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Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.
A real doctor wouldn't believe in the banging-on-wood-like-cures-like-nonsense of homeopathy,
Prescription drugs are so much more profitable. A good percentage of them create side effects worse than what they are treating.
Not to mention that doctors get kick backs from drug companies like conferences that are 1 week where only a day or two is an actual conference. The rest of the week is the family staying at the resort.
It's easy to make fun of homeopathy, because we are trained to think we are so much smarter by using prescription drugs that create terrible side effects that are rarely just physical. They are many times mental as well. It just crates a never ending use another drug to treat this side effect.
I know prescription drugs help people who are very sick and offer help that natural meds can't. However, most illness isn't life threatening and can be handled other ways like diet. It's the people who run to the doctor for minor things who like get the terrible side effects.
Homeopathy isn't even natural medicine though, it's literally just water. The idea that:
- "Like cures like" which is the indirect origin of the word homeopathy, which itself is Greek for "like-suffering", either of which concept are both ridiculous. You can't cure burns with bleach, but you can in homeopathy so long as you follow #2.
- That the more diluted something is, the more powerful it is. That's what those 10x, 13x, etc on homeopathy labels mean, those are levels of dilution, and the process it's done by is even more close to magic than I think most people realise, because...
- The way you dilute it is by putting your "like" chemical or typically flower or plant into water in a vial, then you bang it on a wooden plank a certain number of times, then you take a drop of that, put it into another vial, and then bang that, and you repeat the process until the dilution is so high that there's less than typically a single molecule of the original chemical/mineral/etc left.
- The more diluted, how many Xs there are, is related to its power. So 13 times dilution is more powerful than 10 times dilution.
I'm willing to believe that there are natural cures from plants and other things, and certainly this must be true, but I can't possibly believe that the more you dilute something the more powerful it is. That's not just pseudoscience, that's stupidity, you don't make coffee or tea more caffeinated by making it 99.999% milk.... unless you bang it on wood first of course.
I don't think most followers of homeopathy are stupid themselves though because they don't know the process and if they did far less people would believe in it, but many who do still believe in it do so because they believe in "water memory" and other nonsense like "water can take the form of other chemicals and your body read them like data off a hard drive"... which makes me wonder why that's superior to the original chemical/mineral in the first place.
Our bodies are actually pretty good at healing themselves, sometimes in surprising and amazing ways that even surprise doctors, but the problem is that when people take or use homeopathic medicine they attribute just the inevitable healing done by their own bodies to homeopathy.
