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Is homeopathic medicine really "just water"? Or is that just blind reddit cultism that "everyone knows" without really investigating it?
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Homeopathy, using the term faithfully, is the dilution of a toxic compound in water (or sugar as the other anon notes) to such a degree that it not longer has toxic effects. The idea being that small doses of a substance that causes symptoms will illicit a bodily response that alleviates those symptoms. (Note that this proposed mechanism of action is largely bullshit).
Modern homeopathic "medicines," however, are so diluted that there is most likely not a single molecule of the active compound in any given dose of the "mixture." Homeopaths counter this be evoking "water memory" (which is bullshit) or water "structuring" (which is technically a thing but only lasts microseconds, not going to be present in any dose you receive). Hence the accurate statement that it's "just water."
However, homeopathy has become somewhat of a buzzword that gets slapped on to completely unrelated herbal remedies, each of these having different levels of evidence for effectiveness. This whole market is poorly regulated and is largely driven by marketing wank dressed in pseudoscience. You can't even trust that the words being used mean the same thing on two different bottles of the stuff so you're best just avoiding this shit entirely.