04: Classical Homeopathy /Michael Carlston

It is important to consider the possibility that homeopathic treatment is synonymous with placebo treatment.(70)

Choosing homeopathy, I tried reading this book so as to grasp the basic idea about what is homeopathy and what is going on now.

Homeopathy is an alternative medicine but the effect is often criticized like it is just placebo effect.

One of the researches in this book does not deny the relationship between homeopathy and place effect. Rather, he admit homeopathy is based on placebo effect. According to him, the purpose of Homeopathy is to try to find better ways to cure patients and not to be based on science.

In fact, this type of issue is really controversial. Not only homeopathy but also other issues about human body can be debatable because some life science is elementally different from other natural science such as physics and chemistry. Life is not solid and easily changeable. Placebo effect is a good example to show the characteristic.

For me, this book is really nice introduction what homeopathy is and how people react to homeopathy. In my opinion, homeopathy is one of correct magics surviving this science world. As some author pointed out in this book, homeopathy is not so different from other magics such as voodoo in the sense of the function. Homeopathy is just attempting to adjust itself into this contemporary world. Thus, This topic is quite fascinating not only medically or psychologically but also anthropologically.