Sugar Pills and Insurance Bills – The Homeopathy question
In 1796, a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann proposed a radical idea: that substances which cause symptoms in healthy people can cure those same symptoms in the sick, when administered in highly diluted form. He called the principle similia similibus curentur (like cures like). This became the founding logic of homeopathy.
In classical homeopathy, a substance is dissolved and diluted repeatedly, sometimes to a ratio of 1 part remedy to 10 followed by 30 zeros parts water. At this level, not a single molecule of the original substance is likely to remain.
Hahnemann developed his system at a time when medical science was still in its early stages, when bloodletting and purging were standard treatments, and when the germ theory of disease did not yet exist.
His ideas gained significant traction, including official state recognition during the Nazi era under the “New German Medicine†programme, which favoured domestically produced remedies as part of a nationalist medical agenda. Read more at - https://blog.insurancepe.com/sugar-pills-and-insurance-bills-the-homeopathy-question/
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