@skadu, homeopathy is a fraud.
There isn’t really any legitimate question about this.
@Buttonstc, I have a feeling you are confusing “alternative medicine” in general, with homeopathy in particular. There may well be alternative medicines that work. Not homeopathy.
Just to be clear, here is how homeopathy works. Let’s say you want a sleeping pill. A homeopathic remedy would take caffeine—which is the opposite of a sleeping pill—and then dillute it, over and over again. The principle here is that you can get an effect X by diluting something that is the opposite of X, over and over again. The stronger the dilution, the stronger the effect.
This is absolute nonsense, for two reasons:
1. The principle is absolutely illogical. A small amount of X does not yield the opposite of X.
2. Even if the principle weren’t illogical, homeopathic remedies dillute the ingredients so much that there are no actual molecules of the ingredients left! When you take a homeopathic pill, it is literally just water. We know how the chemistry works.
It’s one thing to keep an open mind about alternative medicines. It’s another thing to give your hard-earned money on remedies that are proven to be frauds. Don’t be a sucker.