With due respect, Grab and bobad, what you say about Homeopathy is not true--homeopathic remedies fare quite well in double-bind and other scientific studies--the mechanisms may not be clear, but the results are--here is an example--the occasional grammatical oddness are because the site is in German--http://www.mtec-ag.de/1_3_1_3.asp?lang=eng



The proof of effectivity by Leipzig University

Professor Karen Nieber, head of the institute for pharmacy at Leipzig University, set about proving that homeopathy does not work and at the most can be explained by the so-called placebo effect. It was whilst looking for a test arrangement which totally excluded any placebo effect that she came up with the following idea: she placed a rat intestines in a nutrient solution and fixed it using organic threads to a sensor in order to measure the reduction of the intestines through contraction. She then added a stimulant to the nutrient solution, which caused a strong contraction of the rat intestines.

Professor Karen Nieber, as a pharmacologist, expected that the treatment with a homeopathic agent with a potenz above C12 would have no effect against the enterospasms, since there are no more active agents present above this potenz. In order to make the degree of dilution apprehensible: a C14 is like a single drop in all the worlds' oceans together!

In Leipzig they then added Belladonna D90 to the nutrient solution with the rat intestines cramped through the stimulant they had added and lo and behold, the enterospasms ceased immediately, the measuring device registered the relaxation of the intestines.

What Hahnemann declared two hundred years ago in order to defend his homeopathy may also apply to the Leipzig study:

"I don't demand any belief in it, nor require that someone understands it. Even I don't understand it; but enough, the facts are so and not otherwise. Only the experience says it, which I believe more than my own comprehension."