Although there are several different approaches, homeopathy generally involves first finding a cure by the principle of similars, which says that the remedy should be of a substance known to create the very symptoms the patient is already suffering. Then that remedy is diluted in water or alcohol to the point where the solution handed to the patient contains no molecules of the original remedy.
A typical homeopathic dilution is done in ratios of one part of the substance to ninety-nine parts alcohol or water (depending on whether the substance is soluble in water). This process is repeated—a dilution of one part of the original solution to ninety-nine parts water or alcohol—again and again. It’s quite normal to do this thirty times—this is called a 30C dilution. That means, if you started by dissolving a tiny amount of your remedy in around fifteen drops of water, you would end up with the original substance diluted in a volume of water fifty times bigger than the Earth. The big scientific problem with this is that when the homeopathic pharmacist sells you a few milliliters of this remedy, the math of chemistry tells you there is virtually no chance that it contains a single molecule of the original substance.
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