alt Hacker NewsDon't know about right, but for a while it worked better than "regular" medicine. At least it wouldn't kill you, when the alternative was intensive bloodlettings and purgatives.
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bonesss • today at 4:56 AM
As I recall homeopathy does pretty fine statistically compared to many treatments. Not because the water does anything, but because the provider has time, and talks to patients about their problems and life.
A lot of doctors are shoving people out the door based on their first thought inside a short appointment as they type up a prescription.
Homeopathy is ineffective kookery, but our medical system has some well known gaps.
> for a while it worked better than "regular" medicine. At least it wouldn't kill you
Homeopathy was invented after the discovery of germ theory [1][2]. So not really. And homeopathy has always suffered from an adulteration problem.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy