LillyPip , 7 months ago

Homeopathy had its origins in treating the whole person and not just the disease

That’s actually holistic medicine, not homeopathy. Homeopathy was invented in the late 1700s as an evolution of the medieval belief in humours.

Homeopathy’s premise is that ‘like cures like’ (a substance that causes symptoms in healthy people can cure them in sick people), coupled with a belief that water has a spiritual memory that can be unlocked by ritually diluting and shaking until no molecules of the active ingredient remain. Common dilutions are 1:10^60 or higher.

Here’s a great write-up on what it is and how it began from the National Library of Medicine.

It’s commonly mistaken for holistic medicine, but it’s a very different (and potentially dangerous) thing.