It's often said that homeopathic remedies contain no active ingredients. How do we know this? Here's some basic chemistry to explain how homeopaths remove all of their starting ingredients from most of their remedies.

Why do homeopaths believe that their remedies work when even they admit that their remedies often contain no ingredients? The answer: they belive in a process called potentisation.

Here we look at what potentisation is and whether it's a viable mechanism.

An overview of homeopathy: an alternative medicine system based on the principle that a much diluted preparation of a substance that causes symptoms in healthy individuals can cure disease that causes the same symptoms in a sick person.