Does Homeopathy Work?

Last year leading pharmacy Boots confessed that they didn’t believe homeopathy works. Yet, despite this discovery and repeated scientific studies which prove that homeopathy produces the same results achieved in placebo tests, the National Health Service still spent over 4 million pounds  in 2009 developing homeopathic pills.

Overwhelmed by the NHS’s and Boot's ‘no harm’ attitude to homeopathy, over 300 protestors are now planning to take part in a group homeopathic overdose to help increase public knowledge about the ineffectiveness of homeopathic remedies.

During this public exhibitionwhich is set to take place on the 30th January 2010, all those actively involved in the protest will publicly swallow an entire box of 90 homeopathic pills to show that they are nothing more than fakes as well as hopefully prompt pharmacies to stop selling them.

Where was Homeopathy discovered?

Ask consumers and they will describe homeopathy as ‘all natural herbal medicine’ the majority of the substances contained within this complementary herbal medicine are so minisculethat there is nothing medicinal about them.

Yet further background checks into the creation of homeopathy has revealed that it is not strictly an herbal medicine, but is based on three medical concepts developed in the 1800's by Samuel Hahnemann. Threetheories which are still used to this day:

- The Law of Similars the theory where the cause of your illness can also cause them i.e. taking caffeine tablets to cure insomnia
- The Law of Infinitesimals where the more diluted the remedy is from water, the more concentrated it will be
- The Law of Succession where vigorous stirring of a homeopathic solution would further increase its potency

Assessing this information, it is completely understandable why activists are calling upon the government to order the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to assess whether it is appropriate for the National Health Service to pay for homeopathic remedies. Providing restricted if any positive results, all clinical trials point to the fact that they will not help your well-being.