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Homeopathy Awareness Week
Apr. 18th, 2012 04:59 pmBy the way, this is officially Homeopathy Awareness Week... so I feel it is my duty to share its precepts so that you can make an informed decision about homeopathic remedies.
Homeopathy is the treatment of health issues based on two concepts... treating like with like and dilution. Treating like with like means that if you want to get rid of a headache, you put something into the "medicine" that causes headaches.
Dilution means that you take some of your "medicine", put it in a lot of water, shake it really hard, slam it on the table (no, really), and then take one tiny portion, put it in more water and repeat the process dozens or hundreds of times. The founder of the process recommended a 30C dilution. This means that for you to get one single molecule of the "medicine", you would have to drink 30 times the mass of the earth in homeopathic "medicine".
Homeopathy salesmen sometimes like to talk about "water memory", where the liquid holds some memory of the substances that were in it. With that in mind, I should point out that most water has held poop of some kind.
There is not a single bit of science that supports any portion of homeopathy as legitimate theory or practice.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Homeopaths on Homeopathy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/apr/17/1
Homeopathy is the treatment of health issues based on two concepts... treating like with like and dilution. Treating like with like means that if you want to get rid of a headache, you put something into the "medicine" that causes headaches.
Dilution means that you take some of your "medicine", put it in a lot of water, shake it really hard, slam it on the table (no, really), and then take one tiny portion, put it in more water and repeat the process dozens or hundreds of times. The founder of the process recommended a 30C dilution. This means that for you to get one single molecule of the "medicine", you would have to drink 30 times the mass of the earth in homeopathic "medicine".
Homeopathy salesmen sometimes like to talk about "water memory", where the liquid holds some memory of the substances that were in it. With that in mind, I should point out that most water has held poop of some kind.
There is not a single bit of science that supports any portion of homeopathy as legitimate theory or practice.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Homeopaths on Homeopathy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/apr/17/1
