Celebrities who use homeopathy What do David Beckham, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Usain Bolt and Pamela Anderson have in common? They are all fans of homeopathy. Homeopathy is said to be the fastest growing system of medicine in the world, and after conventional medicine, the most widely used. Yet, despite having been used safely for the last 200 years, it remains a controversial topic with sceptics claiming homeopathy to be “quackery” and a “waste of money”. Often confused with herbal medicine, homeopathy is a unique medical system that treats the whole body - not only the symptoms of an illness - by using the law of similars. According to this practice, a patient is given a minute dose of a substance which would cause the same symptoms in a healthy person, and this action will subsequently trigger the bodys immune system to heal itself. The exact workings of homeopathy, however, remain a mystery and numerous scientific studies have failed to find proof of its efficacy; explaining the positive results seen by homeopathic patients with the so-called placebo-effect – when a belief in a medicine’s healing abilities actually makes the patient feel better. While this age-old debate rages on, millions of people continue to use homeopathy successfully and many others discover it when the route of conventional medication has failed them; including these 10 celebrities in our slideshow. health24/Natural/Multimedia/10-celebrity-fans-of-homeopathy-20130219-2
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:24:55 +0000
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