About homeopathy, the almost incredible cure...

What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a widely discussed theme in science because there is no proof about if this medicine actually can cure diseases. Hemeopathy is therefore known as complementary or alternative medicine (CAN) and it's principle is 'like cures like', that the substance that causes symptomes can in the same way also remove it. Homeopaths say that the treatment is formed by shaking and dilution. As a result there is afterwards nearly nothing of the original substance left and there is said to be an imprint of the original substance in the water left, which helps to cure the disease. Oppositions on this believe come from 'The House of Commons Science', which explains this hypothesis to be 'implausible' and investigations on this topic show that there is no evidence that guarantees any affect of the treatment. The NHS makes use of homeopathic substances and I think that this is a bad attitude, because they can mislead people from buying medicine, which have demonstrated in the past and in invenstigations, that they have a real effect.

Which reasons would there be to prohibit homeopathic medicine?
On the opposition side of homeopathy are good arguments, which tell us that homeopathy should be banned, because it has no effect. One of these arguments is, that homeopathy has no more cure proof than that it is just a placebo and has therefore no real benefit.

Another argument against homeopathy is, that 230 trails about the topic are shown to be negative in their result and don't support the thesis.

Studies with animals confirm the trial on humans again, because they attain the same unreliable results of homeopathic substances.

A good reason to prohibit the sale of homeopathic substances is as well that it can be dangerous, because there can be side effects and consumers can be cheated on, because they think, that the medicine actually helps and therefore can catch diseases that could have been avoided if they would have taken scientifically proved medicine instead.

There is an ethical aspect on this topic as well, because people spend their money on something that is actually worth nothing, because the substance is so diluted that it is nothing less than water and uneducted humans can through the legality of it's sale lose their money.

Benveniste, who is the inventor of homeopathic treatment, was also in his first trials discovered to have unreliable results in the experiments and had inadequately reported the imperfections of his experiments and also uncritically assessed the survey and therefore his findings were imprecise.

In addition to this, he also claimed, that the memory of water could be digitalized and transmitted to another sample of water via the internet, which was also tested with the conclusion, that his claims were again with no observable effect.

My opinion about if the NHS should leave hemeopathy available:
All these points illustrate homeopathy as a noncredible way of healing people. Therfore I conclude from all the negative issues which I have mentioned in this text, that homeopathy should stay illegal and have no permission to be sold in the NHS. Even though the placebo effect might be useful in some cases of patients, these can still be treated with other placebos, which guarantee them that there are no harmful side effects, whereas with homeopathic remedies, nobody can be sure if they will or won't interact with other medicines which the patient already takes.

The sources, which I used:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/homeopathy/Pages/Introduction.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/12/no-scientific-case-homeopathy-remedies-pharmacists-placebos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7505286.stm