<human>: The reason I ask is that when talking to one of my Mechanical Engineering professors, he went off on one of his typical but interesting tangents and told us about his experiences with homeopathy. I would like it to be noted that this is an incredibly high-functioning and intelligent man we are talking about, not some run of the mill person who happens to have a doctorate.

He told us he has been colour-blind all his life, and that when he mentioned this to his homeopathist he was given a mixture to take. After a few hours began to see reds and blues and later that night he even hallucinated in colour (through dreaming or some other means, I'm not sure).

He further told us that what got him into this form of "medicine" was that he went to a homeopathist out of desperation for a cough he had been plagued with for tow years, and the cough was gone once taking the prescribed treatment. He went on to mention something about tablets under the tongue curing a soldering iron burn on his finger in 6 hours, witnessed by the employees in his factory.

Another fact that I am yet to research was his mention of a sickness where 50% of those treated by scientific/traditional medicine (time period dependant) died and only 15% of those treated by homeopathic medicine died. He said it had been hushed up.

Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?
<bot>: High-functioning and intelligent professor in engineering prefers homeopathy over modern medicine because of what it has done for him.