Does homeopathic medicine work?

The article I read was called “Life-threatening infectious disease responds better to homeopathy than allopathic medicine” by Carolanne Wright on Feburary 22, 2012. http://www.naturalnews.com/035030_homeopathy_infectious_disease_medicine.html

In this article it talks about how homeopathic medicine has a long history of prevention and treatment of illness without harmful side effects. Samuel Hanhemann, the father of homeopathy, did not believe in bloodletting or purging so he started to make medicines with mercury, lead and arsenic. Homeopathic medicine has been used in many epidemics: the Russian Cholera Epidemic of 1831, the European Typhys Epidemic of 1813, and the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918. Continuous testing, along with results from previous epidemics show that “homeopathy is beneficial in preventing and treating many of the most dangerous communicable diseases known to man.” I chose to pick this quote because it really stood out to me. This is the ending quote of the article and it really ties together the piece. You can see that people infected with meningitis, smallpox, flu, and cholera have all benefited from this treatment. It shows you how remarkable the field of science, and medicine, truly is.

This article has many of the diseases we study in this class. The H1N1 flu, polio, cholera and smallpox are all diseases we have covered in this class. This article is also about treatment to these diseases. We talk about the many different ways of treatment for each and every disease. This article also showed that Samuel Hanhemann did not believe in the 4 humors theory of bloodletting and purging. We have learned all about that belief system in class.

I thought this article was really interesting. I have never heard about homeopathy medicine before. This really opened my eyes to a new type of treatment. This treatment treats many people around the world and saves many lives. One thing that stood out to me was the fact that in this article they said that homeopathic medicine does not give harmful side effects. I figured every medicine had some harmful side effects. It is encouraging to think that if you were to catch an infectious epidemic disease there would be a way to treat it.