Decrepit Old Fool

Hey! June 14 – 21 is Homeopathy Awareness Week, so let’s all be more aware of homeopathy! 

It’s the startling late 1700’s discovery of a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann., and there are two basic ideas.  First, like cures like.  In other words, a toxin that causes a symptom similar to the one you want to cure, can cure that symptom IF it is presented as a property of water’s memory for that toxin.

Really! You add some of the toxin to the water, dilute it 1/10 with pure water, then dilute that 1/10 with pure water, and so on through several more steps.  When you’re done, there are no molecules of the original toxin present but the water “remembers” the toxin and can cure the symptom. The more dilute it is, the stronger it is.  Amazingly, the water has forgotten about all the poop and pee it’s been in contact with over the years, to say nothing of decomposing animals or organic mercury compounds or drug residues from municipal sewage.

I remember that my grandmother was big on homeopathic cures.  She used to give me homeopathic pills for my allergies.  Being made of sugar, they tasted sweet, so I gobbled them up; even sneaked extras.  Hope I didn’t overdose on potentialized nothing.

Maybe I’m being unfair, but some ideas are almost impossible to parody. Yea for homeopathy!

NOTES:

• How about some Homeopathic plutonium to take home with you?  Maybe it cures… radiation sickness or something?

• Wait… here’s one homeopathic remedy that actually works!.  At least, it does something but that something is nerve damage.  You see, some homeopathic medicines are mixed with herbs and minerals, but aren’t required to receive FDA testing for safety and efficacy.  So maybe it really isn’t a good idea to squirt them up your nose.
• Who knew?  There are actual medicines in those “homeopathic” remedies.  Apparently some of them “work” because they, uh, “cheat”.
• For your entertainment, here’s 2 comedy videos: Homeopathic A&E, and Homeopathic ER