Epilepsy is as old as mankind. We know the legislations regarding epileptic patients Hammurabi's code, and in ancient Greece it was called "the sacred illness", because, due to the sudden and unexpected characteristic of the phenomenon, people believed that gods or demons possessed the body of the patient. The word epilepsy derives from the Greek and means "somebody taken from above". Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote "Regarding the sacred illness", and four centuries before our age, he said that it was not more sacred than any other illness and that it was located in the brain. In Rome the disease was called "the rally illness" because the fact that any of the attendees had a convulsion was a signal to postpone elections". Epilepsy patients suffer with stigma, prejudice, shame, and fear of the unknown Epilepsy is a brain illness characterized by convulsions, which range from the almost imperceptible ones to the serious and frequent ones. The World Health Organization considers that about 50 millions of people suffer from epilepsy in the world, including 40 millions in underdeveloped countries. Despite such alarming situation, the organization affirms that 70% of the new cases that are diagnosed can be successfully treated, as long as the medications are used correctly. (1) The preferred treatment to epilepsy is the use of drugs. The use of anticonvulsive drugs is efficient in 70% to 80% of the cases. For patient whose epilepsy is refractory to anticonvulsive drugs (20% to 30% of the cases), the indicated treatment is the surgical one. Depend on the type of epilepsy, surgery can be successful in up to 80% of these patients. Surgery has mainly developed from the 1980s with the advance of technology in image examinations. The structural magnetic resonance and the functional one (SPECT), in addition to monitoring in video, allows making an accurate diagnosis of the epileptic focus. However, despite the current medical technology "It is like shooting in the dark and hoping to hit the blank". That's how neurologist Ley Sander, professor of Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at the University College London, defines epilepsy treatment. In all countries, epilepsy represents an important public health problem, not only for its high incidence, but also due to the repercussion of the disease, the recurrence of the crises, besides the suffering of the patients themselves, due to the social restrictions that, most of the times, are unjustified", affirms neurologist Jesus Gomez-Placencia, MD, PhD, Professor at the Dep. of Neurosciences of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.(2) It was Hippocrates (around 460-375 BC) - maybe influenced by Attreya, father of Hindu medicine (and who lived 500 years before him), who began affirming that epilepsy did not have a divine sacred or demoniac origin, but rather it was the brain that was responsible for this decease. And it was only many years later that Galeno (129- about 200 BC) did the first classification of different types of the illness.(3) Despite what affirmed Hippocrates and Galeno, the beliefs around epilepsy as possession, curse or punishment lasted for a long time. Epilepsy, under the optics