Homeopathy

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Platapus

First of all, in order for this poll to be useful, one should define what homeopathy means and does not mean. There is a big difference between homeopathy and herbal medicine, but some confuse the terms.

Homeopathy is not herbal medicine, not by name, and not by practice. I also never met anybody confusing the two. Even those who maybe did not know what homeopathy is, did not assume it was herbal medicine.

there are local variations of homeopathy, though, but all depend on the same set of basic assumptions, though they are called ifferent: Bachblüten in Germany, Caliornian Essences in America, and so on. That's why I mentioned "and variations".

Herbal essence uses cures that have actual chemically/physiologically more or less effective ingredients, while homeopathy from relatively early dilution-ratios on has none. It's two totally different things.

For a quick shot at what homeopathy is: German or English Wikipedia do a sufficient job on it.