Homeopathy Today, plenty of medical method are used by professionals to cure humans. These methods have different impacts via different mechanisms to control the development of each disease. One of the most discussed medical method is homeopathy, a medical system based on the belief that the body can cure itself. Those who practice it, use tiny amounts of natural substances, like plants and mineral, to stimulate the healing process. But there are people that doubt their efficacy. On one hand, homeopathy is seemed as a “healthy” method permitting to cure a disease. In fact, homeopathic medicines have no side effects, so they are not harmful to health because they are not chemical things. In addition, children and pregnant women can use these types of medicines without a prescription. Some critics say that its success is merely due to the placebo effect: it refers to the idea that assuming anything that seems to be a “real” medical treatment (like pills, shots...) contain an active substance meant to affect health. Being a not entirely safe treatment, this so-called modern medicine puts people's lives at risk. On the other hand, homeopathic medicines are not always effective because they are alternative medicines, meaning that they reside outside medical science. The problem is that there are people which use homeopathic medicines to cure some chronic illness, without knowing that there is no scientific study that guarantees their healing. There appears to be some anecdotal evidence that it works and supporters think that simply “feeling better” means that the cure works. Looking over the positive and negative aspects considered above, homeopathy is an alternative medicine that could have some benefits, but it leads nowhere in some cases.