24/9/15

Homeopathy, real or pseudoscience?

Homeopathy is consider nowadays as a pseudoscience, but, what is homeopathy?

Homeopathy was invented (Or based on the ideas) in the 1790s by a German doctor called Samuel Hahnemann. The bases of this ideas is that a substance that produces and illness, if it’s ingested in a really small amount it can cure that illness. An example, is the Colloidal Silver, where a little amount of silver is reduced in water and divided in ten parts, then they pick up one tenth of the liquid and dissolve it in water, and pick again a tenth of this solution. they follow this process loads of times more until they get the desired amount.

These, in a first look doesn’t make any sense, Maybe in the last solution there’s nothing of this substance left, but there is a huge amount of people that trust homeopathy.

Homeopathy is still the target of a lot of experiments, even thought none of the experiments that has been done had get any positive result.

For finishing, i would like to talk about a personal example. My grandmother was infected by a illness, and she was recommended to try this product I mentioned at the beginning, the Colloidal Silver. After trying this “medicine” for a year, her illness not only didn’t disappeared, it had increased, and she concluded that homeopathy could be summarized in two words: Expensive lie.