Date:   11/30/2014 1:26:51 PM ( 11 y ago)
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Oh well, sharing opinions sometimes means others might become frustrated. Fortunately, not all people are alike, some are beyond becoming frustrated by mere words on a screen :)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeopathy

The problem I see with the above definition of homeopathy, is that it specifies only "larger amounts"

I view that as an indefinite statement. For example, potassium chloride, in "larger amounts" than people get through their diet, can be fatal. Yet, 3-4 grams of potassium a day is considered normal or desirable, or optimal, whatever.

So, if I supplement with one gram of potassium chloride in a day, within the definition above, I am practicing "homeopathy", because it is a substance that in larger amounts causes a dis-ease, namely death, if you consider death a disease. If you dn't consider death a disease, then think about the 1 minute before they die from potassium chloride overdose, at that stage they are in a state of disease, because in 1 one minute they are going to die. So the KCl is responsible in that case for the disease condition, and accordingly a person who supplements one gram KCl, is practicing homeopathy within the above definition.

So, evidently that definition is indefinite, or not a very good one, because even vitamin B12, Lithium chloride, cod liver oil, water, and many things that are healthy to ingest at lower amounts can cause disease if taken "in larger amounts" Like, water in "larger amounts" will cause the disease of electrolyte imbalance. Yet one glass of water is fine. Hence, by drinking one glass of water, I am practicing homeopathy. Same if I have one beer. Get the picture yet ?

If anyone believes I am attacking "homeopathy", I hope you will think again, for I am not. I don't even know what homeopathy is and am hoping someone can give me a definite definition of it. I am only looking at one definition of it I found and I believe I have shown in the foregoing that the definition is not precise. If I am "attacking" anything, it is the above definition. But I'm not attacking anything, in my mind, I am only discussing my perception of a definition from a single web page source :)

If anybody has a better definition of homeopathy, I'd love to be enlightened :)











 

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