Whats homeopathic medicine? How could it possibly work?

Answer 1

Homeopathy
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Homeopathic remedy Rhus toxicodendron, derived from poison ivy.
Homeopathic remedy Rhus toxicodendron, derived from poison ivy.
Alternative medical systems - edit

* Ayurveda
* Chiropractic
* Herbalism
* Homeopathy
* Naturopathic medicine
* Osteopathy
* Traditional Chinese medicine
* Unani

NCCAM classifications [1]

1. Alternative Medical Systems

2. Mind-Body Intervention

3. Biologically Based Therapy

4. Manipulative and body-based methods

5. Energy Therapy
See also
Complementary and alternative medicine
Complementary medicine
Alternative medicine

Homeopathy (also homœopathy or homoeopathy; from the Greek, ὅμοιος, hómoios, "similar" + πάθος, páthos, "suffering" or "disease") is a controversial form of alternative medicine that aims to treat "like with like". Substances, which in large quantities would cause symptoms similar to the disease, are administered in heavily diluted formulations, with shaking at each stage of the dilution. Homeopaths contend that the shaking causes some imprint (or memory) of the diluted substance upon the vehicle, even though in many common homeopathic dilutions no molecules of the original substance are likely to remain.[1] Homeopathy is based on a vitalist world view, which sees the underlying causes of sickness as imbalances in a hypothetical vital force. Proponents claim that homeopathic treatment can harmonize and re-balance the vital force in the body, thus restoring health. This claim is unsupported by modern biology or medicine.[2][3][4][5][6]

Homeopathy traces its origins to the late 18th century when it was founded by German physician Samuel Hahnemann, who noted some similarity of the symptoms of undiluted cinchona bark in healthy individuals with those of malaria, which it is used to treat. Hahnemann decided that an effective drug must produce the symptoms in healthy individuals that are similar to the symptoms of the sick patient which they are supposed to be treating.[7] Based on later experiments, Hahnemann reasoned that using natural doses of substances would generally not help patients because, if they produced effects similar to those of the disease, they would only make symptoms worse, and thus proposed the dilution of substances in water or alcohol, with shaking (known as "succussion") after each dilution, in order to try and imprint the liquid with the memory of the original substance. To account for homeopathic remedies sometimes failing to produce lasting cures of long-standing chronic diseases, Hahnemann proposed that the vital force in the body has the ability to react or adapt to disturbances, referred to as the "law of susceptibility", and that various causes can attract hypothetical disease-causing entities called "miasms", which he claimed could produce symptoms of disease within the body, and formed a deeper, harder to treat cause of illness.[7]

Claims for the medical efficacy of homeopathic treatments are unsupported by scientific and clinical studies.[8][9][10] The hypothesis that extreme dilution makes any drug more powerful is antithetical to the principles of chemistry and physics as well as the observed dose-response relationships of conventional medicines. The scientific community asserts there is no scientific evidence supporting the contention that water or alcohol retain any memory of a substance. Researchers conclude that any positive effects of homeopathic treatment are simply a placebo effect.[6][11][8][9] Homeopaths are also often accused of giving 'false hope' to patients who might be better advised to seek effective conventional treatments. Studies have shown homeopaths frequently advise patients to avoid standard medical procedures including drugs which can prevent diseases such as malaria.[12][13] The meta-analyses that have been done on homeopathy have confirmed that its effects are unlikely to be beyond that of placebo, and those studies that have shown positive results for homeopathic treatments were flawed in design. These findings, along with the proscription by homeopaths against conventional medicine and their encouragement of a "holistic" approach to health, are in keeping with the conclusion of many scientists that homeopathy is a sort of quackery.[14][15][16]
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Answer 2

It is using herbs and other naturally occurring substances to health the body
herbs can help or cure most health problems without the side effects.

what most would consider medicines they get most of there stuff from nature they only refine it.

You do have to watch were you go as there are bad Doc's in any field.

do your research and do not do anything that does not feel right

Answer 3

It's what humans have been using for millennia before the advent of modern medicine.

Answer 4

IT IS ALL NATURAL MEDICATIONS. THEY DO WORK. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, MANY YEARS AGO THEY DID NOT HAVE THE MEDICINES WE HAVE NOW. SOMETIMES IT IS BETTER TO GO TO A REGULAR DOCTOR BUT I HAVE TAKEN HERBAL MEDS AND SOME REALLY DO WORK WITHOUT THE RISK OF ADDICTION.