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Imagine yourself listening to a street peddler yelling from the top of his lungs about his wares. Curiosity will make many people pay attention to him, but do they know what he’s talking about? In most cases, they listen, fail to understand, and then pretend to understand, then got caught up in the peddler’s trap and went home with dubious medicine.

I believe that you, as a consumer, should know what you’re buying. The same goes with online products. Many health products that is sold online have the label Homeopathic Treatment, flaunted in their banners.

What is Homeopathic Treatment? And why should you know about it?

The term Homeopathy (also homœopathy or homoeopathy; from the Greek hómoios, “similar” +  páthos, “suffering” or “disease”) is a form of alternative medicine based upon principles first defined by Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. A central thesis of homeopathy is that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. Practitioners select treatments according to a patient consultation that explores the physical and psychological state of the patient, both of which are considered important to selecting the remedy. - taken from wikipedia.

So as you can see, homeopath practitioners have the principle that you can treat disease by picking out the symptoms one by one and attacking it with herbs that causes similiar symptoms. By doing this, they believe that the body’s immune system will conquer that symptom, and hence fix itself. If you hear this in a nutshell, it sounds plausible, right? Apparently not.

Controversies surrounding homeopathic treatments are not new. Since their introduction in 1807 there’s a love-hate relationship between homeopathy and modern medicine. Homeopathy is unsupported by modern scientific research. Thus critics contend that any positive results obtained from homeopathic remedies are purely due to the placebo effect. Critics cite the lack of viable scientific studies for the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies as evidence that they are not effective and that any positive effects are due to the placebo effect*.

So this is the controversy. At one side, there are people that can attest that homeopathic treatment yields results, in the other hand, some said it’s just the placebo effect.  Both have their supports. Homeopathic practitioners have a list of patients cured with their treatment. While critics have back-up from researches and modern science theories.

In the end though, decision lies with you, the buyer. But be an informed buyer, not just a buyer. I hope this information will help you to make your decision.

* Placebo Effect : cases where a real psychotherapeutic effect appears to have been produced with non-functioning treatment. In the 1930s Evans and Hoyle (1933), (using 90 subjects), and Gold, Kwit and Otto (1937), (using 700 subjects), published studies which compared the outcomes from the administration of an active drug and a dummy simulator (which both research groups called a “placebo”) in the same trial. Neither experiment displayed any significant difference between drug treatment and placebo treatment;[citation needed] leading the researchers to conclude that the drug exerted no specific effects in relation to the conditions being treated.