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The number of people who believe in homeopathy after it's explained to them is TOO DAMN HIGH.
I thought for the longest time that homeopathy was just a generic name for alternative medicines or something. Wasn't for me regardless so I never gave it a second thought or dug into it.
Someone recently explained what it was to me and I just started laughing. Hilarious. Kinda. I had no clue.
So what is it?
It's the idea that water has memory, and that memory-water has healing abilities. I'm not going to explain it more than that but there's no shortage of online sources to both explain it and disprove it.
Don't forget the idea that diluting the original substance in water until literally none remains supposedly makes it stronger.
I didn't, but as I said, I don't feel like explaining it more than I did.
Oh lol
It’s a term that refers to any medicinal strategy which includes providing small amounts of the same pathogen or another substance which causes the same symptoms.
homeo = matching the
pathy = disease
Two examples of mainstreamed homeopathic treatments are:
It’s differentiated from “allopathic” medicine, which is when you use something that the opposite or indices opposite symptoms.
allo = opposite of the
pathy = disease
Most mainstream medicine is allopathic medicine:
In a drive to provide supply for the desire to make fun of people, the internet has decided homeopathy refers to mega-diluted water potions. It’s classic straw man shit writ large, fur the satisfaction of mocking people.
Homeopathy = pushing the same direction as a disease, to trigger the body’s own anti-disease mechanisms
Allopathy = pushing back against the disease with the medicine, because the body’s anti-disease mechanisms are exhausted or absent
That was very detailed thank you
The fact that it's not zero is so weird.
I have a beautiful unicorn pin with a magnet back on my fridge that says “Homeopathic means pretend” from the podcast Sawbones. It makes me smile.