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I'm just trying to sort some things out. I'm not real sure what "homeopathy" is and what the difference is between that and herbalism. I guess I've always been under the impression that they were the same thing but I see at the health food stores "homeopathic remedies" being sold as pills and with indications that I'm unclear on i.e. "potentcy 6x". Can anyone clarify this for me at all?

Homeopathic preparations can be made from any substance including herbal plants. Although all are natural substances, the preparation of homeopathic remedies is very different than something like herbal tincture. In homeopathic medicine, the greater the dilution of the remedy substance, the higher the potency of the medicine. Low potency remedies are generally used for treating acute illnesses, whereas higher potencies are used for constitutional treatments. So in homeopathy, the mother tincture (prepared like a herbal tincture) is diluted as much as 1 drop to 99 drops of alchol/water mixture. It's then sucussed (shaken) and may be diluted more before mixing with the inert material of the pill, tablet, powder (usually lactose tablets). To get an X potency, 1 part of original substance is added to 9 parts solvent. To get an C potency, 1 part of original substance is added to 99 parts solvent. A 6C potency is consider 10x stronger than a 6X potency

As to why this works, start with Hahnemann (1755-1843), the German doctor/chemist who coined the term homeopathy and its various basic principles, and feel free to wade through the reams and reams of historical/current medical literature. Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880) founded the first homeopathic medical college in the United States as well as devising the Laws of Cure. Dr. James Tyler Kent (184-1916) created the repertory of symptoms and remedies that still forms the basis for most repertories today. English homeopath Richard Hughes (1836-1902) started the debate on high potency vs low potency which still gets argued today. Homeopathy has attracted some of the most elegant philosophers of medicine, and most homeopaths have enormous libraries.

A quicker, and more coherent, explanation can be found in PATIENT'S GUIDE TO HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE, by Judyth and Robert Ullman. Homeopathics and herbal medications are not interchangable -- the homeopathic prescribing takes a different view of the cause and effect of the medication -- and some herbals can negate the effect of some homeopathics.

Homeopathy was invented by a german doctor in 1810, 10 years before the discovery of electro-magnetism. It consist of 2 main elements: 1. Eye for an eye treatment 2. Extreme diluting. The idea of treating eye for an eye, as homeopathy consist of originates back till Paracelus (~1500). The principle is pretty simple and understandable; In Asia they use rhino-horns to cure impotens.. you can almost see it before you. The opposite of homeopathy is allopati (homo=the same, allo = something else). And exactly that term is used by homeopaths to talk down about the etablished therapy. So when you treat diabetes - with quite some succes - with insulin and not dilute solutions of sugar, thats a typical allogoric treatment. The principle of diluting is somewhat harder to understand for a person with the slightest scientific knowledge. The principle is, you take the drug, which effect resembles that of the disease and dilutes in an extreme degree. So extreme a degree that if you´re aware of Avocado´s number, you´ll know that there aint any molecules left in the solution. That is not denied by the forespeakers of homeopethy, that´s a part of the idea. In the solution there will now be holes left from the original molecules and these holes apparently sucks out the nasty disease-molecules. And here is the catch.. the more dilute the solution - the better effect. So we´re dealing with an invert dosis-efficiency curve here! And when it comes to the documentary part of the effect, which most funny mainly is published in a magazine called Homeopathy or other suspect magazines and not the acknowledges ones, shows that there is significant metodical problems involved. They compare in the clinical tests often the effect of the homoepathetic drug against placebo and not against other medical drugs. You can thereby prove that water with holes sometimes works better than water without holes. One often quoted metaanalysis (Linde et al., Lancet 350, 1997, 834-843), that claims to support the effect of homeopathy concludes: 'However, we found insufficient evidence from these studies that homoepathy is clearly efficacious for any single clinical condition'. So much for that documentation.