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Originally Posted by Rathji
I thought homeopathic products used the thing that caused the problem, and then reduced it?
The example I was given by my wife's witch doctor, err Homeopath, is that say hemlock causes stomach ache. Then the cure to a stomach ache would be to take hemlock and reduced it how ever many times and it creates the "anti-stomach ache"
Not that it changes the fact that they don't do anything, but might as well make sure everyone has the correct info.
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Yes and er, no. It is diluted to the point where there mathmatically cannot be any of the molecules of the original ingredient left (using Avegadro's number which is the number of atoms per mole you can show that the dilution is such where there is likely not one of the original molecules left). The concept of like-cures-like is not that crazy, but the whole "water has a memory" is a bit of a stretch.