Last month, musician Billy Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was rushed to the hospital in an apparent suicide attempt. She had taken an overdose of a homeopathy medication known as Traumeel, which is ineffectively used to treat joint pain seeing as it has no active ingredients. I can just picture this girl experiencing placebo induced feelings of dying to the point were others thought it necessary to rush her to the hospital. as stupid as this girl was for not knowing what kind of drugs she was ingesting it's, nonetheless, a great example of just how strong the power of belief can be over people's behaviors and actions.

a little background on homeopathy;
It was invented about 200 years ago by a German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann. He believed that β€” contrary to what we know about pharmacology β€” homeopathic medicines actually become more effective the more they are diluted. Homeopathic medications are often so literally watered-down that they don't contain a single molecule of the original medicine or substance. Depending on how diluted the solution is β€” as expressed on the label as X (a 10-fold dilution) or C (a 100-fold dilution) β€” there is often literally no active ingredient in the "medication."
It is just water. If homeopathy worked, it would violate basic rules of physics and science.
You can test the homeopathic principle yourself easily at home: Using this principle, the next time you reach for an aspirin or other pain reliever, you should probably crush the pill, pick out a few of the smaller crumbs of medicine, and take those. Less is more, so the less you take of the medicine, the more effective it should be.

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