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Homepathic Cure. Tinnitus Treatment. Natural Remedy.

These are the keywords that people are searching for when they’re looking for tinnitus treatment online, and it’s unfortunate.

A great deal of tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any type of effective treatment. They’re willing to try multiple therapeutic options in their quest for a cure. Homeopathic tinnitus treatments are widely available and marketed aggressively on the internet. Under normal circumstances, individual patients might be unwilling to try alternative treatments. However, due to the apparent paucity of effective tinnitus treatments, some will purchase Homeopathic medications.

Save your money. They don’t work.

Homeopathy is based on a wildly implausible scientific theory that has been thoroughly discredited. It does not accord with our current advanced understanding of biological systems or the physiology of disease.

Here is an excellent post that outlines the problems behind the two principles of homeopathy. Some choice quotes:

Let us examine homeopathy’s most basic principle, that of infinitesimal doses. Homeopaths today use dilutions of substances which essentially remove all traces of the substance from the final dilution. There is not likely to be even a single molecule of the original drug in the final remedy which is given to the patient. Homeopaths conclude from this fact that the substance is transferring its essence to the water into which it is diluted. The more it is diluted, the more potent is the water. They offer, however, no plausible explanation for how simple water molecules can contain the essence of far more complex substances. They simply call it “water memory”, but labeling is not explaining. They further have no model for how such implausible “water memory” could survive as the water is placed on a sugar pill, digested in the stomach, absorbed in the blood, and then carried to wherever it has its alleged action.

Here’s a bit of background on the historical context in which Homeopathy was initially developed:

Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Christian Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician who had become dissatisfied with the medicine of his day. Hahnemann lived in a time before the rudiments of modern medicine had been developed, before the germ theory of infectious disease, before the first antibiotic, before systematic testing of drugs for safety and efficacy, before surgical procedures were performed with anesthesia or sterile technique. In his century, it is fairly safe to say, conventional medicine was more likely to do harm than good, and hospitals were a place people went to die, rather than get well. It is no surprise, therefore, that Hahnemann sought for an alternative to the classical approach of his day.

Tinnitus is a complex illness that involves a very complicated series of neurological changes in the brain. There is a total absence of a plausible mechanism explaining how diluted water could selectively effect a change in the brain and remove the tinnitus tone. The clinical data on Homeopathy, both broadly and with respect to tinnitus specifically, is similarly ineffectual. Science Based Medicine, an excellent blog, has also written a great post debunking a lot of the questionable claims made by the proponents of Homeopathy. I suggest you check it out.

Cheers,
AudioNotch