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'''Homeopathy''' is an [[alternative medicine]].<ref name="pmid12492603">{{cite journal |author=Ernst E |title=A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy |journal=Br J Clin Pharmacol |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=577–82 |year=2002 |pmid=12492603 |doi= 10.1046/j.1365-2125.2002.01699.x|pmc=1874503 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_british-journal-of-clinical-pharmacology_2002-12_54_6/page/577|accessdate=2008-02-12}}</ref><ref name="shang">{{cite journal |author=Shang A, Huwiler-Müntener K, Nartey L| display-authors = etal|title=Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy |journal=Lancet |volume=366 |issue=9487 |pages=726–732 |year=2005 |pmid=16125589 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67177-2| s2cid = 17939264}}</ref><ref name=NatureWhenToBelieve>{{cite journal|title=When to believe the unbelievable|journal=Nature|volume=333|issue=30|pages=787|year=1988|doi=10.1038/333787a0|bibcode=1988Natur.333Q.787.|s2cid=4369459}}</ref> It was created in the [[18th century]] by Samuel Hahnemann. The theory behind homeopathy is that an ill person can be healed with very small amounts of something that produces the [[symptom]]s of the [[illness]] in a healthy person. [[Scientist]]s say that homeopathy does not work and only makes people think they feel better (this is called the [[placebo]] effect.)<ref name="pmid12492603" /><ref name=Ernst>{{cite journal |author=[[Edzard Ernst|Ernst E]], Pittler MH |title=Efficacy of homeopathic arnica: a systematic review of placebo-controlled clinical trials |journal=Archives of Surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) |volume=133 |issue=11 |pages=1187–90 |year=1998 | url = http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/133/11/1187 |pmid=9820349 |doi=10.1001/archsurg.133.11.1187}}</ref>
==Creation==
Homeopaths make their medicines by taking the ingredients, adding [[water]], and shaking the mixture. They then take a drop of the mixture, throw out the rest, and add more water. They do this usually 30 times but sometimes up to 200 times. They call it potentisation. Hahnemann said this would bring out the "spirit-like medicinal powers held within a drug".<ref>[http://www.hpathy.com/philosophy/hahnemann-organon261to270.asp ''Organon of Medicine,''] Samuel Hahnemann, combined 5th/6th edition</ref> [[Science]] can show how many [[atoms]] or [[molecules]]—tiny things that cannot be divided up any more—of the original substance are left in the homeopathic drug. Most homeopathic drugs do not contain even a single molecule of the original substance.<ref name="Weissmann">{{cite journal |author=Weissmann G |title=Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts, and the Prince of Wales |journal=FASEB J. |volume=20 |issue=11 |pages=1755–8 |year=2006 |pmid=16940145 |url=http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/11/1755 |doi=10.1096/fj.06-0901ufm|s2cid=9305843 }}</ref> Homeopaths believe that the solution carries a "memory" of the original substance.<ref name="shang" /><ref name="NatureWhenToBelieve" /> Science says that goes against the laws of [[physics]] and [[chemistry]].<ref name="Weissmann" />
==Disputes==
Homeopathy became popular because it was created at a time when medicine did not work very well and could make people sick.<ref>[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=2260507&pageindex=1#page British Medical Journal: Blood-letting], page 283, [[March 18]] [[1871]], retrieved on [[March 21]] [[2008]]</ref> Back then, taking homeopathy might have kept people from getting hurt by bad doctors. However, medicine has improved since then, and now helps a lot more than it hurts people. Some homeopaths have told their patients not to take medicines like [[antibiotic]]s and [[vaccine]]s that could cure (or keep them from getting) [[:wikt:dangerous|dangerous]] diseases.<ref name="pmid9243229">{{cite journal |author=Ernst E |title=The attitude against immunisation within some branches of complementary medicine |journal=Eur. J. Pediatr. |volume=156 |issue=7 |pages=513–515 |year=1997 |pmid=9243229 |doi=10.1007/s004310050650 |s2cid=25420567 }}</ref><ref name="pmid8554846">{{cite journal |author=Ernst E, White AR |title=Homoeopathy and immunization |journal=The British Journal of General Practice: The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners |volume=45 |issue=400 |pages=629–630 |year=1995 |pmid=8554846 |pmc=1239445 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Ernst E |title=Rise in popularity of complementary and alternative medicine: reasons and consequences for vaccination |journal=Vaccine |volume=20 Suppl 1 |issue= |pages=S90–3; discussion S89 |year=2001 |pmid=11587822 |doi=10.1016/S0264-410X(01)00290-0}}</ref><ref name=malaria2>{{cite news |first=Meirion |last=Jones |title=Malaria advice 'risks lives' |date=2006-07-14 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5178122.stm |accessdate=2007-07-25 }}</ref><ref name = "minimum-67-4">[https://www.homeopathicology.com/homeopathy-how-homeopathy-work/#who-trust-homeopathy Critical review of ''The Science of Homeopathy''] from the ''British Homoeopathic Journal'' Volume 67, Number 4, October 1978</ref>

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