What is homeopathy?

What is homeopathy?

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Homeopathy is the science of taking a herb or a drug, and using it in very small doses increasing it to create an effect without having adverse events. So the idea of homeopathy is that you can take a drug in a very diluted state and get an effect that can be beneficial to someone. Whereas, if you use it in a much higher dose, it would have side effects that wouldn't be tolerable. So some people have used small amounts of chemical that are similar to nicotine, for example lobeline is one of those, and use it in smaller amounts trying to wipe out the affect in the brain to nicotine by using a chemical similar to that. So, homeopathy is the science of studying the effects of drugs in the human physiology in very small amounts given frequently over time.