Homeopathy may be the most controversial but also the most popular alternative medicine While some argue against is others sweat by its great power and effectiveness. How does homeopathy work. How did it become what it is today and what can modern medicine learn from it.
The first principle of homeopathy is of like cures like remedies using gradients that cause the symptoms you want to kill in practice that means that remedies against fever could for example be made from Bella Donna which also causes fever a mixture based from B. venom is used to treat it she swellings and so on the second principle is a special method of preparation called potentials ation The idea is that diluting and agitating the ingredients activates their curative powers and in Hans's their effect to do this the ingredient is dissolved in alcohol or distilled water homeopaths take one part of the solution and mix it with nine parts of water diluting it down to one tenth of its original concentration and shaking it. What you have now is a one X. post and see one part of gritty into an mind part solvent named after the Roman numeral effects for ten. Now this process is repeated take one part mix it with nine parts of pure water and shake it vigorously now you have two X. you do this again and again until you reach the desired great of potency the finished remedy is then taken orally or sometimes it's applied as little sugar packets that are sold as globe.
A twenty X. potency for example is like dissolving one aspirin pill in the water volume of the whole Atlantic.
But many are much more extreme like thirty C. for example C. means that the mixture has one parting greedy and and ninety nine parts water so the commonly sold thirty. Means at one parting greedy and and one million a billion billion billion billion billion billion pounds of water if we wanted a global ipo with a single atom of the original ingredients then our pill would be the diameter of the distance between the Earth and the sun one hundred fifty million clauses of hill so massive that it would collapse into a bad cold under its own mass because of its potential as one of the biggest criticisms of homeopathy the extreme dilution is supposed to make the ingredients more potent but on a physical level this doesn't really make sense most homeopathic remedies are diluted so much that not a single atom of the active ingredient is left in them the explanation of why the mixtures still work is that shaking the mixture off to every dilution leaves behind a spirit like essence of the ingredient basically the idea is that water remembers what was put into it but if this were true then every substance that ever met a drop of water would leave the essence behind and lead to unpredictable effects when it was accidentally ingested. Think of all the stuff that lives in the oceans every sip of water would be a super charged homeopathic cocktail So how did homeopathy become the most successful alternative medicine.
In the eighteenth century medicine was very different from today treatments like bloodletting left the patient are worse off than before.
Physicians are more wanted a noninvasive natural way of healing and developed homeopathy and in fact homeopathic hospitals was soon successful because of doing no harm beats doing home. Imposed very strict rules on his patients first you had to avoid coffee.
Spicy food sweet fruit no cheese no one.
No clothes made from sheep's wool but also no sedentary work though sitting inside in stuffy no warm rooms no riding horses no napping no. Playing games.
And of course no reading pornographic texts and many more then and only then would his read his work according to the inventor of homeopathy.
Of course all of these instructions are ignored and talked about today medicine has changed a lot in the last one hundred fifty years never before in human history have we enjoyed a comparable level of health.
Have we lived. And this is the new tools we've developed modern diagnostics double blinded studies and scientific evaluation to check and prove which.
Thanks to these tools after countless studies and reviews we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that homeopathy does not have any effect beyond placebo. But even so who cares why it works if it helps people. Maybe you try to help better. Someone The got over a horrible disease using homeopathic remedies and there are plenty of reports of it working for children and animals what do we make of these experiences the placebo effect is very real and not imaginary no matter how small you are.
If people believe that something will help them feel better their trust alone has the desired effect and it's been proven that the placebo effect can be transferred children and animals were parents or keepers and are insured to their emotions if a parent has a lot of trust in a treatment and this can help a child relax and help relieve symptoms This can also be observed with animals who react strongly to the body language cues of the people caring for them.
But the most powerful tool of homeopathy is time bodies are survival machines infections pass on their own after a few days but if you take some remedy when you already feel sick and then start getting better it feels like it did indeed kill you well actually it would have happened anyway the homeopathy industry likes to play the. Big Pharma but the high. Pathic industry is big pharma billions of dollars are made with extreme profit margins the homeopathy industry has its own organizations and fights its enemies as hard as it can a lot of money is on the line globally the market is expected to reach over seventeen billion by two thousand and twenty four. Some critics even argue that the homeopathic industry is bad for public health because it creates distrust unproven medicine the belief in homeopathy correlates with skepticism about vaccinations this can discourage people to seek the help they need when their lives or the lives of their children are on the line but there is actually a key to the success of homeopathy that we could and should copy the first consultation with homeopathy can take hours and is very personal for a patient who's already been on the pilgrimage from doctors a doctor this level of attention and empathy can make a difference to their wellbeing even if the conversation was not the point of the therapy modern medicine is official and it saves a millions of lives each year but it's also a strictly organized system of time budgets force doctors and nurses to deal with lots of patients consultations need to be time efficient diagnoses made quickly treatments fast which can the patients feeling invisible SCAD and left behind this is what modern medicine can learn from homeopathy it meets a human need that has been left unfulfilled we need to make time for the individual can see people not numbers but as important as empathy is it's not a substitute for actual treatment faith can move mountains but sugar water can't cure cancer.
