How does a homeopath go on a diet?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
December 14, 2018 9:24am CST
The basic idea behind homeopathy is utterly bonkers. This is that the more dilute the substance you take as medicine, the better the effect it will have on you.
The concept of dilution is taken to a ridiculous extreme - one drop of a substance in 100 drops of pure water, then one drop of this "mixture" in 100 drops of water, then this repeated again and again, up to 30 times.
Indeed, if you were really able to do this, you would have to imagine a ball of water 1000 times as big as the planet Jupiter containing one single drop of the active ingredient!
Hence the question in my title - the logic of homeopathy implies that the less you eat, the fatter you get!
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@Namelesss (3368)
• United States
14 Dec 18
Apples and oranges dear. Do you think vaccines protect individuals from certain diseases? If so, perhaps you don't know vaccines operate on the same principle as homeopathic medicines.
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The same trial was done against Pasteur and Koch during the 19th C. I have a manuscript from a doctor making fun of Pasteur and telling that a pilgrimage to St-Hubert had as many chances to cure rabies than Pasteur's vaccine.@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
14 Dec 18
Vaccines work by encouraging the body to produce antibodies to counter future infections, not to cure a current disease. The principle of homeopathy is that a minute amount of the infecting substance will cure the disease, but in such an insignificant quantity that it could not possibly have the slightest impact on the human body.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Dec 18
@indexer Not really, it depends of the dilution. Science cannot explain how dilutions above CH15 could have some effect, but at CH15 and under there is still a possible active component, and it is very useful to scientists criticizing homeopathy : "This worked ? Oh, yes, it is because it was a low dilution."
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