NHS declares Homeopathy useless Friday, August 8, 2008
Posted by ThomDG in Alternative Medicine, Homeopathy.Tags: Alternative Medicine, Health, Homeopathy, pseudoscience, Skepticism
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The National Health Service has declared they will no longer pay for homeopathic treatments. This is a huge victory for the skeptical movement. Homeopathy is absolutely huge in the UK, due in part to loonies like Prince Charles. Of course wherever there is homeopathy there will be a downside. One woman, 90 year old Marjorie Titchen, has lost coverage that she feels allows her to keep working. I don’t doubt that she feels better, I’m sure she does. I’m also sure that homeopathy isn’t the reason she is feeling better.
For those of you who don’t know what Homeopathy is, it is utter bullshit. Homeopathy was founded around 1792 by Samuel Hahnemann. It is based around two primary concepts, like cures like, and less is more. For example if you have trouble getting to sleep, just take some caffeine, diluted to the point where there isn’t a single molecule of it left. Homeopathic “remedies” come in many different dilutions ranging from 1x to 400x or in other words from 1:10 to 1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Incase you can count that many zeroes or don’t feel like it, thats 10 to the power of 400. This is Homeopathy. I plan to post a more in-depth review and description of homeopathy in the near future.
The only good thing about homeopathy is that it is basically harmless. You can do as much damage with a homeopathic remedy as you can with water. The problem is that water doesn’t detach people from their money and prevent them from getting scientifically proven medical care. In the end Britain is making the best choice popular for the population as a whole. Overall the population of the Untied Kingdom is going to be healthier.
homoeopathy is a system that must be understood thoroughly.even though the medicines are diluted the, medicinal power still remains in the drug.its the quality of the drug that is curing the patient but not quantity.according to the system the drug acts on the root cause and removes the ailments caused by it.the symptoms which appear externally are the manifestations of the internal disease.if the internal derangement is corrected the external symptoms will go off automatically.
I don’t think you understand basic science. If there isn’t even a molecule left of the drug, then it can’t possibly cure anything, also the idea that like cures like is completely illogical. If I want to go to sleep, I’m not going to drink coffee. If I have a cold pepper isn’t going to help me. Also there have been numerous and well controlled studies confirming that homeopathy doesn’t work. In the end homeopathic remedies are water, and just water.