Homeopathic medicine

based on the German version "Homöopathische Arzneien"

Art

Liquid, globules, capsule, dragees, powder

Description

It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people, this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like".

Homeopathic products come from plants (such as red onion, arnica [mountain herb], poison ivy, belladonna [deadly nightshade], and stinging nettle), minerals (such as white arsenic), or animals (such as crushed whole bees).

Usually, 35 to 40% Alcohol in mother Tinctures and 88 to 93 % in potencise dilution alcohol are used.

Effect

Risks

• They have no harmful side effects
• Effect is not scientifically verifiable
• Associated with very high costs, thus waste of money

Sources:

• Hahnemann, Samuel (1833). The homœopathic medical doctrine, or "Organon of the healing art". Dublin: W. F. Wakeman. pp. iii, 48–49, ISBN: 978-1295764310
• https://www.nccih.nih.gov
• http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art10319.asp