is homeopathy as a medical science rational ? or is it just having a placebo effect?

Answer 1

Homeopathy is a rational science. It is hardly a placebo... normal medication time is generally much longer than the allopathy.. becuase, it aims at eliminating the root cause of a problem than just relieving immediate pain.

Answer 2

Personally, I think it's the placebo effect.

LOL I love this part:
Dangers in misguided advice
A 2006 survey by the BBC revealed homeopathic practices which were advising travelers against taking conventional anti-malarial drugs, instead providing them with a homeopathic dilution of quinine. Even the director of the The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital condemned this practice "I'm very angry about it because people are going to get malaria - there is absolutely no reason to think that homeopathy works to prevent malaria and you won't find that in any textbook or journal of homeopathy so people will get malaria, people may even die of malaria if they follow this advice."[100].

Several scientists said the homeopaths' advice was reprehensible and likely to endanger lives. Professor Geoffrey Pasvol, a tropical medicine expert at Imperial College in London was reported as saying "Medical practitioners would be sued, taken to court and found guilty for far less. What this investigation has unearthed is appalling." [101]. Homeopathy can also lead individuals to forgo effective treatments (opportunity costs).

Answer 3

Some of the base assumptions of homeopathy seem to be clearly untrue. Despite this, there have been creditable scientific studies that have linked results greater than the placebo effect to homeopathic solutions that, by calculation, should have contained less than one molecule of the original substance in it.

In all, I would say that if you study it SCIENTIFICALLY, then of course it's rational. Anything you can demonstrate and that can be replicated by others must be. On the other hand, to take all the claims of homeopathy as true without evidence is not scientific in any way.