I just don’t want the explanation that it is always used, you know, the one where it says that it causes sympthoms to cure the illness or all that, what i do really wanna know is… what does it do, and a clear example, cuz i’ve heard it A LOT of times but i never EVER understood what does it do (But i know it’s not a good medicione, through).
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Homeopathy does nothing, it is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine with no evidence that is works.
The idea is like a cure like and the effect gets stronger the more you dilute something. Allergies can cause itchy and teary eyes and so can onion. So you use onions to treat allergies.
Dilution makes it stronger so you put some onion in water, then take a drop of that water and mix it with water 100x the volume of that drop. Shake the water and repeat the process 100 times and you get a dilution that would be called 100 c. They use the liquid or put it on a sugar pill that can dry and be eaten later.
There is a problem when you do that you have diluted it to such a degree that there is unlikely a single molecule from the onion left in the mixture. The result is that homeopaths have claimed that water has a memory of what was in it.
Why does it has no memory of other stuff that you care about like feces is not clear? All water we use has at some time been in the ocean so have been in direct or indirect contact with poop so it shole have a very strong memory of it.
So homeopathy is in practice just sugar pills or water that do not have any measurable effect compared to placebo, so it does nothing.
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