Name NEBIYU YITNA

department HO
BMC

1,Homeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative

medicine. it was conceived in 1796 by the german physician
samuel hahnemann. its practitioners called homeopaths,believe
that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy
people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine
is called similia similibuscurenture,or ''like cures like''. it is
harmless product often made from organic materials such as
shugar and red onion. homeopathic preparations are termed
remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. in this
process, the selected substsnce is repeatedly diluted until the
final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent.

2,Toxity can be measured by the effect the substance has on

an organism,a tissue or a cell. we know that individuals will
respond differently to the same dose of a substsnce because of
anumber of factors including their gender, age and body
weiht. there fore apopulation level measure of toxity is often
used. the probability of an outcome for a population is then
related to agiven individual in a population. one such
population level measure is the median lethal dose,lD50
(LETHALDOSE,50%).THIS IS DEFINED AS THE DOSE REQUIRED TO
KILL HALF the members of a specific animal population whwn
entering the animals body by a particular route.ld50 is a general
indicator of a substances toxicity with in a short space of time. it
is ameasure of acute toxicity.