Does homoeopathic medicine really work or is it merely psychological?

Answer 1

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.