Homeopathy is a “therapy” based mostly on the use of extremely diluted substances, which practitioners declare can cause the physique to heal itself. Regarding your comments on claims made for homeopathy: criticisms centered across the vanishingly small number of solute molecules present in an answer after it has been repeatedly diluted are beside the point, since advocates of homeopathic remedies attribute their effects not to molecules current in the water, but to modifications of the water’s construction.

Skeptics of homeopathy insist that homeopathic medicines do not work, but have issue explaining how so many individuals use and depend upon this technique of medicine to treat themselves for therefore many acute and persistent ailments; and a really large variety of these people do not have to make use of anything else.

Supporters of homeopathy level to two unconventional theories: like cures like”—the notion that a illness may be cured by a substance that produces comparable symptoms in healthy individuals; and regulation of minimal dose”—the notion that the lower the dose of the treatment, the greater its effectiveness.

The name homeopathy is derived from two Greek phrases that mean “like illness.” The system is predicated on the idea that substances that produce symptoms of sickness in wholesome individuals can have a healing impact when given in very dilute portions to sick individuals who exhibit those self same symptoms.

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