In recent years, the sale of drugs with a low content of chemicals has proliferated, which in theory pose a lower risk to health and appeal to many patients. Over time, however, homeopathic medicine has proven to be more damaging than conventional medicine as many people choose these therapies to combat serious illnesses. In fact, many users continue to take miracle drugs whose effects are questioned by the scientific community.
Homeopathy is a type of alternative medicine that is based on two dogmatic principles promulgated by its creator Samuel Hahneman 200 years ago. The first one affirms that a substance that causes the same symptoms in the body as a disease has healing properties. The second affirms that an active principle is more effective the more diluted it is in water. Its foundations are far from the scientific method, which is why it has been classified as pseudoscience.
The production of medicines is based on immersing medicinal plants in an excipient (water, alcohol, sugar) for hours in order for it to “save in its memory” the healing properties of the raw material. Subsequently, this solution is diluted until it contains only one millionth of the initial molecule in its composition. As a result, we get a 99% aqueous drug that cures the same symptom in hundreds of different diseases .
Far from being suspicious of this clearly innocuous preparation, 29% of the European population is entrusted to homeopathic treatments when they experience a certain sensation of well-being, either induced by the placebo effect or by the effects of that microscopic dose of active ingredient. In any case, as the medical community argues, opting for a drug of doubtful efficacy that can put your life at risk is closer to being an act of faith than naturism .
