27-11-2017, 09:44 AM
Homeopathy is an alternative medicine system created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of similar cures (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people could cure similar symptoms in people sick Homeopathy is a pseudoscience, a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective in treating any condition. Large-scale studies have found that homeopathy is not more effective than a placebo, indicating that the positive effects that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect, the normal recovery of the disease or the regression to the mean.
Hahnemann believed that the underlying causes of the disease were phenomena that he called miasmas, and that homeopathic preparations addressed. The preparations are made using a homeopathic dilution process, in which a chosen substance is repeatedly diluted in alcohol or distilled water, each time the container container is hit against an elastic material, commonly a leather bound book. In general, the dilution continues long after the point where there are no molecules of the original substance. Homeopaths select homeopathy by referring to reference books known as repertoires, and considering the totality of symptoms, personal traits, physical and psychological state, and history of the patient's life.