On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:36:42 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> > Yes, if you believe this psuedoscience, highly dilute penicilin would
>> > act as an extremely potent antibiotic
>>
>> No. To make a homeopathic remedy, you dilute something that causes the
>> symptoms. So to make a cure for poison ivy, you dilute something that
>> irritates your skin. The idea being (I think) that your body naturally
>> fights off the very dilute stuff and in so doing cures the poison ivy,
>> too.
>>
>> So dilute penicillin causes infections.
> 
> Sounds highly counterintuitive.

Perhaps, but it's a technique used in medical circles as well.  
Immunotherapy is based on the same basic principle:  You inject someone 
with small doses of what they're allergic to, and that stimulates the 
lymph nodes to "do their thing" in order to suppress allergic reactions.

Been doing this for about a year and a half myself.

Jim

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