This post might be offending to homeopathy aficionados. I don’t care.
Got this mail in the evening:
Dear All,
The Campus Life council has arranged for the availability of the Homeopathic Medicine which helps to develop immunity against all kinds of Flu including the Swine Flu. For this purpose, we have appointed representatives in the Hostels who will be distributing the medicine.
Does homeopathy work? Various articles I found over the net claim it doesn’t. Wikipedia article says: Homeopathy is unsupported by modern scientific research. The extreme dilutions used in homeopathic preparations usually leave none of the original material in the final product.
Homeopathy medicines are based upon the “water memory” effect. The idea is as plainly epic as it sounds. The idea is, the more you “dilute” the drug, the more “potent” it becomes because the water actually “remembers” the drug.
Physicist Robert L. Park, former executive director of the American Physical Society, has noted that (from Wikipedia).
Since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.
No, I don’t believe in homeopathy. And for something like swine flu, I suggest you too don’t.
PS0: Happy Independence Day to you all!
Shubham Gupta
But whats wrong with trying the medication? [See I too am not a staunch supporter of it. And also these medicines do not have a side effect.]
gaganpreet
Nothing will happen if you take the medication anyway.
Vinushree
homeopathy works … i have used them for flu and skin infection
jagdish
Homeopathy works for many diseases though not for all
Tanmay
Ofcourse these drugs wont have any side effect…as there is no drug in it
But they do taste very sweeeet
Dr. Manhattan
“Does homeopathy work? Various articles I found over the net claim it doesn’t. Wikipedia article says: Homeopathy is unsupported by modern scientific research. The extreme dilutions used in homeopathic preparations usually leave none of the original material in the final product.”
The Modern Scientific Research is not mature enough to explain many of the things, one of them being Homeopathy.
Prakhar
It Works sometimes…. but is quite slow….
Animesh
Whether it works or not, Homeopathy would atleast calm down all those who are so paranoiac right now that they will have a heart-attack by just hearing a sneezing sound!
gaganpreet
Homeopathy works nothing but by the placebo effect.
@Tanmay – Yeah, why don’t you try honey instead. It’s sweet and healthier.
@Dr. Manhattan – So what’s your point?
@Animesh – Yeah right.
Dr Prabhat Tandon
” Is Homeopathy a trusted science or a placebo ” is always a big question for many who doubt about there efficacy , click http://drprabhattandon.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/is-homeopathy-trusted-science-or-a-placebo/ for vastly but still incomplete list of scientific trials …