Homeopathy - Does It Work?

In 2009 leading pharmacy Boots (UK) revealed that they didn''t believe homeopathic medicine could improve your immune system. However, despite this discovery and repeated clinical trials which prove that homeopathy gives the same results achieved in placebo tests, the NHS still managed to spend over 4 million pounds in the last 12 months developing homeopathic medicines.

Astonished by the National Health Services and Boot''s ''no harm'' theories to homeopathy, more than 300 sceptics planned a mass homeopathic overdose to help increase awareness about the fact that homepathy is ineffectual.

During this public exhibition which took place on the 30th January 2010, all those actively involved in the protest openly swallowed, in public, an entire container of homeopathic tablets to prove that they are nothing more than fakes as well as hopefully prompt pharmacies to stop selling them.

What is Homeopathy?

Question consumers and they will describe homeopathy as ''all natural herbal medicine'' most of the ingredients found within this commonly accepted complementary medicine are so minisculethat there really is nothing to them.

However further background checks into the discovery of homeopathy has found that there is nothing medicinal about it, but that it is purely based on three medical concepts produced in the 18th century by Samuel Hahnemann. 3 beliefs which are still utilised in the testing of homeopathic pills to this day:

- The Law of Similars the theory where the cause of your illness can also cause them i.e. taking caffeine to remedy insomnia

- The Law of Infinitesimals where the more diluted the remedy is from water, the more potent it will be

- The Law of Succession where vigorous stirring of a homeopathic remedy would enhance its strength

Analysing this history, it is easy to understand why demonstraters are asking the government to order the NIHCE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) to assess whether it is right for the NHS to fund homeopathic remedies. Providing few if any results, all clinical studies point to the fact that they will not boost your health.
So what does work?

Recently there has been a lot of hype around a special type of berry found in the Amazon basin in Brazil. This berry is called the Acai Berry and boasts many proven health benefits.