You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Dental homeopathy is the first subject to be unpicked in our new series of columns delving into possible pseudoscience in the world of dentistry. A basic principle is that 'like cures like', so that for instance onion extracts cure the symptoms of a cold where the eyes and nose are runny.
Another principle is that the tincture is diluted so that the original substance is no longer toxic and will not produce symptoms normally associated with it.
The British Homeopathic Dental Association BHDA 1 says a full consultation asks lots of questions about symptoms, but also about how a patient feels or even what they dream about or like to eat so that the remedy is patient specific.
There are remedies that offer help with anxiety, healing after surgery, bruising, muscle tenderness and temporal mandibular conditions. One common remedy is Arnica, a genus of perennial, herbaceous plants in the sunflower family, which is said to help with bruising and therefore purported to be useful after a lot of dental procedures.
Remedies originate from many different sources, say homeopaths, but include animal secretions, minerals, plants and energy sources such as sunlight and X-rays. People may focus on these 'natural ingredients', but most times they are undetectable. The BDHA admits there has not been much research done on homeopathy in dentistry. Most scientific bodies find that no rigorous, reliable scientific studies exist to support homeopathy.
Critics say homeopathic remedies are not actively harmful, but they contain no active molecules. The basic principles are counterintuitive, given what we know from modern science. For the placebo effect to occur, patients must believe they are receiving something that works, despite there being no evidence that it does.
Losing access to these remedies will kill two of my dogs. This is serious for us. I could give a rip why it works. It just does. And it saves lives. According to Dr Manish Agarwala, the homeopathic drug arsenicum album c is the perfect vaccine available now as a preventive and curative for COVID19 pandemic..
See Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. It is astounding how wild man is wreaking havoc through modern civilization, a society of specialists. The panacea is to have Public Interest Science as the basis of all policies. Manish Agarwala is just another homeopathic quack. Chay this is Manish Shukla here ,look I am going to be civil here and say that the writer of this article and your knowledge stems from lot of Ignorance regarding homeopathy. I encourage my patient to go for treatment what feels natural to them either allopathic ,acupuncture,ayurveda or homeopathy and it should make there immunity better.
You have no serious education. Vaccine, social distancing and masking are the only things that will solve the problem, not your silly sugar pills. Today Pfizer announced a positive trial for a vaccine and the whole stock market shook, even though testing is not complete. What happened when Homeopaths screamed nosodes, arsenia 30 and camphora 1M? They were told to keep quiet and not make baseless claims.
Except the scientifically ignorant Rajiv Bajaj, did anyone in the market bat their eye? Almost anyone with proper education knows what science is and what quackery is, what the value of a scientific study is, and what the value behind homeopaths shouting is. If there existed even one disease in which homeopaths can consistently show these miracles they claim against a placebo using any remedy, science would embrace homeopathy with open arms.
No need to explain mechanism. No need for all this water memory, quantum and nano particle bullshit. Just one disease. No explanations. How can it be a placebo effect on toddlers.. Do you think that toddlers who get blisters all over the body will continue to get blisters throughout their whole life? No, at some point they stop, even without treatment. Toddler immune system is constantly adapting to the world.
Its a placebo for them, not you. But this never happens. Like ever. Not even in one study are homeopathic miracles observed. They just lie like that to clients. What actually happens is in both treatment and placebo groups, a few babies will no longer have any episodes, immediately following pills. Rest will have some more episodes before getting better. Homeopaths are only arguing that in some of the badly done studies conducted by them, their pills seemed to slightly work better than a placebo.
When real researchers come and supervise, not even that shows up. Curare molecule is thoroughly understood. Its molecular structure, what receptors it interacts with and why it interacts with it — all are understood.
All the symptoms it produces are due to blocking the very specific actions of the receptors it interacts with. This is very definitive science.
It is a very well studied molecule, for more than a years. Homeopathic provings are just idiotic. Most of them have been done with no blinding, either not blinded to subject who would have known of curare it was well known in pre-scientific medicine or the homeopath summarizing notes is not blinded, allowing him to pick convenient symptoms.
In homeopathic dilutions which contain no molecules of curare, it would be an insult to chemistry and molecular biology to suggest any interaction. So homeopaths resort to imaginary magic energies vitalism to stupidly suggest interactions to explain imaginary effects. They will insist they can, but they never proved it to anyone.
