"Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann."
Involves the use of homeopathy in the treatment of animals, including pets, livestock, and wildlife.
Introduction to Homeopathy: This topic covers the basics of homeopathy, including its history, philosophy, and principles.
Materia Medica: This topic focuses on the study of homeopathic remedies and their properties.
Repertory: This topic covers the use of repertories, which are reference books that help in selecting the appropriate remedies based on symptoms.
Case-taking: This topic includes learning how to gather information from the patient's history and presenting symptoms to determine the correct remedy.
Potentization: This topic covers the process of diluting and succussing remedies to increase their potency.
Law of Similars: This topic explains the principle of treating like with like in homeopathy.
Constitutional Remedies: This topic covers the use of remedies to address a patient's overall constitution and personality.
Acute Remedies: This topic covers the use of remedies to address acute and sudden illnesses.
Chronic Remedies: This topic covers the use of remedies to address chronic and long-standing health issues.
Clinical Applications: This topic includes the application of veterinary homeopathy in practice and its integration with other modalities.
"Homeopaths believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people."
"This doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or 'like cures like.'"
"Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent."
"Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product."
"Between each dilution homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent remember the original substance after its removal."
"Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease."
"All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and biology contradicts homeopathy. Homeopathic remedies are typically biochemically inert and have no effect on any known disease."
"The fundamental implausibility of homeopathy as well as a lack of demonstrable effectiveness has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud."
"Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century."
"It was introduced to the United States in 1825."
"The trend corresponded with the rise of the New Age movement, and may be in part due to chemophobia, an irrational aversion to synthetic chemicals, and the longer consultation times homeopathic practitioners provided."
"A series of meta-analyses have shown that the therapeutic claims of homeopathy lack scientific justification."
"National bodies from Australia, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and France, as well as the European Academies' Science Advisory Council and the Russian Academy of Sciences have all concluded that homeopathy is ineffective."
"The National Health Service in England no longer provides funding for homeopathic remedies and asked the Department of Health to add homeopathic remedies to the list of forbidden prescription items."
"France removed funding in 2021."
"Spain has also announced moves to ban homeopathy and other pseudotherapies from health centers."
"Homeopathy is characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud."
"Clinical trials have been conducted and generally demonstrated no objective effect from homeopathic preparations."
"During this period, homeopathy was able to appear relatively successful, as other forms of treatment could be harmful and ineffective."