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In case it's not very clear, homeopathic "medicine" is pure water that's been imbued with "magic healing properties." The premise is that you take something that causes the problem (e.g. caffeine for sleeplessness), put it in water, and then dilute the shit out of it until there is, sometimes literally, less than one molecule of the given substance per more molecules of water than there can possibly exist in the solar system, and then slap a label on it and call it medicine. The water is supposed to magically remember the substance it contained, and then somehow in reverse use the memory of that substance to heal you. Seriously. That's how homeopathy works. Or doesn't work. It's like curing obesity with cheesecake. Or rather, like curing obesity with an empty cheesecake box. There is absolutely no possible mechanism by which it can do a damned thing other than quench your thirst or put out a fire.

Remember, there is no such thing as "alternative medicine." Either it works, and we just call it "medicine", or it doesn't work, and we call it a sham.