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What are homeopathic medicines made up of?
Homeopathic products come from plants (such as red onion, arnica [mountain herb], poison ivy, belladonna [deadly nightshade], and stinging nettle), minerals (such as white arsenic), or animals (such as crushed whole bees).
Why are dilutions important to homeopathic medicine?
The more a biologically active substance is diluted, the more potent it becomes. The most powerful homeopathic drugs, the ones that according to some homeopaths have to be used the most carefully, are the ones that do not even contain a single molecule of the original substance!
Which is more powerful mother tincture or dilution?
Mother tincture is the fresh form of making where as by dilution it becomes more potent. The herbal tincture is extra potent because it has added the fresh material in the tincture medicine corresponded to a mother tincture in which the mother substance is diluted more.
How do homeopathic dilutions differ from over-the-counter drugs?
Homeopathic dilutions range in intensity. Over-the-counter drugs may contain active ingredients, depending on scaling. A potency of 6x means there’s one part active ingredient per million bits of sugar. By the time you get to 6c there is one part in ten trillion. By 13c no parts remain. A typical homeopathic medicine is 30c.
What is homeopathy and how does it work?
Homeopathy’s basic premise is called the “principle of similars,” and it refers to recurrent observation and experience that a medicinal substance will elicit a healing response for the specific syndrome of symptoms (or suffering) that it has been proven to cause when given in overdose to a healthy person.
Are there any studies on homeopathic aggravations?
Researchers have not found much evidence of this reaction in clinical studies; however, research on homeopathic aggravations is scarce. Always discuss changes in your symptoms with your health care provider. The FDA has warned consumers about different products labeled as homeopathic.
What happened to homeopathy in America?
Whereas homeopathy was nearly extinct in America — introduced here in 1825, the last homeopathic hospital shut its doors in the 1950s — a renaissance of magical thinking and the proliferation of anti-corporate sentiments arising in the sixties rekindled our fascination.