What Would a Homeopathic Physician Apply to an Open Wound?

[GiantRat]

I can’t help but wonder if we might substitute “osteophath” for “homeopath”; osteopaths are real doctors and all (although some allopaths would disagree). In general, the approach is to try to treat causes rather than symptoms - so that backache may not get you Oxycontin, but a spinal adjustment.

D.O.'s and M.D.'s don’t always share like minds, but they both prescribe drugs, do surgeries, and all that other stuff. Homeopaths can also be doctors (like, if they graduated from the American College of Homeopathy), and it’s not literally about treating with poison. From my understanding, a good example is the use of poison ivy to treat things like eczema, chicken pox, and other itchy afflictions. I can’t vouch for the science… not my field. But the fact that homeopathic approaches have been regulated in the US since 1838 gives at least bureaucratic acceptance.

[Hari_Seldon]

A homeopathic diet would work great. Imagine if all your food were subject to a C100 dilution.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

@GiantRat

But the fact that homeopathic approaches have been regulated in the US since 1838 gives at least bureaucratic acceptance.

Appeal to Antiquity and Appeal to Authority, two logical fallacies.

And I don’t know of any MDs these days who dismiss DOs just based on osteopathic training. Both types of schools rely on the scientific method and evidence-based medicine.

As for your claim of acceptance since 1838 in this country, you’re off by a century. Non-Regulation of homeopathy

@Wiki

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) of 1938 recognized homeopathic preparations as drugs, but with significant exceptions. A principal sponsor of the Act was New York Senator and homeopathic physician Royal Copeland, who ensured that homeopathy’s own Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United States (HPUS) be included, as it expressed the “self-professed quality standards” of the homeopathic profession. The finished Act thus created loopholes for the regulation of homeopathic drugs, and they are thus exempted from many of the rules regulating other drugs.

So a homeopathic practitioner and legislator created the governmental recognition of and exemptions for homeopathy.

[GoodOmens]

@Hari_Seldon

A homeopathic diet would work great. Imagine if all your food were subject to a C100 dilution.

That would indeed work well. After death, rapid weight loss typically occurs.