinary personality. Quite understandably, as a practitionner he is primarily concerned with severe and critical conditions and, as a response to his personal experience, especially with cancer patients. Indian homeopaths enjoy much freedom in exercising their art, since every patient has to pay himself for any treatment and many cannot afford an expensive chemotherapy.
Dr. Anton Rohrer

“In 50 years of my homeopathic carreer I have travelled eight times around the world, meeting hundreds of homeopaths at seminars, conferences, and congresses, yet in the whole world I found only a handful of homeopaths following Hahnemann’s successful miasm theory. The complete remainder of those I would call the ‘average homeopaths’,of those who practice a general homeopathy, do miss the goal of healing chronic miasms.”