by Candlelight.kk Fri 8 Nov 2019 - 12:12
Sparrow,
I am not quite sure what you meant by saying you were
"studying homeopathy"(?)
Based on a series of ideas developed in the 1790s by a German doctor called Samuel Hahnemann, a central principle of homeopathic "treatment" is that "like cures like" – that a substance that causes certain symptoms can also help to remove those symptoms. It is based around a process of dilution and shaking, called succussion. Practitioners believe that the more a substance is diluted in this way, the greater its power to treat symptoms.
Many homeopathic remedies consist of substances that have been diluted many times in water until there is none or almost none of the original substance left.
A
2010 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on homeopathy said that homeopathic remedies perform no better than placebos, and rather expensive ones at that!
Of course the "placebo effect" can and does work wonders in many kinds of conventional treatments - as it is the mind that centrally controls the physical body, the feeling of pain and our mental wellbeing, and indeed a number of the conventional medications administered by GPs and hospitals to dull/anesthetize a feeling of physical pain are substances which
send a message to the brain that you do not feel pain, or you do not feel sick. That part of the physical brain is simply 'closed off' for a time. Perhaps beneficial for using as an anesthetizer when undergoing surgery etc, but these things serve only to cover up any pain or condition on a temporary basis, and furthermore, may even cause a problem elsewhere which was not there in the first place; what is really needed is to work directly on the actual
source of the problem, whether that be physical or mental.