Italian Social Movement

ABSTRACT: If we continue to fail to provide laws regulating Homoeopathy there is the danger of disadvantage because we thus complicate that activity and consequently providing no clarity in the practice of Homoeopathy itself.

(Papers of the Transnational Conference: "THE HOMOEOPATIC REMEDY-NON-MEDICINE. A PROPOSAL FOR RECOGNITION" - Rome 12th and 13th december 1988).

I am a stranger here, an intruder, because I am a hospital doctor, a head physician. Thus I am an allopath, but all this must take me, as a scientist and as a politician, to look onto reality without however relinquishing the imagination and curiosity which I believe a human being should have throughtout his existence, meant as a going along together.

Moreover, I have not come to this meeting to discuss or contrast or urged by some transgressive will, but for a realistic confrontation with a reality, that is with an existing condition with which we doctors have to live.

What I have to say may perhaps seem transgressive, but with great honesty I must say that in my department there is a doctor, an assistant of mine, who practices Homoeopathy and far from sending him away, I hold him in great esteem and when something goes wrong with my official medicine I turn to him for advice. I do not know whether this will cost me something, but I do not really care, because I believe that particular conditions reflectiong a reality must be defended. Therefore a pent up attitude has no reason to exist.

I now wish to enter the political aspect because we have a Bill of Law and we must thus be coherent to the end; and I sincerely say that this Bill of Law has been submitted with the cultural honesty I acknowledge the Radicals.

I must also state that the two therapeutic activities are now complementary and even integrated and aim at the same end in view of recovering the patient's health or at least assist in this recovery. This is the goal we are here for; not to divide, but to reach this conclusive condition to which medicine, no matter which, must aim.

If we continue not to give Homoeopathy a regulation we run the risk of damage because we are complicating an activity and this will bring no clarity to Homoeopathy itself.

Thus, as an act of honesty, I must obey to what I have said and obey it to the end, arguing over it, of course, looking for an agreement on a law which may rapidly lead to this acknowledgement, necessary and already on the threshold. I obey an ethic idea of the right to health which is a natural concept.

We have the same cultural background; therefore I shall do my best for this alignment between Allopathy and Homoeopathy, for an acknowledgement which actually already exists. There is no hypocrisy in the attitude with which the contemporary presence of this other medicine which is in fact already prescribed by doctor colleagues, and used by consumers who buy it at the chemist's. Of course, regulation means depurating it of certain debatable aspects.

Humanity's first thousand years ended in epidemics, ignorance, superstitions and few Remedies were available for one's health besides faith. The second thousand years is endind with a devastating epidemic and this tells us how weak man still is and how necessary interventions are. Of course, neither medicine will be able to find somethinf really efficacious in the short run, but we shall have to conquer this terrible A.I.D.S. epidemic which is constantly increasing. We shall also have to improve mankind, its living conditions in view of the third thousand years.

For the W.H.O., the year 2000, will be the year of health for everybody. This is what we must wish each other, health, equal for all, and not only as an ethic expression but as cooperation and regulation.

We must, of course, mention that in Italy there is a law of a sanitary reform which has not fully responded to our demands, but is cannot be refused and must simply be applied to reach the common aim which we all have set, all together for life.