What is HOMOEOPATHY & How HOMOEOPATHIC medicines work. Is it SCIENTIFIC?

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i want to know mainly about homoeopathy.

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Homeopathy (also spelled homœopathy or homoeopathy) from the Greek words όμοιος, hómoios (similar) and πάθος, páthos (suffering), is a therapy that strives to treat "like with like" (the etymological origin of the word homeopathy: 'similar suffering').[1] The term "homeopathy" was coined by the Saxon physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) and first appeared in print in 1807,[2] although he had previously outlined his axiom of medical similars in a series of articles and monographs commencing in 1796.[3] Homeopathy is an alternative medicine that is particularly popular in Europe and India,[4][5] although less so in the USA,[6] where such therapies have been subject to tighter regulation. Stricter European regulations have also been implemented recently by the EDQM.[7]

Homeopathy rests on the premise of treating sick persons with extremely diluted agents that - in undiluted doses - are deemed to produce similar symptoms in a healthy individual. Its adherents and practitioners assert that the therapeutic potency of a remedy can be increased by serial dilution of the drug, combined with succussion or vigorous shaking. In common with conventional medicine, homeopathy regards diseases as morbid derangements of the organism.[8] However, it differs in preferring to view each case of sickness as a strictly individual phenomenon.[9] It is the man that is sick and to be restored to health, not his body, not the tissues.[10] Homeopathy views a sick person as having a dynamic disturbance in a hypothetical "vital force," and so reject the standard medical diagnoses of named diseases.[11]

Critics of homeopathic medicine frequently describe it as pseudoscience[12] and quackery.[13] The theory of homeopathy is inconsistent with known laws of chemistry and physics, since it states that extreme dilution makes drugs more powerful by enhancing their "spirit-like medicinal powers."[14] Placebo-controlled clinical trials have given both negative and positive results, but most trials have methodological problems, and better-quality trials are more likely to give negative results.[15] Additionally, cases have been reported of life-threatening illness resulting from attempts to treat serious conditions solely with homeopathic remedies

it's quackery. There is absolutely no science behind it, it's a stone-age concept and has no place in modern society.

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