Does your homeopathic Dr. explain to you what your treatment consists of?!
Question: Does your homeopathic Dr. explain to you what your treatment consists of.?
I am curious to know if Dr.s who practice homeopathy actual explain the theories behind it to their patients. What do they say.? I'm all for natural healing and I know many herbs and natural substances really do contain healing and curative properties, but NOT when used in this manner.
Homeopathy is founded upon two completely unfounded and unscientific principals: The first is the "Law of Similarities', which presumes that something which produces certain symptoms in an otherwise healthy person will be useful to treat diseases that have those same symptoms. ie. jalapeno peppers used for the treatment of excessive sweating.
The second principle: the Law of Infinitesimals. This presumes that the more dilute a substance is, the better it will work. There are two sorts of dilution in common use - X and C. To make an X dilution, you take one tenth of the sample and mix it with nine parts of diluent. To make a 10X preparation, the dilution process is carried out ten times, each time taking one tenth of the mixture and diluting it. At each stage, the mixture is "succussed", which means to hit or tap which is supposed to "activate" the sample. Preparations can be made at 6X, 10X etc. More "powerful" preparations can be made using the C method, where the dilution is one in a hundred each time.
Does this not sound silly.? Under this theory wouldn't cyanide be a great candidate as a death preventative.?
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Homeopathy is founded upon two completely unfounded and unscientific principals: The first is the "Law of Similarities', which presumes that something which produces certain symptoms in an otherwise healthy person will be useful to treat diseases that have those same symptoms. ie. jalapeno peppers used for the treatment of excessive sweating.
The second principle: the Law of Infinitesimals. This presumes that the more dilute a substance is, the better it will work. There are two sorts of dilution in common use - X and C. To make an X dilution, you take one tenth of the sample and mix it with nine parts of diluent. To make a 10X preparation, the dilution process is carried out ten times, each time taking one tenth of the mixture and diluting it. At each stage, the mixture is "succussed", which means to hit or tap which is supposed to "activate" the sample. Preparations can be made at 6X, 10X etc. More "powerful" preparations can be made using the C method, where the dilution is one in a hundred each time.
Does this not sound silly.? Under this theory wouldn't cyanide be a great candidate as a death preventative.?
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My thoughts on homeopathy are well known to this board, so I won't reiterate what you have already expressed.
As to your question, I don't know what Homeopaths explain, I've always meant to go to one "anonymously" and see the whole schtick for myself.
I know in general they acknowledge that scientifically, their more dilute preparations don't have a single molecule, which is why they had to invent the magical concept of water having a memory of the substance. (Hahneman didn't come up with that idea, but it had to be added after Avogadro's work a few decades later)Health Question & Answer
As to your question, I don't know what Homeopaths explain, I've always meant to go to one "anonymously" and see the whole schtick for myself.
I know in general they acknowledge that scientifically, their more dilute preparations don't have a single molecule, which is why they had to invent the magical concept of water having a memory of the substance. (Hahneman didn't come up with that idea, but it had to be added after Avogadro's work a few decades later)Health Question & Answer
Homeopathy is as bunk as it sounds. By the main theory of homeopathy, the strongest medicine in the world would be inhaling the air evaporating off of a glass of water that had been breathed upon by someone holding a droplet of super-diluted herb water in their mouth.
Utter garbage.
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Utter garbage.
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Well you say you are all for "natural healing", the thing about homeopathy - if it worked, it would be supernatural. Because there is no known mechanism for it to work, molecular memory of water is completely outside of science and physics.
Many CAM therapies cite mechanisms that are completely undetectable and unmeasurable, and that is always a red flag for quackery. The nail in the coffin though is the failure of such therapies to beat placebo under good quality, independent controlled trials.
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Many CAM therapies cite mechanisms that are completely undetectable and unmeasurable, and that is always a red flag for quackery. The nail in the coffin though is the failure of such therapies to beat placebo under good quality, independent controlled trials.
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When you ask a question, presumably you are open to all answers, but the way you framed your question, all answers in favor of homeopathy will be 'silly' to use your own description. Is such bias justified.?
Have you ever tried homeopathy.? Probably not. If you tried it from a competent homeopath, you would know that it works. How it works is a big question, which even the best homeopaths are not able to answer, but how this universe is formed is a question, which even the best cosmologists are still debating. That does not prevent the universe from existing! Health Question & Answer
Have you ever tried homeopathy.? Probably not. If you tried it from a competent homeopath, you would know that it works. How it works is a big question, which even the best homeopaths are not able to answer, but how this universe is formed is a question, which even the best cosmologists are still debating. That does not prevent the universe from existing! Health Question & Answer