And look at these ridiculous challenges. Prove it to all those national science academies I listed. I will accept their judgment. These are highly respected agencies in science. When I typed curare in Google Scholar, I got 1 lakh 77 thousand research papers, articles, books etc.
That is how well studied curare is. Curare molecule is too large to be absorbed. It is orally ineffective. It is too large to even enter the body when ingested, it will just be passed out unchanged. It has to be injected. So understand how ridiculous it is to suggest curare in homeopathy sugar pills, that too curare that has been diluted to the point of non-existence and claiming it somehow causes effects similar to injected effects.
Homeopaths get a big fat zero in chemistry and biology. They never understood any subjects, which is why they could not become real doctors and instead became fake doctors. Homeopathy just lacks common sense to anyone who knows science. This is also the reason why Homeopaths must never be given a Bridge Course to practice Modern Medicine. At most, they can work in medical records room of a real hospital, where they can fetch paperwork. I want to tell you that one can not judge anything before experiencing the phenomenon.
The ancient person were not aware of those electrons because there vision was limited upto solid matter. We will never able to find the most micro and initiative particles and most large form of matter that exists in the universe.
And today also there are many M. Doctors who have adapted homoeopathy after experiencing in their hospital only. They were also, once, not believing in the homoeopathy but still after experiencing they accepted it. And the for your arguement that these are only pills, sugar pills. Just try to take it on your own. Will you dare it? Juts check the physiopathology of of the medicines like curare and pilocarpine jaborandi name in homoeopathy and lots other also and compare it with the symptoms of homoeopathy.
You will definitely find the pathological relation. And in the book of pharmacology, it have been written multiple times that some medicines are working differently and in opposite manner when they are introduced in different doses, in large doses and in small doses. What is wrong with people like you? How are you passing out of schools? Are you all completely useless when it comes to science? Does a cancer patient know more about cancer or an oncologist?
Do you think if you survived cancer, it makes you an expert? Every time an idiotic homeopath gets cornered, he starts blabbering about quantum physics and nano particles.
You guys are in homeopathy because you were useless in understanding basic Newtonian Physics. Refer to the 12 Science Agency post I made. Do you realize that there are actual Quantum Physicists and Nano technology experts, in fact the top most international experts in these national science academies who all collectively declared that Homeopathy is complete nonsense?
Homeopaths say they have a medicine for every disease. Since their customers are very foolish, stories are enough for them. They even say they have medicines for congenital diseases and irreversible diseases like Rabies in hydrophobia. When you ask for proof, they never have any studies. They just have some stories that can never be verified. Homeopathy has no treatment for anything, just lies. There was never any truth in anything Homeopathy ever said about any disease. Dear sir, Next to God I believe in homeopathy just hoping to the readers if you are on the verge of giving up on your ailments at least give it a try.
Now I am not giving examples of other people but I myself have experienced good results though I have not done any course in homeopathy but I am trying to prove that homeopathy heals. We all know we are what we eat the creator has created everything on the earth usefull to something on this earth in short everything is useful to something just as humans are social beings and depend on each other we can include plants and minerals also in the society so homeopathic medicine also is made of plants and their extracts and most of the desease we face are either due to lack of something or excess of something.
Allopathy directly tried to cover the imbalance but it cures one decease only to generate a new desease and again cure the new desease to face another desease. Belief in homeopathy and belief in god are similar.
They are beliefs. No science. No proof. Just belief. But not medicine. We believe. There is a difference in knowing and believing. Patient: The medicine is not working. Homeopath: You just need to wait. It works slowly, on root cause. Patient: I seem to have this side effect. Homeopathy is purging it out. Patient: It is still not working. Homeopath: Well, here are things you should not have eaten or done.
Wait some more. With improved understanding of the science of medicine, homeopathy quickly fell out of fashion and by only two schools in the US were still teaching it. There is zero evidence to support the use of homeopathy. So US realized homeopathy is dumb almost exactly years ago and started using science for medicine.
I wonder in which year India will realize it is dumb. Then it will also fall quickly here. But we are very slow, so maybe it will fall only slowly. I mean we still think bullshit and cow urine are medicines. What a backwards country we are. Berlin Wall — Berlin wall caused problems for Germany. These donkeys literally thought there is emotional magic in berlin wall that causes depression. How stupid does one have to be to think like this? Have you studied homoeopathic?
Or just publishing for the sake of modern medicine. In my opinion there must be some personal or financial interest to write this post. Okay, let me tell One thing, has modern medicine got any cure or vaccine for the same? Why they are prescribing only vitamins? No medicine? You will argue that remdesivir is there, has it been proven effective in covid? Has trial results you have with you?
