Does Homeopathy can affect your health?

Since homeopathy is widely used in India since 1810, many believe that India is a science. This belief, homeopathy was invented in Germany in 1796 by Dr.Samuel. If homeopathy is effective in treating diseases or not is a moot question.

Homeopathy works on the principle that substances that cause disease can, in small doses, treat people who are ill. In homeopathy, medicines are diluted with alcohol or water to an extent that there are only traces of the active substance. This trace amount is sufficient to create a healing response in the patient’s what homeopaths claim. However, the doses are so low that they are as good as placebos (medicines that have no active ingredient in them), like sugar pills. Placebos are known to be effective as some people respond to sugar pills. It is important to note that modern drugs are designed and evaluated based on how they outperform placebos. Homeopathy has no side effects and causes no harm because the amount of active ingredient is very less.

Homeopathy should have waned over time with the development of theories, like the germ theory, working on the principle that germs cause disease. Many studies now show that homeopathy is not an effective treatment for various diseases. In 2010, the Committee for technology and science of UK House of Commons pronounced homeopathy ‘there is no better a placebo’. Although still offers the National Health Service in the UK for patient choice.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia, concluded that homeopathy is not effective for the treatment of any medical condition. This body evaluated 225 papers and presented a report saying – some studies reported that homeopathy was effective. However, the quality of these studies was poor and suffered serious flaws in its design and have not enough participants to support the idea that homeopathy worked any better than a sugar pill. In a statement, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has warned that people who choose homeopathy can put your health at risk if they refuse or delay treatment for which there is good evidence of safety and efficacy.

In India, most of the educated class, working turn to homeopathy for the treatment of various diseases. The government not only encouraged but also produces degree holds homeopathic physicians each year. In 2014, to compensate for the gap of medical services reaches the common man, the government stepped forward and allowed homeopaths prescribe allopathic medicines after a year of additional training in Pharmacology. While this movement received mixed reactions from the medical fraternity, did not seem to be the solution.