Does homoeopathic medicine really work or is it merely psychological?
On one hand, homeopathy is often regarded as nonsense and a sham
by the scientific community. In broad terms, homeopathy is a belief
in alternative medicine in which something that causes the symptoms
of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in the
ill.
All valid experiments have either indicated homeopathy to have
no better an effect than placebo, or that the experiment itself was
biased in favor of homeopathy. Various scientific journals and
replicated experiments have shown homeopathy to have no effect
beyond what drinking water does.
In essence, it is believed that being "cured" by homeopathy is a
psychological result, where the mindset of the patient believes
themself to be healed by the "medication" which causes the brain to
suppress thoughts about any symptoms. This in turn causes the
patient to believe and feel as if they are healed, when in reality
they are not.
On the other hand, proponents of homeopathy believe there are
scientific plausible mechanism of action of 'potentised high
dilutions'. 'Super-avogadro dilutions' is believed in homeopathy to
stimulate the biological activity and restore the homeostatic
mechanism. All system of medicines are prepared and administered in
doses whose ingredients can be quantified to be below Avogadro's
limit except for homeopathic medicine which is available both below
(hormetic) as well as above Beyond the Reciprocal of Avogadro
Number (BRAN), also known as avogram, Avogadro's limit.