Let me simplify it for you with a very simple example:

When a baby cries there are many ways to pacify.

i. Show your anger to the child, freighten the child by using angry signs with the eye, freighten it by showing signs of beating with the hand, actually pinch or beat, hit hard, close its mouth, or chop its head off – All these methods are offensive methods. Each of these methods add to the agony of the child, adds to the wrath of the child, add to build up emotions in the child, add to its revenge mentality, adds up to make him an enemy to the constant tormentor, add to his resolve to revenge the tormentor. makes a lasting negative impression in his mind. And may end up in attacking the tormentors.

2. Yet another method, show all peaceful gestures, smile at the child, pat the child, ask him the reason for this crying, persuade him not to cry, give what is wanted by him, raise his confidence in you, and make him act according to what you wish, show him affection, show him love, love him deeply and all his anger, vengeance, or any negative feelings will be dissolved, he will not only stop crying but will act according to what ever you wish or say. This is a natural approach and closer to nature and is followed in practice as in Ayurvedic system of medicine.

3. The third and best thing for the baby to stop crying is to feed the baby. The cause has been found and the best possible remedy has been given. The mouth has been sealed by a natural method as the baby sucks for the milk. The milk is tasty and rejuvenating and increases the strength, the health and everything the child wish for. It sub-atomically helps the child to grow and develop into a whole human being. What the milk does is to strengthen the life force in the child. This is closer to homeopathic approach. This closer to homeostasis.

This is where the macrocosm and microcosm are in absolute harmony and which can be considered as healthy state of living or health itself. That mind and that body conduct the life in such a way that the life lived in such an environment would not be anything less than the biblical paradise.

The child loses those whole benefits, the moment it start taking the tinned milk. Apart from losing all the natural nutrition, the child loses its affection for the mother, the bondage the milk creates with the mother and therefore the father, and all other emotional attachments and lives and conducts a life which is against homeostasis and natural principles. And incourse of time starts receiving the ailments because of its reduced life force in the child due to its sedentary life style or upbringing.

If you liken the e.g. no.1 to Offensive systems of medicines, you will see they are applicable to human body in the same pattern. When an organ or the body wails due to a morbid condition, what does the outside world do to it. It calls the morbid condition by the name of a particular sickness and conceive it as being brought about by a particular germ and start attacking the body and its parts by different sets of medicines which those who have done some research in it had said had cured x and y rats or guinea pigs and therefore it should cure the human beings also. And without knowing what is the content or reaction or the action of a medicine and a whole set of medicines how they interact with each other inside each individual, irrespective of these facts being ignored, the medicine is injected and applied attacking the germs, killing the germs, suppressing, the germs, managing the disease, controlling the disease,damaging natural flora and fauna in stomach, damaging the parts of the body, damaging the system, with a host of side effects which becomes cause for further morbid conditions.

But, they never pause to think for a moment, what is the actual cause of the malady? Is it because of a germ had entered the body or is it because a germ which had entered the body has been received and welcomed by the body? The convention medicine system believes that the germ has entered the body and attacked the body, whereas the germ which is always entering the body in billions every day is not making everyone sick day in and out, it is only when the body accepts the germs that the individual becomes sick.

Why this acceptance? Because the life force in the body has depleted due to the kind of life led by the individual. What can we do to make the body healthy so that it does not receive diseases? We have to find out those forces which encourages life force, love and beaffectionate with life forces, which are similar to the life forces and become one with it and activate it so that it no more receives the germs. To make the life force, function the way it ought to function, to make it function the way it is designed to function.

What homeopathic medicines does is only to that end. So it looks like a placebo to the fence sitter because it never leave a trace for anyone to test in the laboratory, since it is acting in a subatomic level where the microscopes of the modern world have not reached nor the scanners or MRIs. The science can only see them and reveal them but science cannot reveal the mysteries behind their existence and how precisely they work in further differentiated form.

The end of the research of the science at one point in time, may be a dopamine, but a million years of research and new machines and equipment may reveal a whole universe inside that dopamine. What the homeopathic and other kinds of medicines dealing with a whole set of philosphy which are undecipherable to some and understandable to some as only Placebos do, is to go into those unknown universe and act and react and awaken those life forces hitherto unknown to us whithout our beckoning and prompt them to work the way they ought to work. That is the nuclear aspects of homeopathic system of medicine which a gross mind in a material plane of consciousness with a few lab instruments in front of them and looking upon making money cannot comprehend and understand.

