• I STRONGLY disagree with David Reed (Claims made for homeopathy are a nonsense, October 26).

I do agree that a molecule is a molecule. Even the dentist uses light to harden the tooth filling. Years ago that would have been laughed at!

The Queen, Prince Charles, and Nelson Rockefeller in America, believed in homeopathy. And the Queen is going pretty strong for her age.

I know this is anecdotal evidence but it has often helped me. It stopped chronic tonsillitis when I was a child. It helped the pains from inflammation and arthritis in the early stages for me. I had a low thyroid once, and in a few days of homeopathic pills, I was fine again. And without drugs.

My brother was born with three holes in his heart, wet lungs, and his blood going in the reverse direction, with Downs. He was meant to die in Great Ormond Street hospital two weeks after birth.

Our Dad, Dr AK Boman-Behram, also trained in homeopathy, kept my brother alive for 60 happy years, and without surgery or the help of many allopathic drugs.

Only in his last five years, after our Dad died, did my brother take drugs on a regular basis, prescribed by his GP. But even then the doctor helped him by lessening the bad side effects of those drugs for him.

Homeopathic medicine is usually incredibly low in price compared with the stuff manufactured by the big pharm. And it is pretty rare to get adverse side reactions from it. Therefore I feel there is everything to gain and nothing to lose!

PRIMAVERA BOMAN, NW1