You might like Good news from Germany. Scientists say homeopathy is not just placebo. So, one part toxin such as the aforementioned poison ivy is mixed with 10 parts water or alcohol. The mix is shaken; one part of this mix is added to 10 parts of water or alcohol again; and the whole process is repeated 30 times.
The final dilution is one molecule of medicine in 10 to the 30th power 10 30 of molecules of solution — or 1 in a million trillion trillion. At this dilution level you'd need to drink 8, gallons of water to get one molecule of the medicine — physically possible but implausible. Other homeopathic solutions are 30C, which represents to the 30th power There's not enough water in the solar system to accommodate this dilution.
Hahnemann didn't realize this because he developed his theory before the concept in chemistry of the mole and Avogadro constant, which defines the number of particles in any given amount of a substance. So, Hahnemann and his followers could do the mechanical actions of dilution, but unbeknownst to them, they were diluting the medicine right out of the solution.
Homeopathic practitioners today understand the concept of Avogadro constant. They attribute homeopathy's healing powers to "water memory" — the concept that water has the ability to remember of shape of the medicine it once contained. There are, however, at least three problems with this stance. First, this concept of water memory is beyond the realm of known physics. Water is not known to maintain an ordered alignment of molecules for much longer than a picosecond. Second, if water can remember the shape of what's in it, then all water has the potential to be homeopathic.
Tap water, with its traces of natural substances sloshing about in pipes known to cause cancer and other diseases, would be therapeutic against these diseases. Hahnemann ingested the bark and discovered that it caused symptoms similar to malaria.
He continued his research into "cures" and the idea of "similar suffering," and began compiling his findings.
Similia similibus curentur, the Latin phrase meaning "let likes be cured by likes," is the primary principle of homeopathy. A homeopath searches for a substance that produces in a healthy person those same symptoms a patient experiences. It gained recognition because of its success in treating the many disease epidemics rampant at the time — including scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera and yellow fever. At that time, there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, homeopathic hospitals and over 1, homeopathic pharmacies.
Boston University, Stanford University and New York Medical College were among those educational institutions that were teaching homeopathy. This was also around the time when modern drug companies began releasing drugs that were easy to administer to patients, a trend that also contributed to the decline of homeopathy.
Although the United States experienced a dwindling interest in homeopathy in the 20th century, other nations, including countries in Europe and Asia, were experiencing a steady growth of homeopathic teachings and interest.
Today, nearly all French pharmacies sell homeopathic remedies and medicines; and homeopathy has a particularly strong following in Russia, India, Switzerland, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, and South America. Homeopathy is also rising again in the United States.
This resurgence has been documented by the National Center for Homeopathy in Virginia, which stated that Americans spent million dollars on homeopathic remedies in
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