Homeopathy: pseudo science really?

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Homeopathic globules

 

Homeopathy is often described as pseudoscience. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on the assumption that a substance that causes a symptom can be used to cure it when used at a very low concentration. So homeopathic remedies consist of substances very diluted in water. So diluted that the probability to find a single molecule of the original substance in the final product is almost 0. It is said that the water keeps the memory of the substance and that this memory has the desired curative effect. The patient may drink some of this water, or alternatively swallow some tiny globules that have similar properties.

What a lot of rubbish, I thought…

Until that day many years ago when I managed to catch chicken pox at the age of 40+. I went to see a doctor who diagnosed me and promptly sent me into confinement for 2 weeks. Chicken pox is caused by a virus, extremely contagious and there is no known remedy for it. Only a vaccine. Sounds familiar?

My lovely neighbour Meryl got wind of all this. She was studying homeopathy then. She just gave me a small tube with lots of very small globules in it. Swallow 10 of them every 4 hours or so during the day, she said. What followed was interesting. The horrible itching stopped within 20 minutes of the first dose, then all the blisters and symptoms disappeared in a couple of days.

Just sayin'...


References

Wikipedia demolition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy


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