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The Theory and Math on Homeopathy Doesn’t Add Up
Let’s do the math together and understand the beliefs around homeopathy to make it clear why homeopathy isn’t a viable medicine.
I was ten years old the first time asthma came for me. It was during a long run in PE class, under a blazing sun on a dusty field. I couldn’t breathe. I was wheezing so hard I thought I might suffocate. My mom rushed me to the emergency room, where they gave me a nebulizer treatment, a rescue inhaler prescription, and a stack of asthma management papers. They told my mom to follow up with my pediatrician.
She didn’t.
Back then, most kids in the U.S. didn’t have insurance, and immigrant families like mine often didn’t qualify for government-funded public programs. So instead of seeing a pediatrician, we boarded a bus and rode down into Mexico, back to the ancestral hometown. That’s where we met Dr. W, a .
Dr. W was a legend. People lined up outside his office starting at 5 AM, hoping to get one of the coveted numbers that guaranteed a brief-but-thorough consultation. He’d ask a few questions, scribble a prescription, and you’d head downstairs to his pharmacy to get your homeopathic remedy.
