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At its roots, it's like PETA--originally started out by nice people who wanted people to be nice to animals. Over time, the whackadoos took over and now they are a hateful org.
Homeopathy had its origins in treating the whole person and not just the disease, but was quickly taken over by quacks and placebo salespeople.
That’s actually holistic medicine, not homeopathy. Homeopathy was invented in the late 1700s as an evolution of the medieval belief in humours.
Homeopathy’s premise is that ‘like cures like’ (a substance that causes symptoms in healthy people can cure them in sick people), coupled with a belief that water has a spiritual memory that can be unlocked by ritually diluting and shaking until no molecules of the active ingredient remain. Common dilutions are 1:10^60 or higher.
Here’s a great write-up on what it is and how it began from the National Library of Medicine.
It’s commonly mistaken for holistic medicine, but it’s a very different (and potentially dangerous) thing.
Thank you.
Homeopathy was developed and thriving in an era when "do nothing" was better for the patient than contemporary accepted treatments.