6 cheap analogues of homeopathic medicines

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The effect will be the same as from real homeopathy. Science guarantees.

1. Milk

The main thing you need to know about homeopathic medicines is that there is no active ingredient in them. To be absolutely precise: it is sometimes there, but in doses tending to zero.

Homeopathy is based on a high degree of dilution of beneficial chemical compounds. In the instructions, you can find the symbols X or D. They denote a tenfold dilution (1 part of the active substance in 9 parts of water), or C is the more popular centesimal (1 fraction of a substance in 99 water).

If you take the standard homeopathic dilution of 30C, you get this. Something useful is put in a test tube with water in a ratio of 1: 99 and mixed thoroughly. Then take a drop of the resulting solution, place it in a new vessel with water in the same proportion and shake it again. Then they again take a drop of the resulting solution and … In general, this procedure is done 30 times. The final result (and the result is pure, almost pure water) is applied to the base substance and is called a homeopathic remedy.

The basis, as a rule, is sugar in one form or another. For example, milk, that is, lactose. It is found in milk and milk products. In general, drink a teaspoon of milk or add it to coffee or tea - get about the same lactose dose.

2. Distilled water

Besides being useless, homeopathic medicines have an important quality - they are safe. Even if they contain explicit poisons. And this, by the way, also happens.

For example, with homeopathic poisons there is a big story that was retold in her book On the Internet, Someone Wrong! "Someone on the Internet is wrong!" famous journalist, popularizer of science Asya Kazantseva.

In 2009, the American singer Alexa Ray Joel (daughter of the famous Billy Joel) broke up with her boyfriend and decided to commit suicide. The girl took 15 pain relievers from her first aid kit, but then got scared and called rescuers.

In the hospital, where the recollected suicide was taken, it turned out that Alexa was absolutely healthy and nothing threatened her life. And it could not be otherwise, because the girl tried to kill herself with the homeopathic medicine Traumeel. Although it contains mercury, belladonna, sulfuric liver and other poisonous substances, their concentration is so low (pay attention to the degree of dilution D indicated in the composition) that they are not able to have any effect on the body.

Perhaps, if the singer took at least 1,500 tablets (which corresponds to 30 full jars of medicine), the doctors in the laboratory would be able to detect some minor deviations from the norm in her blood. And so the case of Alexa is the only documented example of the fact that homeopathy can still save lives.

3. Ice water, whipped in a shaker

Homeopaths explain Memorandum # 2 of the RAS Commission on Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research. ABOUT FALSE SCIENCE OF HOMEOPATHY, the healing effect of drugs is as follows: diluting the substance in water, they shake the test tube properly each time. The molecules of the active substance affect the molecules of the liquid, the water remembers this and then heals the body on its own.

This mechanism raises many questions. For example:

• How does water know what to memorize?
• There are always impurities in water, why doesn't it keep information from them?
• Why doesn't water remember information from the glass wall of the test tube?
• When memory water is applied to the sugar base of the tablet, the liquid evaporates altogether. How can the pill treat?

Homeopaths have no answers to these questions. So, if you are planning to use a properly whipped pacifier, it is better to shake up the water you are sure of the quality yourself. And drink, sincerely believing in its healing power.

4. Herbal tea

Sometimes herbal ingredients are added to homeopathic remedies, again in multiply diluted doses. We will not discuss herbal medicine here: it just works, but in this case we are not talking about it. Let's focus on homeopathy.

In essence, adding herbal ingredients is an attempt to manipulate the customer. A person sees such a remedy on the pharmacy shelf and builds a logical chain in his head: with herbs, it means, natural means, safe means it will help and not harm.

What will not harm is really a fact. But, like other homeopathic remedies, such a "medicine" will definitely not improve your condition. As we already wrote, the amount of active substances in it tends to zero.

5. Apple juice

One of the basic tenets of homeopathy is to treat like with like. According to it, homeopathic pharmacists are looking for a substance, the intake of which can cause symptoms similar to the signs of the disease, and on its basis they prepare a "working" medicine.

For example, in pharmacies you can find a homeopathic remedy for hangovers and alcohol addiction, which contains quite a lot of alcohol. It is, of course, not the main element of the drug (the amount of the main one tends to zero), but acts only as a solution-base. But it fits perfectly into the concept.

Of course, diluted ethyl alcohol cannot cure someone of a hangover, and even more so a destructive passion for alcohol. But if you really want to treat like like like, drink apple juice: it also has Estimates of Ethanol Exposure in Children from Food not Labeled as Alcohol-Containing alcohol, up to 0.77 g per liter. There is more ethanol in a glass of juice (200 ml) than in 10 drops of the mentioned homeopathic remedy recommended for a single dose.

6. Deep breathing

When homeopathy does work, scientists tend to explain it by the placebo effect.

Evidence of Clinical Efficacy of Homeopathy in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. A Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials. HMRAG. The Homeopathic Medicines Research Advisory Group were people who were healed by taking both overt pacifier drugs and homeopathy. There was no convincing evidence of a significant difference between the first and second scientists.

So, for example, it is not some homeopathic medicine that helps to calm down, but the belief that it can help. It is just as effective, but more economical, to believe in other ways to relieve stress and reduce anxiety. For example, deep breathing or playing sports.

There are a lot of homeopathic remedies. The complete list can be found in the Execution List, compiled by neurologist-epileptologist Nikita Zhukov. All of them are equally useless - like any product containing an active substance in a concentration of "one molecule per universe."

Since 2017, the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been insisting on Memorandum No. 2 of the RAS Commission on Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research. ABOUT THE FALSE SCIENCE OF HOMEOPATHY, that doctors should not prescribe homeopathic remedies, and pharmacies should sell such drugs on the same shelf with medicines with proven effectiveness. But so far, everything is still the same.