homeopathic remedies are promotedas effective alternatives to conventional medicine. is there any truth to that? nope. in theory and application,homeopathy just doesn’t add up. [splash] homeopathy is its own categoryof “alternative medicine†that emerged some 200 years ago. not all natural or herbal remedies in your pharmacy
are considered homeopathic. homeopathic medicines are based ona few theories of disease distinct from conventional medicine, the mostfamous being “like cures like.†that’s the idea that if somethinggives you a rash, that same thing can be used to treat rashes. a german doctor named samuel hahnemann coined the term homeopathy in 1807. he thought medicine then was doing more harm than good. you can’t totally blame him, i mean,bloodletting was still a thing.
but that’s really all the credit you can give him. he started doing experiments ona small group of volunteers as well as on himself, which is not good scientific practice. in one, he ate the bark of the cinchona (sing-koh-nuh) tree, which in his day was used as a treatment for malaria. [onscreen: we now know it containsthe antimalarial drug quinine]. after he ate a bunch, he got symptoms he thought were similar to malaria. that led to his first principleof homeopathy: like cures like.
he thought that when a substancein large doses caused certain symptoms, in small doses itcould cure those same symptoms. here’s an example. a homeopathic remedy if youcan’t sleep is coffea cruda. which is just very, very, very diluted amounts of unroasted coffee beans. dilution, aka reducing the concentration of something, is the second principle of homeopathy. hahnemann thought a sick person
only needed a very small amountof an active ingredient. he used a dilution scale that increased by factors of 100, a scale denoted with a c. you cansee that on a homeopathic label. one way to make coffea cruda is toput one drop in a vial containing nine drops of water, then takea drop from that vial and put it in another vial with nine drops of water. 60 times. that was a pretty standard dilution for hahnemann. the thing is, by the 60th vial you’ve diluted your coffee
so many times that there really isn’t any left. statistically, beyond a 13 c dilution you have zero chance of finding a single molecule of theactive ingredient in your vial. now, keep in mind that in hahnemann’s age the concept of atoms and molecules as fundamental units ofmatter hadn’t really been developed. so maybe he couldn’t know thatyou could dilute something until it was effectively gone. today, though, we know that full well. but homeopaths still insist thatdilution principle is sound.
they also claim that water can somehow remember what has dissolved in it, and pass the effects of thoseabsent molecules on to the patient. but to date there has notbeen repeatable, convincing evidence of this phenomenon,which violates some deeply held principles of physical science. so no, your homeopathic waterdoesn’t remember the coffee that may once have been in it. the foundational ideas of homeopathy are bunk. the us national institutes ofhealth have said that “several key
concepts of homeopathy are inconsistent with fundamental concepts of chemistry and physics.†but what if, somehow, it still works, in some mysterious way we don’t yet understand? well scientists tested that too. a 2015 report from the australian nationalhealth and medical research council (anhmrc) considered the results of about 200studies on the the effectiveness of homeopathy. after looking at the evidence, theyconcluded that homeopathic remedies are no better than a sugar pill, a placebo.
the studies that have shown benefits of homeopathic remedies, had flawed methodologies. the aussies concluded, “there are nohealth conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective.†at best, homeopathic remedies are a harmless waste of money. at worst, people might endanger their health by skipping treatment or care they need. for example, there are homeopathic asthma inhalers being sold. these aren’t any better at stoppingan asthma attack than a placebo.
an untreated asthma attack can be fatal. and remember, homeopathic remedies aren’t held to the same standards as u-s food and drug administration- approved medicine, although that might change. that’s the science, but youshould talk to a medical doctor if you’re still curious aboutalternative treatment options. check out these videos on multivitamin supplements and aspartame. have an idea for a video? leave it in the comments.
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