Article: Homeopathic medicine: The hair of the dog that bit you

Perhaps there is some truth to to the claim that `that which makes us sick shall heal'

WOULD YOU KNOWINGLY eat or drink white arsenic, deadly nightshade, brimstone, poison ivy, hellebore, hemlock, mercury, or witch hazel?

Thousands do every day. They believe in homeopathy, a centuries-old healing doctrine codified by German physician Samuel Hahnemann and introduced into the U.S. in 1825. Homeopathy is based on the principle that the best way to cure an ailment is to take minute doses of a substance that produces the same symptoms as those you are suffering.

Homeopathic specialists claim that what causes your illness will cure it by kicking the immune system into high gear. This approach ...

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