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.

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