Homeopathy

Homeopathy believes that substances diluted to the point that there is literally nothing left but water can have a positive therapeutic effect upon the body. A common homeopathic preparation approach is to do a 10:1 dilution 30 times. That means that if the concentration of the original substance was 1 (in other words, it was 100% pure substance), then after 30 10:1 dilutions there is .000000000000000000000000000001 left. If exponential notation is familiar to you, that's 10-30.You can create your own homeopathic remedies if you're so inclined. If there's a headache medication that works reliably for you (and I do mean reliably - Tylenol doesn't work for me, but aspirin cures my headaches every single time), then the next time you get a headache, take the medication and grind it up into a powder and mix it with 10 ml of pure water. That's the 1st dilution. Now take 1 ml of that mixture, add 10 ml of pure water to it, then mix it thoroughly. Repeat this process 28 more times. Now drink the mixture. Did your headache go away?Even more important, does it make sense to you that such a dilute mixture of headache medication could have any effect whatsoever on you? That's a rhetorical question, hopefully it seems as ridiculous to you as it does to everyone else.As to mechanism, the claim of homeopathy is that the water "remembers" the substance it was mixed with, even though the mixture is so dilute that none of the original substance is left. There is no evidence of this, and the claim originates with the originator of homeopathy, who since he died in 1843 could not possibly have had any way to know such a thing even if it were true.

A basic education in just what evidence is (and isn't) would go a long way to solve this issue.

I don't honestly know enough about it to be able to say.

...then after 30 10:1 dilutions there is .000000000000000000000000000001 left. If exponential notation is familiar to you, that's 10-30.

The original idea was that the "memory" of the substance is retained in the water. Like I said, I haven't looked into it and I don't know enough to be able to comment knowledgeably. However, as you are well aware, I believe that there are potentially many aspects about the world we live in that are waiting to be discovered. We don't know it all. Maybe we don't even know it all about water.

wiki writes:The fallacy of appealing to lack of proof of the negative is a logical fallacy of the following form:"X is true because there is no proof that X is false."It is asserted that a proposition is true, only because it has not been proven false. The negative proof fallacy often occurs in the debate of the existence of supernatural phenomena, in the following form:* "A supernatural force must exist, because there is no proof that it does not exist".

bbc writes:The then editor of Nature, Sir John Maddox, agreed to publish Benveniste's paper -- on one condition. Benveniste must open his laboratory to a team of independent referees, who would evaluate his techniques.

At the time, Benveniste was research director of the Clamart-based Unit 200 of INSERM, the French biomedical research agency, which studied the immunology of allergy and inflammation. He was suspended after Maddox launched an investigation of his methods.

FDA regulates homeopathic drugs in several significantly different ways from other drugs. Manufacturers of homeopathic drugs are deferred from submitting new drug applications to FDA. Their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength. Homeopathic drugs in solid oral dosage form must have an imprint that identifies the manufacturer and indicates that the drug is homeopathic. The imprint on conventional products, unless specifically exempt, must identify the active ingredient and dosage strength as well as the manufacturer.

The human nose is capable of detecting its said 10,000 different smells in parts per trillion. Water separates charges due to its polar covalency suspect it becomes hard to test in parts per trillion but interestingly the body can recognize smells in parts per trillion which is like what your likely talking in respect to a 30 time dilution.

You do agree its been diluted thus its not just water if the body can sense ppt then if this diluted water is consumed no reason the body will not react to this dilution "ppt".

Check the video about waters structures multiply and how it relates to homeopathy.

She's a practicing neurologist.

Its been noted that not all waters are equal in nature it has to do with structures found in water.

When support is presented and it is unsatisfactory that is most often explained. There are a large number of cases where there is no support offered whatsoever. In fact I'd say that "most" is wrong. Only a very few support their assertions with anything other than more assertions. And when they do they get the facts wrong but at least those few do offer some support.

P.S. Its better you believe its nothing cause if people explained to the FDA that nothing is really something they might start regulating homeopathy.

FDA regulates homeopathic drugs in several significantly different ways from other drugs. Manufacturers of homeopathic drugs are deferred from submitting new drug applications to FDA. Their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength. Homeopathic drugs in solid oral dosage form must have an imprint that identifies the manufacturer and indicates that the drug is homeopathic. The imprint on conventional products, unless specifically exempt, must identify the active ingredient and dosage strength as well as the manufacturer.

However, I also trust my ND. Homeopathy is a small part of what she does and she's never prescribed it for me. If she did, I would give her the benefit of the doubt and try it. There's no harm in it, it's not as if I'm hoping it's going to cure my cancer or mend a broken leg.