You are using the term "homeopathy", which includes osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, and other "holistic" areas of treatment.
Homeopathy is a very broad area, and some of it isn't just pseudoscience, although we may not yet know the mechanism of operation for some of the 'treatments' (and some are almost certainly actively harmful).
It's probably a weak analogy, but homeopathy is to medicine as supplements are to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. There's always going to be some crazies, but there will also be some good things there, too, and by banning it, we will miss out on some really good innovation and ideas.
>Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like".
I think homeopathy just applies to the pseudoscientific/fake "like cures like" dilution method. The broad category is just known as "alternative medicine", I believe. Some other forms of alternative medicine aren't necessarily quite as baseless.
> You are using the term "homeopathy", which includes osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, and other "holistic" areas of treatment.
> Homeopathy is a very broad area …
Homeopathy is a specific system of “alternative medicine” that involves treating “like with like” – albeit in dilutions that no longer contain the active ingredient. It has little in common with acupuncture or chiropractic which have very different origins and belief systems – other than they are all pseudo-scientific and are broadly categorised as complementary or alternatives to mainstream, evidence-based medicine.
Homeopathy is a very broad area, and some of it isn't just pseudoscience, although we may not yet know the mechanism of operation for some of the 'treatments' (and some are almost certainly actively harmful).
It's probably a weak analogy, but homeopathy is to medicine as supplements are to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. There's always going to be some crazies, but there will also be some good things there, too, and by banning it, we will miss out on some really good innovation and ideas.