Anyone who have not tasted the milk of kindness will boast over the taste of tinned milk. In a universe where water is boiled to kill its life giving cells in it, where milk is boiled to kill the life in it alongwith the so called germs, where the air is polluted with all kinds of toxins, a healthy body can never be possible and the mind which is end product of that body can never recognise the right from the wrong. They will always live in a world of illusion, taking illusion for reality like the Plato’s cavemen. Conventional medicine thopugh apparently life saving are in many cases a temporary solution, just as materialism and material plane of consciousness is transitory and worthless pursuit.
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thoughts.

on the other hand some people do seem to benefit from it. but people who oppose this claim that it works like a placebo in those cases. (meaning that it works because people believe that it will work)

i don’t know the answer to your question and anyone who claims that he is 100% sure on this seems to know something that the rest of humanity doesn’t.

there is no harm in giving it a try but i want to warn you that if you have a serious illment you should also see a regular doctor. there are known cases where people have died because they put all there fait in unproven types of alternative medicine while regular medicine would have easily cured them.
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Do people subjectively report "feeling better" when they take homeopathic preparations ? Absolutely.

Does a boo-boo "feel better" when your mommy kisses it?
Absolutely.

Is there any evidence taking a homeopathic preparation has any effect on the natural history or course of an illness when measured objectively?
Absolutely not.

Science isn’t based on "personal testimony". That is reserved for religious belief and alternative medicine. Both are faith based and entirely subjective philosophies.

EDIT Gypsy G. What you are describing is not homeopathic.

Pzler. You are incorrect when you say "there is no convincing proof either way" Homeopathy is one of the more soundly debunked of the altmed practices. It’s just that its acolytes don’t accept the evidence, any more than Christians will accept that Jesus was just a man. I appreciate your effort to be fair and balanced, but you are not factually correct.

Johnny K does a lot of nimble dancing around the issue, but is essentially saying that homeopathy is untestable. That is not true. It is easily testable, and when it is tested, it is found to just as, and no more effective than placebo pills. Which is all it is.
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Try reading "Trick or Treatment? The undeniable truth about alternative medicine"
One of it’s co-authors is Dr Edzard Ernst, who is a FORMER homeopath in England and a medical doctor, and professor of alternative medicine at Cambridge university

Homeopathy relies on an individual’s subjective and objective constitutional symptoms. Constitutional symptoms are those that make us different from everyone else: Some like spicy food, others do not. Some sleep on their stomachs, others on their side. Some tolerate humidity and sunshine, others get heat exhaustion. Additionally, health history, family health history, and hereditary influences all play a part in remedy selection.

This is a reason that, under the care of a homeopath, people were healing from health problems such as Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FMS) and, more recently, the recurrence of whooping cough years before a conventional diagnosis could even be made.

Iit is important to understand that homeopathy is the philosophy and reason for taking a remedy, not the vial of remedy itself.

In homeopathy, there is the equivalent to conventional medicine’s "first-aid" kit. Without understanding and applying homeopathic principles to each remedy given, however, the person may be taking a homeopathic remedy, without being homeopathically treated.

This is the main reason for failure in self-help homeopathy, as well as through practitioners who combine homeopathy with their general practice.

Homeopaths certified to practice classical homeopathy not only help acute care problems (coughs, colds, ear infections, digestive upsets, etc.), but chronic health problems resistant to both conventional medicine and other healing modalities, at times even those considered incurable.

We receive referrals from psychologists, MDs, psychiatrists, veterinarians, chiropractors, acunpuncturists, herbalists, and more.

To answer your question – speaking from personal holistic healing experience spanning 40 years, professional (homeopathic) experience approaching 30 years: yes.
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And none of the above cause heart and liver damage like Nexium.

Pzler:

NO HOMEOPATH WILL EVER TELL A PATIENT NOT TO SEEK MEDICAL HELP.
If a practitioner does tell them not to, then they are a genuine quack on an ego trip, not a healer.

I’ve worked with a DOM from 3 years now, and she always encourages seeking the advice of an MD if I feel more out of sorts than usual. I treat most of my ailments with herbs, but there are times where modern drugs are necessary.
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