Can homeopathic medicine cure diabetes?

Originally Answered: Does homeopathy work in diabetes?

It depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. Here is how
homeopathic remedies are made: [1]

The technique for making a homeopathic medicine involves repeated

dilution of a specific substance until little of the original substance
remains. When manufacturing a homeopathic medicine from a plant,
for example, the first step involves cleaning and preparing the plant
with alcohol and water, as prescribed in the HPUS, to make a tincture.
This tincture is then diluted and strongly shaken. This step is repeated
over and over to create increasing potencies of the medicine. For
example, one drop of a plant tincture may be mixed with 9 drops of
alcohol (to achieve a ratio of 1:10), and the mixture will then be
strongly shaken—a process known as succussion. The resulting
homeopathic medicine is labeled with a potency according to the
number of times this has been done.

Now, if you have the barest understanding of molecular chemistry, or

if you have ever had tea or soup for that matter, you will realize that
“potency” does not increase with repeated dilution.

It’s like this:

You have $100. I offer to make you richer.

I take your $100, break it into 10 $10 bills.
I replace 9 of those with rocks. That’s the first dilution. I’ve diluted
your $100. But I’m not done.
I take your remaining $10 and break it into 10 $1 bills.
I replace 9 of those with rocks. That’s the second dilution. I’ve diluted
your $10. But I’m not done.
I take your remaining $1 and break it into 10 dimes.
I replace 9 of those with rocks. That’s the third dilution. I’ve diluted
your $1.
Now, I’m done. Congratulations. Your wealth now has more “potency.”
You’re a wealthy man. Don’t let the naysayers tell you otherwise.
They’ll tell you that you’re a fool, and that all you have is a dime and a
huge pile of worthless rocks. But all they will be doing is betraying
that they have no understanding of potency and of the essence of
wealth.

When you take medication, what you are doing is ingesting a

substance that will make its way into your bloodstream, whence its
molecules will bind to specific receptors, and thereby activate or
inhibit specific biochemical pathways.

Pharmaceuticals don’t work by magic. If someone is telling you that

they can cure your condition, they are more credible if they can outline
a specific mechanism of action for what they are selling.
Do you have diabetes because your body is suffering from a severe
deficiency of diluted sugar water? If so, homeopathy might be for you.
If not, then you are probably going to need to lose weight to decrease
your insulin resistance and take some pharmaceutical agents that
have been proven to reduce the levels of glucose in your blood.