I don't want to forbid homoeopathy. I don't want to forbid anything. I want people to be well informed and make up their own choices. And that's precisely what we did. And eventually, the message was received at the level of the NHS, and they said, “Okay, we better stop that.” And as I said, today we don't have a single homoeopathic hospital.

This dynamism and this treatment methodology are related to what was common to multiple other treatment methodologies. So Hanman brought this idea into homoeopathy, and he clubbed it with this similia similibus, that is, like cures like.

Our first edition of Rationable Interviews features Dr Shantanu Abhyankar, a gynaecologist and a sceptic activist. We speak about his journey from homoeopathy to mainstream medicine, the relationship between Ayurveda and homoeopathy, and his work as an activist.

There are college degrees for it, doctors prescribe it, and infants and animals are said to benefit from it too! But does homoeopathy really work? As I found out, it kind of does, but not in the way you think.