Eczemol - Evidence

Evidence

Homeopathy
Claims Proponents claim that illnesses can be treated with specially prepared extreme dilutions of a substance that produces symptoms similar to the illness. Homeopathic remedies rarely contain any atom or molecule of the substance in the remedy.
Related scientific disciplines Chemistry, Medicine
Year proposed 1807
Original proponents Samuel Hahnemann
Subsequent proponents Organizations: Boiron, Heel, Miralus Healthcare, Nelsons, Zicam
Individuals: Deepak Chopra, Paul Herscu, Robin Murphy, Rajan Sankaran, Luc De Schepper, Jan Scholten, Jeremy Sherr, Dana Ullman, George Vithoulkas
Pseudoscientific concepts

The medicinal claims of homeopathy are unsupported by the collective weight of modern scientific research. There is an overall absence of sound statistical evidence of therapeutic efficacy, which is consistent with the lack of any biologically plausible pharmacological agent or mechanism. Abstract concepts within theoretical physics have been invoked to suggest explanations of how or why remedies might work, including quantum entanglement, the theory of relativity and chaos theory. However, the explanations are offered by nonspecialists within the field, and often include speculations that are incorrect in their application of the concepts and not supported by actual experiments. Several of the key concepts of homeopathy conflict with fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry.

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