{"id":1,"date":"2018-12-10T03:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netzwerk-homoeopathie.info\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-01-28T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:21:33","slug":"keine-reiz-regulations-therapie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netzwerk-homoeopathie.info\/en\/keine-reiz-regulations-therapie\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeopathy isn’t a “stimulus-regulation therapy”"},"content":{"rendered":"Lesedauer \/ Reading Time:<\/span> 6<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>\r\n

Homeopathy is occasionally referred to as “stimulus-regulation therapy”, which assumes the existence of a corresponding explanatory model. The reader (or listener) is left alone with this term – there is no precise explanation of how homeopathy could work as stimulus-regulation therapy.<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What does “regulation” actually mean?<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The term “stimulus-regulation therapy” contains the word “regulation”. In technology and in nature many variables (properties, parameters) are “regulated”, i.e. they are kept constant by a “control loop”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Part of a technical control loop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

A well-known example from technology is the regulation of room temperature. In the room there is a sensor for the temperature (“thermometer”), there is a device (“actuator”) that can change the room temperature (“heating” or “cooling unit”) and there is a circuit that uses the measured values from the thermometer to influence the actuator so that the temperature remains constant. The thermometer with built-in circuit keeps the temperature constant (static) by activating the actuators, therefore it is also called “thermostat”. When the room temperature drops, more heat is emitted from the heating. When the room temperature rises, excess heat is dissipated via the cooling unit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

There are also many parameters in our body that have to be kept constant. The range of permitted fluctuations is usually very small; excessively large deviations are not compatible with life. The principle is called “homeostasis”. Although this word is similar to the word “homeopathy”, it means something completely different. The prefix “homoeo” means – in both cases – “the same” and “-stase” describes that a state is “standing”, “static” or constant. (The word “homeopathy” actually means that a disease is to be cured with a “same” disease – and is thus wrongly chosen, because in homeopathy not the “principle of equality” applies, but the “principle of similarity” Hahnemann attached great importance to this distinction).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Some examples of homeostasis in the body are given below:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n