Homeopathic medicine

I just learned about homeopathic medicine.

I thought that this was some sort of alternative natural approach to medicine, using traditional herbs and that kinda stuff. Sounds pretty OK, as long as you're careful.

Boy, was I wrong.

Here's Wikipedia's quick summary:

"Homeopathic practitioners contend that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. According to homeopaths, serial dilution, with shaking between each dilution, removes the toxic effects of the remedy while the qualities of the substance are retained by the diluent (water, sugar, or alcohol). The end product is often so diluted that materially it is indistinguishable from pure water, sugar or alcohol."

So, apparently, homeopathic medicines are produced by taking a small amount of something that can produce symptoms similar to the illness itself and then diluting it hundreds of times so that the final product doesn't actually contain any of what you started with.

Homeopathic "medicines" are marketed with dilution numbers, such as 30x or 200K or some such. A 200K dilution means that a 1% solution has been diluted 1:100 two hundred times. That means that the final solution contains (1/100)^200 of whatever amount you start with. That's a number with four hundred zeroes after the decimal point before you get to a real number.

Read that again and let it sink in.


This is absolutely bats*** f***ing insane. What the hell kind of thought process would actually lead anyone to think that this kind of BS would actually do anything!?

Before this post, I too thought I knew what homeopathy was. Guess not!

As far as using something that can produce symptoms similar to the illness....don't some (maybe all? I have know clue)vaccines work that way?

Vaccines work because they contain a relatively small amount of a pathogen (that's often inactivated) that your body will respond and build an immunity to.

i have fibromyalgia and i my sisters friend who does this makes me a solution that when i rub it in,it totally takes the pain away,i also do reiki on my self and others and dont charge any money cos i believe alternative healing should be free but i always tell people to continue with the drs recommendations. x

Well.... it seems to work. So what's so bats*** f***ing insane about that?

Dr Dawkins illustrated the strength of homeopathic medicine by adding 2 drops into the sea. It pretty much summed it up.

No better than placebos.

people believe any s*** lol

i think basically people have accepted the concept of a vaccine and homeopathy manipulates that fact and says the principle will work for anything from a headache to cancer.
twisted morons who have no concept of science in my opinion.

Well, I don't know much about it but it's worked for people I know. Meh.

i have used it and it has worked for me, i am a beliver in it.