Quote: "It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann."
A system of medicine that uses highly diluted substances to stimulate the body's innate healing abilities.
Quote: "They believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people."
Quote: "Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution."
Quote: "In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent."
Quote: "Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product."
Quote: "Homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent remember the original substance after its removal."
Quote: "Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease."
Quote: "All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and biology contradicts homeopathy."
Quote: "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."
Quote: "Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the United States in 1825."
Quote: "Homeopathy was able to appear relatively successful, as other forms of treatment could be harmful and ineffective."
Quote: "By the end of the century, the practice began to wane, with the last exclusively homeopathic medical school in the United States closing in 1920."
Quote: "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."
Quote: "In the 21st century, a series of meta-analyses have shown that the therapeutic claims of homeopathy lack scientific justification."
Quote: "National and international bodies have recommended the withdrawal of government funding for homeopathy in healthcare."
Quote: "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."
Quote: "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."
Quote: "France removed funding in 2021."
Quote: "Spain has also announced moves to ban homeopathy and other pseudotherapies from health centers."
Quote: "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."