Homeopathy: A Credible Treatment
Theory of Fighting Pathogens with Pathogens Is Homeopathy A Credible Treatment?
Around 1790, Samuel Hahnmann, a German physician took in a certain amount of quinine from the bark of Cinchona sp. which was usually used to treat malaria (the main symptom is fever) and later he noticed some effects such as his body temperature raised. With further study, he concluded the theory that a substances cause disease symptom can also alleviate the disease which later developed to be “Homeopathy” treatment (Sharp). The term “Homeopathy” consists of two Greek words:”homoios” and “pathos” which mean “similar” and “disease” respectively. It’s an arguable treatment which was popular with many countries for a century. With the development of modern medicine …show more content…
(Lu) He concentrated on further study and proposed two principles as the theoretical foundation of homeopathy. He drew the general explanation: “Similia similibus curantur” (“Similar cures similar” in Latin) to state that the substances produce disease symptoms of the healthy human body can alleviate relative symptoms of the sick person (Sharp). Later he developed into the another notion law of infinitesimal which core stated that the effectiveness of treatment will increase along with the lower concentration of the medicine (Sharp). Hahnemann stated in his published book The Organon of the Healing Art that the substance needed to be ultra-diluted and shaken violently so that the homeopathic traits would be activated hence the curative efficacy would be strengthened. As he thought the large dose of agentia would aggravate the illness instead …show more content…
As Schick and Vaughn address in their book: the representativeness heuristic is simply described as assessing similarity of objects and organizing them based around the category prototype (e.g., the causes and effects should resemble each other). Namely, “Like goes with like.” Its influence is most apparent in the realm of medicine-for instance; in homeopathy treatment, patients with insomnia problem are prescribed stimulants like caffeine to counteract the sleep loss symptom that accords with the theory by giving yourself these corresponding diluted substances you will in fact become healthier (British Homeopathic
Around 1790, Samuel Hahnmann, a German physician took in a certain amount of quinine from the bark of Cinchona sp. which was usually used to treat malaria (the main symptom is fever) and later he noticed some effects such as his body temperature raised. With further study, he concluded the theory that a substances cause disease symptom can also alleviate the disease which later developed to be “Homeopathy” treatment (Sharp). The term “Homeopathy” consists of two Greek words:”homoios” and “pathos” which mean “similar” and “disease” respectively. It’s an arguable treatment which was popular with many countries for a century. With the development of modern medicine …show more content…
(Lu) He concentrated on further study and proposed two principles as the theoretical foundation of homeopathy. He drew the general explanation: “Similia similibus curantur” (“Similar cures similar” in Latin) to state that the substances produce disease symptoms of the healthy human body can alleviate relative symptoms of the sick person (Sharp). Later he developed into the another notion law of infinitesimal which core stated that the effectiveness of treatment will increase along with the lower concentration of the medicine (Sharp). Hahnemann stated in his published book The Organon of the Healing Art that the substance needed to be ultra-diluted and shaken violently so that the homeopathic traits would be activated hence the curative efficacy would be strengthened. As he thought the large dose of agentia would aggravate the illness instead …show more content…
As Schick and Vaughn address in their book: the representativeness heuristic is simply described as assessing similarity of objects and organizing them based around the category prototype (e.g., the causes and effects should resemble each other). Namely, “Like goes with like.” Its influence is most apparent in the realm of medicine-for instance; in homeopathy treatment, patients with insomnia problem are prescribed stimulants like caffeine to counteract the sleep loss symptom that accords with the theory by giving yourself these corresponding diluted substances you will in fact become healthier (British Homeopathic