Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a branch of Natural or alternative medicine, pioneered in the 1790s by a German physician called Samuel Hahnemann. It adheres to the principles of the law of similars. please watch my short video which explains in a little bit more detail.
As well as being an effective treatment for a plethora of physical complaints, Homeopathy can be an excellent mode of treatment for many non physical complaints such as anxiety, hyperactivity, anger and behavioural issues, depression and more. Homeopathy is considered to be a safe medicine.
A critical overview of Homeopathy
In an abstract from a 2003 PubMed article by Wayne B Jonas et al Homeopathy is described a 200 year old therapeutic system that uses small doses of various substances to stimulate autoregulatory and self healing processes. Homeopathy selects substances by matching a patient's symptoms produced by these substances in healthy individuals. Medicines are prepared by serial dilution and shaking which proponents claim imprints information in to water. Although many physicians find such notions implausible.
Homeopathic remedies were allowed by the 1939 pure food and drug act and are available over the counter. Some data both from randomised, controlled trails and laboratory research show effects from Homeopathic remedies that contradict the contemporary rational basis of medicine. Three independent systematic placebo controlled trails on Homeopathy reported it's effects seemed to be more than placebo.
