Homeopathy belongs to the field of alternative/complementary or even natural medicine. These are methods of treatment and healing that are intended to stimulate the body to heal itself naturally. In contrast to conventional medicine, effects are not scientifically verifiable and are often condemned by critics as placebo (i.e. without real effect/apparent effect).
They say that alternative medicine has no side effects, but also no main effect. In this article we will discuss the increasingly widespread “trend” of homeopathy – where is it applied, what is actually behind it and does it work at all? A short insight into the background.
What is homeopathy?
Representatives of naturopathy swear by positive effects and in our today’s medically very progressive society it is nevertheless ever more common. The term “homeopathy” comes from the Greek and means translated “similar suffering” (homeo/homo = similar, similar; – pathos/pathie = illness, suffering). The concept is that something is cured by something similar.
Practically, this means that something is administered to the body which can cause a disease, but is diluted so much that it does not really cause a disease, but is nevertheless supposed to cause a healing in the body. The mixture D30, as it is written on the doses for example, would correspond to a mixture of the amount of one droplet in Lake Constance. However, it is said that the higher the dilution, the more intensive the effect.
These agents are so highly diluted that it cannot even be proven in the laboratory that the substance is contained at all. These agents are administered in the form of globules, i.e. small beads that are dissolved under the tongue and usually have a sweet taste. Since many alternative healing methods are not scientifically recognized, the services are in most cases not covered by health insurance, but must be paid out of private pockets. The following articles may also be of interest to you: Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, craniosacral therapy
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