Homeopathy is an alternative form of medicine created by Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann. This medicine is created by diluting chemicals into water, until the solution even containing a single molecule of the chemical becomes questionable. Supporters of homeopathy claim that the water will retain the “memory” of the chemical. In my humble opinion, this alternative medicine known as homeopathy is nothing but an elusive fraud to start a multi-million dollar industry.
The invention of homeopathy was established 200 years ago. However, after decades of research, a creditable scientific validation is yet to be announced. This is because it is not scientifically valid and is more or less a psychological effect or a trick that our brain has played. Diluting a substance until the original content is gone is highly skeptical, and no experiments have proven that it actually works. Homeopathy is more related to placebo pills, where the patients will feel better just because they believe that the pill will cure them. Even the inventor of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann stated that homeopathy is a, “Dynamic spiritual healing force”. His perspectives are more of a religious view than a scientific one, and are therefore, not an effective persuasion for scientific breakthrough.
An individual named, “James Randi” is setting up a campaign to attack the makers of homeopathy drugs. He tried to prove the fraud by overdosing on homeopathic sleeping pills and claiming that it had no effect on him whatsoever. His confidence even led him to offer one million dollar to anyone who could provide enough evidence of homeopathy’s validity. So far, no one has taken Randi’s offer. If a doctor prescribed me a homeopathic medicine, then I would begin to suspect the doctor’s education. Let us examine the basis of homeopathy. Homeopathy is based on three rules. One, the substance that is harming is you, will cure you. Second, diluting the substance makes it stronger. Lastly, the maker of homeopathy claims that water has a memory. The homeopathic medicine is already diluted until it is compared to a drop of water into the ocean, therefore the solution does not contain a single molecule of the substance that is supposedly able to cure you. So, the substance that is diluted does not exist anymore, and diluting it further is just going to make it disappear and not stronger. The theory, which states that water has a memory, is not scientifically correct. If it is, then the water will have to remember all the sewages, lakes, ponds, oceans, or even an animal’s urination. Then how would these memories not interfere with the homeopathic original substance that is being diluted?
In conclusion, homeopathy is a fraud, and the makers are just selling this “fake” medicine next to a scientifically proven medicine. No scientific claims have yet to testify the homeopathic medicine’s validity. Therefore, I believe that homeopathy is not a legit medicine and is ridiculous to the core.
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| "If" water had memory |
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| Homeopathy = Placebo Effect |
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