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Saviolo

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6. Nothing wrong with herbal remedies
Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:44 PM
Aug 2013

Herbal remedies are very useful, and I use several of them. My husband uses St. Johns Wort for mood regulation, and I use Valerian for occasional sleeplessness. Holistic and Homeopathic are different things.

Homeopathic remedies are where a tiny amount of a substance that causes the same symptom you're attempting to treat is dissolved in water (for instance, onions cause your eyes to water, so if you've got watery eyes from allergies, they'll put a drop of onion juice in water), then shaken. Then that water is further diluted with more water, and on and on. The theory is that the more dilute it is, the better it treats the symptoms. The theory is that the water has a memory of the vibration of the molecule of onion juice that will treat your ailment, even if it has been diluted to such an extent that there is a statistically negligible quantity of it remaining.

Herbals/holistic and homeopathic remedies aren't the same thing.

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