How does homeopathy work?

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How does homeopathy work?

http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session2/group43/homohow.htm

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In trying to understand ‘how it works,’ it is perhaps appropriate first to

consider ‘if’ it works. There is currently a lot of speculation and controversy

regarding this issue. For example, is homeopathy more effective than placebo?

 

Dr Reilly’s studies into whether homeopathy is a placebo response or not are a

fine example of the type of thinking that should be emulated by people carrying

out homeopathic research.

 

In practice, if a treatment works, knowledge of the mechanisms of action is

not necessary. After all, there are examples in regular medicine where

mechanisms are hardly understood at all. There are evidently many ideas as to

how homeopathy works. However, to assume that an infinitesimally diluted

substance in an alcoholic solution has pharmacological effects would mean that

essential concepts of modern science would have to be rejected.

 

It is clear that more research is needed. From the results of trials published

so far and the large scale on which homeopathy is brought into practice, this

claim is justified. [2][4]

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest

of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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