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Homeopathy is an alternative medicine based on the theory of treating ‘like with like’. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/home

Homeopathy is an alternative medicine based on the theory of treating ‘like with like’. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/homeopathy https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtrea... For the record, I am not a practitioner of homeopathy. I just know from talking to people that this is the idea behind it.

pazimzadeh 3y ago
It's not a terrible idea. Like how fever was used to fight malaria a while back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy
- DoreenMichele 3y ago
  That's not what your link says. It says malaria was induced to cause fever as a means to combat syphilis until they discovered penicillin.
  - pazimzadeh 3y ago
    You're right
throwbadubadu 3y ago
And that escalated quickly because that theory is completely bonkers and any results of that if anything placebo.. so then we can just say everything here.
dorfsmay 3y ago
It's not treating like with like, it's attempting to treat with something that has contain the substance but no longer contains it. They add something to water or alcohol then dilute repeatedly until it's just water. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions#Dilutions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions#Diluti... If you believe it works then you should drink a bit of water from the ocean everyday, because so many sewage are poured there that every virus and bacteria of every human illness has been there, and the oceans are so vast that it's been diluted properly!