what is homeopathy? how does homeopathy work?!


Question: What is homeopathy? how does homeopathy work?
what is the principle behind homeopathy? does it work? If so, how does it work?

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Homeopaths, especially in this forum, claim they can cure anything and everything. However in reality homeopathy has never been shown to work for any condition, because it is literally nothing but water or sugar pills.... homeopathy contains no active ingredients.

Once you look into it you see that homeopathy is absurd nonsense, based on superstitious beliefs - like the more you dilute something, the more potent it becomes. For example, a typical homeopathic 30C potency means a dilution ratio of 10 to the power of 60, about equivalent to 1ml in 1.2 million cubic light years! It will not contain one single molecule of the original ingredient, so it cannot possibly have any physiological effect.

Remedies are selected based on your symptoms; homeopaths believe that ‘like cures like’, so if you have insomnia for example, homeopaths will often give you a remedy made from Coffea, which is made from the coffee bean. It seems they think that recreating the symptoms empowers your body’s ‘vital force’ to expel disease. This concept lacks any scientific basis, supporting factual evidence or coherent rationale.

Not surprisingly, homeopathy has NO good evidence of efficacy. It has never been shown in rigorous studies to have an effect beyond placebo. In the UK, Government health system funding of homeopathy is being withdrawn as homeopathic clinics and hospitals are closing. The country's largest pharmacy retailer has admitted it doesn't work and scientists have called it witchcraft.

AVOID.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy



Homeopathy is an outdated belief invented a long time ago.

Homeopathy does not work. No clinical trials have ever shown it can work.

The 'principle' behind homeopathy was dreamt up one day; it was not developed or discovered and has no plausible mechanism. Science shows (and homeopaths agree) that it is just water, with no active ingredients.

Why is it still around? Because homeopaths make a living out of those without any scientific education, training or knowledge. Homeopathy is slowly dying out as people become more educated about such hoaxes.

Homeopathy is not used in hospitals or advised by doctors because it is an outdated belief. Homeopathy is NOT medicine, it cannot treat or cure any illness.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela…



The principle is "Similia Similibus Curentur" i,e "Likes are cured by likes" i.e "Diamond cuts diamond"

It does work and miraculously. Only Homoeopathy cures rapidly, gently and permanently.

"Everyday Miracles of Homoeopathy" by Dr. Vijayalakshmi.

"Organon of Medicine" by Dr. Hahnemann.

"Lectures on Philosophy of Homoeopathy" by Dr. J.T.Kent.



Homeopathy began in the late 1700s, developed by a German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann. It was developed as an alternative to the then pre-scientific conventional medicine of the day such as bloodletting, and other practices designed to balance the body’s four “humours” which were thought to be: phlegm; blood; yellow bile; and black bile.

Hahnemann was disillusioned with the often severe treatments that were being used and was looking for a more natural way to treat illnesses. He was quite a rebel in his day causing much controversy in promoting homeopathy, which was never accepted by the medical community. Homeopathy did become more popular though; not surprising when the conventional medicine of the day used bloodsucking leeches, Arsenic, Mercury, Lead, and other practices that today we would think of as barbaric.

Today, homeopathy is still considered a form of alternative medicine. The concept is that substances that cause symptoms in healthy people, such as raw onions causing sore, tearful eyes, can be used in extreme dilution to treat illnesses which cause the same symptoms. In this example, extract of raw onion could be used as an ingredient (extremely diluted) in a remedy to treat colds, flu, or other illnesses that produce the same symptoms.

Hahnemann believed that life depends on an invisible and undetectable 'vital force' which runs through the body (vitalism) which if disturbed will lead to illness or disease. His remedies, he believed, restored balance to the disrupted vital force therefore allowing the body to heal itself.

Homeopathy is meant to be an individualised treatment - or a holistic approach to medicine. This means that every remedy should be individually tailor-made to suit the patient by the homeopath after having ascertained the patient's symptom profile; symptoms, to a homeopath, being anything such as personal and social interactions, dreams, emotional issues, as well as physical symptoms of disease or illness.



Homeopathy is derived from 2 Greek words meaning similar suffering. It is predicated on the priniciple that "like cures like". It works by stimulating your body to heal itself. The body of evidence is 25,000 volumes of cured cases. In addition there are about 200 relatively recent scientific studies that support it's effectiveness. It is the second most used form of medicine worldwide, used by tens of millions of people.
http://www.homeopathic.org/



Daniel Baum answered your question about homeopathic principles.

I would like to add that homeopathy works by stimulating the immune system to heal the patient naturally. It does this by presenting to the body, through the use of the correct remedy, a "picture" of the patient's symptoms whether they are physical, mental or emotional.

When you use conventional drug treatment the drug changes the body and can decrease symptoms. Drug treatment does not cure the underlying cause of the patient's symptoms.

Homeopathy can and does heal the body, mind and emotions. Homeopathy can cure many chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes by stimulating natural healing. For case records of homeopathic cures please see www.hpathy.com (search "Dr. Bhatia diabetes", "Ask the Doctor" and "clinical cases") or google "homeopathy cured cases".

My experience of many years in using homeopathy is that it has worked beautifully to heal chronic and acute illnesses, injuries and the discomfort of dental work. I use it with my animals and see their health problems resolved quickly.



don`t believe in the nihilistic answers.
Look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNMgxBDaGQ
kind regards
Stephan

www.vithoulkas.com



1. Nonsense.
2. It does not.
3. Like cures like.
4. Again, no it does not.
5. Doesn't work.




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