Nicolas Cooley: Homeopathic Medicine was devised at a time when there was very little scientific basis in general medicine, its principles is that you treat like with like, so in other words a substance was used in the preparation that mimicked the illness, these substances are then diluted many times to a point that there isn't a single molecule of the active ingredients left, they believe that water retains the memory of the ingredient and in fact the more dilutions increase the power of the cure, this of course is total rubbish and goes against just about every scientific principle, the only effect that it achieves is one of placebo, regular drugs and medicine have to show that they have an effect far exceeding placebo, I can't tell anyone how to spend their money after all a fool and their money is soon parted, but it is purely a lifestyle choice, it has no place in real medicine and can be bloody dangerous because its purveyors claim it can cure everything from cance! r to HIV, thankfully at least in the UK and most of Europe it has been largely discredited....Show more
Willa Holte: Homeopathy is pseudoscience which does nothing.It has no scientific backing. At least nutrition and herbs have some!
Armando Somes: HERBS AND VITAMINS ARE NOT HOMEOPATHIC. To make a homeopathic medicine, they take a part of the plant and soak it in purified water, then mix with (usually) brandy, then they continue to dilute it hundreds of times - to the point that 'there is none of the plant detected' in the completed remedy. Homeopathic medicine seems to work better for people that don't have 'normal' reactions to regular medicines (example: someone who takes Nyquil nighttime formula to sleep during a cold, but instead, it keeps them awake). I have used homeopathic remedies for 20 years and they work really well on me, my husband and my youngest daughter, but don't work well for my older daughter.Examples of homeopathic medicine that you could ! find in a drugstore (like CVS or RiteAid): OSCILLOCOCCINUM (fo! r flu) SIMILISAN (various remedies for eye allergies, red eyes, styes and others).A homeopathic remedy is supposed to use the plants original 'medicinal' qualities but backwards, by reducing the amount of that quality. There is a plant called ARNICA that if taken internally is toxic but can be used externally for bruising, HOMEOPATHICALLY, arnica is made into an homeopathic remedy that can be taken internally for bruising (like bruised ribs) because there is no detectable parts of the arnica plant in the homeopathic remedy.I hope this makes sense to you. good luck...Show more
Asley Quickle: Homeopathic Medicine are not herbs and nor vitamins. It is based on liquid and plants such as water, alcohol and plants etc.
Romana Stiman: Homeopathy's based on its inventor, Hahnemann's, ideas. He believed in two basic principles- one was that 'like cures like' and the other was that 'the less of something you have the stronger it is.'Basically you feed people something, s! ee what they report, and then give it for stuff that looks like that (not stuff with the same causes). If you give a medicine and it causes vomiting, you give it highly diluted when you want to stop someone vomiting. Sometimes they give people the diluted stuff, see what they report, and then give it to make people like that.Because the more diluted it is the more 'effective' it is, they dilute it to serious amounts. There's a bit of other stuff, like it has to be 'sucussed' (which he did by banging it against a bible a lot of times, because his experience was that medicines were better when they were shaken when he travelled along bumpy roads). The dilutions are measured in C, D, or M. C means that you take one part of the medicine and dilute it in one hundred parts of water. You then take one part of that mix, and dilute it again in another hundred parts of water. The number of times it's diluted depends on the number the dilution is, so for a 10C dilution you do that 10! times. So a 12c dilution, to take a commonly-used example, is roughly! equivalent to one pinch of salt dissolved in the Atlantic ocean. For D or X it's one part in ten parts. D or X dilutions are weaker- it's believed that the more you dilute a remedy the stronger it is.You can make vitamins or herbs into homeopathic remedies- by diluting them lots and lots and lots of times- but they are not in themselves homeopathic. You can make anything into a homeopathic remedy. Homeopathic remedies have been made 'from' x-rays, moonlight, duck liver, electricity, and the north pole of a magnet. But a vitamin, or a herb preparation, is not homeopathic unless it's diluted like that. If it has enough vitamins in it to act as a supplement, for example, it's not homeopathic. Homeopathic vitamins would presumably be taken if you had too much of a vitamin and were getting sick from it. Watch out because there's a lot of stuff falsely advertised as homeopathic. I've seen a few rip-offs like that, particularly 'homeopathic herbs' and such, when you read the bott! le and it turns out it's just a herbal remedy....Show more
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