In January 2013 Dr. Matheny became aware of the work of Dr. Prasanta Banerji, Kolkata, India through his conference "Homeopathy for Serious Illness"  Dr. Matheny was able to contact Dr. Banerji and arrange to be a visitor and observer at his practice in Kolkata, India for a 2-week period in May and June, 2013.  Here are some of Dr. Matheny's comments and observations:  

 

Dr. Banerji has had amazing and incredible results with homeopathic treatment for many serious chronic diseases, including cancer, as described on his website:  www.pbhrfindia.org.   His work with cancer has been looked at, with cured cases verified by the MD Anderson Center in Texas.  Their assessment was that his work had enough validity to initiate formal research assessments.  At least 2 scientific papers have been published looking at some of his approaches.    This degree of acknowledgement of homeopathy by the conventional scientific community is, I believe, unprecedented.

 

Dr. Banerji himself is an amazing and inspiring person.   Located in downtown Kolkata (Calcutta), he has been in practice for over 55 years, having inherited a tradition of homeopathic practice from his father, and from his grandfather, who was one of the original homeopathic practitioners in India in the mid 1800's.    Dr. Banerji sees patients without regard as to whether or not they can pay.  He personally sees up to 100 patients per day.  Yes, its true, I actually saw him in action:  on an average day he sees somewhere around 100 patients.  

 

The patients he sees mostly have serious illness, such as cancer or some type of organ failure, including liver failure, renal failure, heart failure, lung failure.   During my 2- week visit, I observed him treating at least 75 brain tumor cases, 20 or more breast cancers, 50 or more head/neck cancers, 15 blood cancers, 10 soft tissue sarcomas... and much more.    In 2 hours sitting beside his desk, my head was spinning!

 

And the majority of his patients appeared to be showing improvement.  Dr. Banerji has a staff which