If not you must not criticise any pathy keeping biased opinion in your mind. Rest, if there is financial interests, keep writing so as you will get more money.
After all many media and media persons are corrupted and working for money. May god give you intelligent brain. This is why I call homeopathic quacks donkey brains. Here are the same questions these idiots repeat. The questions are. Have you studied my quackery? Are you paid by some pharma company? Your quackery has been scientifically studied a few thousand times by scientists. That is what the whole article is about. For you, studying means have you been brainwashed by it?
I have read your homeopathic texts. Bullshit in every page. Every single page. None of the authors know how to think. The homeopathy authors you think are the best and smartest are also stupid. Its just that they are smarter than you, which is not a big deal. Yes, obviously modern medicine has cures and vaccines for most of the common diseases so much so that diseases that were once common and life-threatening are now uncommon or minor inconveniences.
Did Chloroquin work for malaria? What basis do you have to accuse anyone that they are paid by a pharma company to write? Just throw an allegation and hope you have sown a doubt.
So many people believe it, how can so many people be wrong? How can something that is not true to believed for so long? I believe it is true. I say I have seen it work. So how can it be false? So you think that anything that is wrong is only believed by a small amount of people, for a very short period of time and you never believe anything wrongly. And you obviously think you are the most reasonable person in the world who is never fooled.
Just look at the audacity of this homeopath donkey, Kiran Kulkarni!!! The author is already intelligent. She wrote an article summarizing science on homeopathy showing that it is just a superstition that all scientists in the world will agree with, while a donkey brain like you has no capacity to understand even one science paper.
Kiran Kulkarni, it is you who is the brainless donkey here with no hope of ever being intelligent. It is you who still thinks diseases are caused by miasma and life energy, you education-less ignorant fool.
You are also the one making money by prescribing empty sugar pills and charging tens of thousands of rupees for just acting like you are treating asthma, with one paisa of sugar and nothing else. The rest is profit for homeo pharma and you. You fake doctor scammers sell 16 billion dollars of fake medicine per year. And you have the audacity of falsely charging that a writer for a free web site is making money falsely and unethically?
Lol, you use allopathy and see how mentally unbalanced you are. Taking this fight personally, the most pathetic comment i have seen in this tab. I hope your mental sickness gets cured via homeopathy one day.
And please read your own comment and tell me, does that look like a mentally balanced person has spoken about his observations and views. True, arguing to lunatics like you mostly can hurt my brain. This is public service. I am sacrificing some of my mental comfort for the country. Apparently, I am one of the few sane people among a mob of lunatics. Almost anywhere outside India, I would be a simple normal person with a scientifically educated viewpoint.
If you read my comments and instead of reacting to me, actually understand the arguments and follow the links I provided, for that matter, the links the author has provided, you will be less likely to be classified as mentally retarded.
I know that many of you t-h-i-n-k you are smart, or at least better than average intelligence people. But let me tell you that you are nothing of that type. After all the information I provided, if you people are unable to understand how stupid homeopathy really is because you t-h-i-n-k you saw it work, you neither have good education nor do you know how to think and analyze by looking up research.
If you still are unable to understand any of this, I am wondering how low your intelligence and education must be. I am trying to understand where you are on this scale. Are you dull, deficient or feeble-minded? An average college graduate should understand basic things like correlation, causation, basic understanding of what studies are.
You all obviously don't. I mean, seriously, who but someone with the brain of a donkey thinks in that diseases are caused by miasma and thinks solutions can be infinitely diluted? Who but idiots who never read one page of biology or chemistry? That was stupid even in If you are stupid enough to say that homeopathy is real, your degree needs to be taken and burnt. Whatever college said that they educated you need to be shut down.
Your intelligence and education is only good enough to sweep the streets or clean toilets, not anything more than that. Your chemistry and biology knowledge is like that. You spent how many years of education and still are dumb enough to think that miasma cause disease and not even understand dilution? Mental helpline number : Delhi You really need it, Mr. Take a look at your own comments, and think again about the symptoms of insecurity you are actually showing.
Good luck for your future. Debate is between intelligent people Kapil. None of you are fit for any debate on any topic. I am not debating any of you. I am educating you fools. I have read a lot of bullshit from so called mr chay. He must be critic and a nonsense person in his life.
