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15 Apr 12:38pm

Filed under: Alternative Medicine, Homeopathy, Naturopath, Society

It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week, and homeopaths around the world are celebrating their craft and reflect on the 255th birthday of their creator, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.

A bit of this and a bit of that ....:

Homeopathy was invented 200 years ago by the German physician, and is based on a ‘like-treats-like’ concept: that the symptoms of an illness can be treated by minute quantities of the same substance that caused it.

This is known as the ‘Law of Similars’ and means that a homeopathic medicine for insomnia may include miniscule amounts of coffee or a homeopathic medicine for hay fever may contain tiny traces of grasses, pollens or animal hair.

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Dr Lisa Milne says:

07:53pm | 12/07/11

Indeed Nancy, its positively and consistently evident that at best its does nothing (being water) but that at worst it leads to avoidable deaths (such as that of Penelope Dingle) when the condition is real and life threatening. Read more »
Dr. Nancy Malik says:

03:14pm | 21/05/11

Evidence of homeopathy is undeniably positive and consistent. It’s a human evidence of experience, gathered from a real-world observation in a real-world setting (not in an ideal artificial laboratory) giving real-world solutions. Read more »

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