What are homeopathic remedies?!


Question: What are homeopathic remedies.?
I don't understand what they are - would a homeopathic version of something have the same effect as the actual thing.?
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Homeopathic remedies are essentially useless placebo pills (though I'm not denying the placebo response...it is a highly evolved physiological reaction of the body to various triggers).

Homepathy is based on the unproven idea that "like cures like" For example, if you have an upset stomach, a homeopath would recommend giving you a remedy that causes upset stomach. However, they give it to you in a tiny concentration. Actually, for most of the common dilutions of homeopathic potions, they are so dilute, that there is no mathematical possibility of there being a single molecule of the active ingredient left in the water or alcohol diluent. A drop of this is then placed on a starch tablet, and is sold to the consumer.

So in answer to your question, a homeopathic version of a real drug..lets say acetominophen or penicillin...would do nothing at all. This is fact.Health Question & Answer

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Homeopathy simply explained

What is Homeopathy.?
Homeopathy is an effective system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognises that symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.

In 1796, a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning 'similar suffering'). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier, he realised there were two ways of treating ill health: the way of opposites, most commonly used by conventional medicine and the way of similars.

Hahnemann discovered that diluting and succussing (shaking) remedies, which homeopaths call potentisation, not only produced fewer side effects but also produced better results. Homeopathic remedies are drawn from the natural world and prescribed on the principle of treating

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