He does not know about homeopathy and only he is barking and barking. I request all the viewers not to read this type of comments by these type of bullshit people. There are a lot of diseases which could only be cured by homeopathy and on other side there are also many diseases which could be cured by allopathy only. So there is no point of condemning a pathy. Both should go hand by hand. No my dear. Unlike you, I am an educated person, well-informed of exactly what the science is saying about homeopathy and how they proved it as pure bullshit.
You on the other hand, are a proper i d i o t. Everything homeopaths say is bullshit. There are no miasms or vital energy. Those are ignorant beliefs. They teach you the history of these ignorant ideas even in school and you guys seem to have no real education. Nobody has to believe what I say. They just have to look what the whole world is saying. You liars constantly pretend that I am the only critic.
I have already proven with reports that I am merely saying what all real governments and all real scientists all over the world are saying. Homeopathy Is Not an Effective Treatment, Experts Say — Time Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report finds — Guardian Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study — Independent Homeopathy is not an effective treatment for any health condition, report concludes — British Medical Journal The debate about homeopathy is over.
These verdicts prove it — Spectator. Bireswar Saran, a little down in the board, said Samuel Hahnemann is the father of Allopathy, not just Homeopathy. Allopathy is a lie invented by homeopaths. Neither Homeopathy nor Allopathy can cure anything. What actual doctors practice is not Allopathy. It is science based medicine. You need to get good marks in science to study Medicine.
People who get bad marks in science go to homeopathy and get a degree in bullshit. No one who got good marks in science goes to Homeopathy. I borrowed this from a wiki on bullshit. These are the same tactics are quacks use. All of this is true for homeo bullshit. Anecdotal evidence: Prefers to use testimonials over actual studies. Panacea: Is a simple idea that purports to be the one answer to many problems often including many diseases.
Science woo: Uses words that sound scientific but make no sense in their context nano particles 2. Quote-mined studies that, if bent properly, appear to support the woo. Appeal to authority: Claims that a scientific authority supports the woo; this is usually combined with a quote mine. Studies from different, unrelated fields. A hypothesis that remains virtually unchanged for years or decades, despite changes in the evidence for the woo.
This is sometimes presented as a strength. Good work done by the Print science writers. Please keep educating the Indian public on the scientific method. So true. Nobody in our Indian public knows what science is. But everybody is ready to start a clueless lecture on limitations on science. Just give it unlimited time. Our terrible press loves writing stories about how some questionable study proved some indirect benefit of an old belief, but does not write how a thousand beliefs were debunked or more importantly, h-o-w they were debunked.
One answer to all the nonsense about your homeopathy is that if the homeopathic treatment is wrong: How are millions of people in the world still being healed by homeopathic remedies?
You should only be a part of this mafia which is making money by fooling the people. There are exactly Z-E-R-O people that were ever healed by homeopathy.
A: Homeopathy is a safe, gentle, and natural system of healing that works with your body to relieve symptoms, restore itself, and improve your overall health.
It is extremely safe to use, even with very small children and pets, has none of the side effects of many traditional medications, and is very affordable.
A minimal, homeopathic dose of a substance that would normally cause symptoms such as the rash and itching from exposure to the poison ivy plant in a healthy person, when given to a sick person exhibiting those symptoms, will effect a cure.
This is why people can often take homeopathic Rhus toxicodendron poison ivy plant to cure their allergic reaction to poison ivy. With a history of experience spanning over years, homeopathic medicines are used by millions of patients and recommended by health care professionals around the world to relieve many acute health conditions such as allergies, coughs, colds, flu, stress, muscle pain and teething. Under the care of a trained health care practitioner, homeopathic medicines are successfully used for both acute illnesses, as well as chronic conditions, like asthma, depression, hypertension, and arthritis.
According to the World Health Organization WHO , homeopathy is the second largest medical system for primary health care in the world.
It is prevalent and widely accepted in many parts of the world including Europe, where over million people use it on a regular basis. In America, during the early s, the most prestigious medical schools in this country were homeopathic. A: Homeopathic medicated pellets contain only a little of an active ingredient for treatment of disease. These are known as highly diluted or "potentiated" substances.
Homeopathic medicines should be placed under the tongue of adults and children or in the cheek of an infant, where they will dissolve. It is preferable to take homeopathic medicines apart from meals. The appropriate dosage is always shown on the labeling and should be followed unless differently directed by your Health Care Professional.
