Alternative Medicine

Alternative Medicine?....What is it?
It's Magic Water, Pyramid healing, Alternative Medicines, Faith healing, Homoeopathic Medicine, Magnets and a lot of the Herbs, Miracles and Cure alls that flood the market these days. Some good, some bad and some completely outrageous

On a Forum based in England I used to post on quite regularly, there were several people who would defend this malarkey to the end. Not once could they provide any evidence what so ever that it worked, but they still got quite annoyed and defensive if anyone ever even hinted at the fact that it may not work, let alone call it an out and out scam.

Here's a quick out line of what Homoeopathic Medicine is and how it is made.

The preparation of homoeopathic medicines consists of repeated dilution and shaking called 'potentisation'. Homoeopaths believe this process renders the remedies capable of stimulating the body's natural healing forces. After the 12th dilution, there is no discernible chemical trace of the original substance left in the medicine. Scientists question how this highly diluted substance could retain a biological effect, but homoeopaths believe the preparation retains the qualities of the original substance.
Although a precise mechanism for how homoeopathy works has not yet been scientifically established, there have been some studies that support the efficacy of homoeopathy, while others have not been able to confirm its effectiveness for any specific medical condition.

Quotes from this page.

So, what they are saying here is that the original element has been diluted to such a degree that there is nothing left of it!...But apparently the water or substance that contains the medicine some how retains the memory or the original substance!

Homoeopathic products are made from minerals, botanical substances, and several other sources. If the original substance is soluble, one part is diluted with either nine or ninety-nine parts of distilled water and/or alcohol and shaken vigorously (succussed); if insoluble, it is finely ground and pulverised in similar proportions with powdered lactose (milk sugar). One part of the diluted medicine is then further diluted, and the process is repeated until the desired concentration is reached. Dilutions of 1 to 10 are designated by the Roman numeral X (1X = 1/10, 3X = 1/1,000, 6X = 1/1,000,000). Similarly, dilutions of 1 to 100 are designated by the Roman numeral C (1C = 1/100, 3C = 1/1,000,000, and so on). Most remedies today range from 6X to 30X, but products of 30C or more are marketed.

The bottom line of the above quote will give some perspective on the amounts of the substance in the "Medicine" we are referring too... A 30X dilution means that the original substance has been diluted 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times!


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I have no idea why people spend large amounts of money on some of these "Cure Alls" but having said that, I have no doubt that in some case they do work. Even if only as a Placebo. But the thing is, the people that peddle the wares are Liars and Hypocrites, make no mistake, they have your wallet in mind...Not your good health.