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Originally posted by crescentx
I almost consider myself European here. Americans see "homeopathic" and they gp nuts. Witch doctor, etc.
I'm 31 and avoid doctors like the plague. Who wouldn't. 'Three times I've gone. Every time I've gotten advice that was wrong, pure and simple.
Condemn it if you will, good American, everytime I've gone homeopathic, it's woked. Nothing mysticsl about it, it is tried and true methods, thousands of years olf.
-doug
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Homeopathy is less than 200 years old. Its not popular because its never survived the gold standard for testing modern medications.. the double blind study.
It came about in the late 1700's when some german doctor, tired of using leeches and bloodletting to treat people, came up with the incredibly bright idea that a substance which cause physical problems in large amounts will cure the same problems when administered in infintesimal amounts.
Brilliant, huh?
It should be obvious to anyone who's taken highschool biology that diluting any substance to the degree that homeopathic "medicines" are diluted (20x - 30x) renders it impotent. Even the most potent toxins have no effect on the human body when diluted that far down.
There is a law in chemistry which states that there is a limit to the dilution that can be made before you lose the original substance entirely. Again.. high school biology.. if you dilute something to even 12x, there is virtually no chance that any of the substance you were diluting remains in any one dose of the "medicine."
Of course the laws of chemistry don't apply to homeopathy, do they?
Hahneman(sp?).. the german doc who came up with this crap.. realized this, but he believed that the vigorous shaking or pulverizing with each step of dilution leaves behind a "spirit-like" essence which cures by reviving the body's "vital force." Modern homeopaths assert that even when the last molecule is gone, a "memory" of the substance is retained.
So yeah, it is witch doctor, mystical bullshit which ignores basic physical laws.