A: Homeopathic medicines above 8x or 4C have a very low risk of side effects and no contraindications. The labeling of any lower attenuation products that might have concerns will provide appropriate warnings. Some homeopathic products are restricted to sale on a prescription basis to ensure they are used properly to obviate any problems. They can be safely taken with other conventional medications and are sometimes recommended to complement other treatments.
All homeopathic medicines must be manufactured in accordance with the guidelines of the HPUS, and manufacturers are regularly inspected by the FDA and must comply with all current Good Manufacturing Practices. A: It is recommended that you avoid touching the homeopathic pellets and tablets with your fingers or hands. Since the homeopathic medicine is thinly adsorbed onto the surface of most pellets and tablets, any moisture on your fingers or hands may release the medicine at the point of contact rather than in your mouth.
In addition, any oils on your skin may stick on the surface of the pellets or tablets and impede the proper absorption once the medicine is in your mouth. A: Do not panic. Homeopathic medicines are very safe, non-toxic, and have a very wide margin of safety. It is unlikely that your child could become seriously ill just from taking an entire bottle at one time.
See if the product label has a hour emergency information number. You can also call your Regional Poison Control Center. Most are informed of the wide margin of safety of homeopathic medicines. However, if your child does develop symptoms that concern you, please consult your own physician or health care provider right away. A: This will depend on the specific condition and the severity of symptoms. Emotional and acute conditions often respond within minutes to the correctly chosen medicine, as do certain acute well-defined physical problems.
Chronic conditions like arthritis may take longer or more frequent doses to return to the desired state of well being. During periods of acute stress, more frequent dosing may be necessary to support and rebalance your body on both a physical and emotional level. Diet, lifestyle and medical history may also play a role in how quickly a patient will respond.
A: Unless the product label provides any warnings to the contrary, it is safe to use your homeopathic medicine while taking other drugs, herbs or supplements, as there are generally are no known drug-to-drug interactions or contraindications.
In general it is recommended that you should refrain from taking your homeopathic medicine at the same moment as your other medicines and supplements so the two do not interfere with each other.
An easy to follow rule is to simply wait 15 minutes before or after taking the other products. Of course, if you are under the care of a health care practitioner, please follow the guidelines provided by them for your use of the homeopathic medicine. A: Homeopathic medicines are made according to a precise and controlled process of successive homeopathic attenuation.
This process is sometimes referred to as dynamization, dilution or potentization. The result was a very different book that she titled Homeopathy Reconsidered. Analysts project that the global homeopathic market will grow For those who buy into it, homeopathy is synonymous with holistic health.
Surely there are more answers out there, more remedies, homeopaths argue, than ibuprofen, antacids, statins, SSRIs, and surgery. To its followers, homeopathy does.
But these products are not FDA-approved. In , the Federal Trade Commission began a crackdown on the homeopathic remedies that were filling grocery shelves, mandating that they clearly state that they are not, in fact, medicine. It should be clarified, however, that homeopathic drug products are legally marketed in the United States, ensuring consumers have access to safe and clearly identified homeopathic products from which to choose for their healthcare needs.
Requests for comment from another leading homeopathy organization — the National Center for Homeopathy — went unanswered by the time of publication. He dosed himself with large quantities of cinchona bark, ingesting it repeatedly to document the fever, sweats, and nausea that set in.
His aim: to test whether the remedy for malaria produced the symptoms of malaria in a healthy person. It did. Soon, he defined several so-called laws; two are guiding principles of homeopathy today:. Late 18th century medicine revolved around balancing the four humors, most frequently through bloodletting.
The American Institute of Homeopathy, founded in , even arrived three years before the American Medical Association. Conventional medicine eventually became increasingly science-oriented, discarding bloodletting and the like for more effective and drastically less dangerous treatments. Homeopathy, by contrast, maintained its original dogma, one that hinged on individualized treatment and made it nearly impossible to conduct clinical trials that adhered to the scientific method.
By the s, homeopathy was even recognized by the US government. Royal Copeland , a surgeon, New York City commissioner of health, storied US senator, and homeopath, used his medical authority to lend credibility to homeopathy and his political influence to ensure its recognition by the law.
The Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act of oversees homeopathy to this day. In the world of homeopathy, there are believers, and there are skeptics. There are also passive participants who seek over-the-counter remedies as supplements, believing in these pastilles and ointments, tinctures, tablets, creams enough to buy them, if not necessarily to stake their health on them entirely.
Boiron was the homeopathic brand of choice for my Southern California family in the s and early s.
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