If you are too impatient or want to skip ahead, here are the posts:But the key here is not to just keep adding water. Even homeopaths know that if you do that, nothing will happen. You have to awaken the spirit of the remedy (I seriously wish I was making that up) by giving it a good jolt.
You gotta shake it like a Polaroid picture, yo.
Ok maybe not quite like Polarioid picture. But you do have to shake it. And don’t drop it like it’s hot. You’ll only look like a nerd.
Succussion is what makes the remedy potent. Succussion is what Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy, believed released the “spirit-like powers” of the remedy throughout the solution. The more a remedy is shaken, the more powerful it becomes. In fact, according to homeoint.org he believed that when his remedies were shipped across country by horseback, they were shaken so much that the solutions became too powerful to use!
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 1 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 2 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 3 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 4 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 5 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 5 2008
- Elyse at Skepchick--Celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness Week – Day 7 2008
Update April 2010 Homeopathy a systematic review finds no evidence that homeopathy has effects beyond placebo. Dr. Steven Barnett's article, Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake reviews the status of homeopathy in the United States. Homeopathy lists the critiques published of homeopathy in April, 2010.
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