Blog 4

There’s a lot more to the story of Samuel Hahnemann—such as how he was caught selling common borax as a $90 medicine he called alkali pneum or how he claimed he found a full-proof way to prevent scarlet fever—which also cost $90—but it’s enough to know that homeopathy does not have any basis in fact, science, or even logic. Over the next few decades, Hahnemann added to his theory whenever it ran into a problem, which was often. For instance, his original “cures” had the unfortunate downside of making people even sicker. So, in his fashion, Hahnemann decided that his special sauce should be heavily diluted. This way, the toxic plant Arnica montana could be used to “heal” a bullet wound (it won’t) instead of causing cardiac arrest or death. Seriously, he recommended Arnica as a treatment for bullet wounds! This is why homeopathic products today are so heavily diluted that there isn’t even a single molecule of the “active” ingredient left.There’s a lot more to the story of Samuel Hahnemann—such as how he was caught selling common borax as a $90 medicine he called alkali pneum or how he claimed he found a full-proof way to prevent scarlet fever—which also cost $90—but it’s enough to know that homeopathy does not have any basis in fact, science, or even logic. Over the next few decades, Hahnemann added to his theory whenever it ran into a problem, which was often. For instance, his original “cures” had the unfortunate downside of making people even sicker. So, in his fashion, Hahnemann decided that his special sauce should be heavily diluted. This way, the toxic plant Arnica montana could be used to “heal” a bullet wound (it won’t) instead of causing cardiac arrest or death. Seriously, he recommended Arnica as a treatment for bullet wounds! This is why homeopathic products today are so heavily diluted that there isn’t even a single molecule of the “active” ingredient left.