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And now, on to the show.

Welcome to episode 40 of Helix Talk.

I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Schumann.

And I'm Dr. Patel.

And in this episode,

we're going to be talking about homeopathic medicine. And we're going to tread lightly because

this is a very controversial topic, but we're going to talk mainly about what is homoopathic

medicine, what is the evidence behind it, and how does that kind of apply to the role of the

pharmacist? Glad you mentioned that, Dr. Kane, because I have a friend back at home in India who is a

doctor of homeopathy, and I always wonder, you know, how she does her practice or what she

does as part of treating patients. Yeah. Well, I think to kind of kick it off defining what is

homeopathic medicine and distinguishing that from things that are pretty similar so that everyone's on the same page in terms of what is homeopathic medicine and distinguishing that from things that are pretty similar

so that everyone's on the same page in terms of what is homeopathic medicine.

Some of it is the theory that this disease can be, as something can be cured by a highly diluted

solution of a substance that causes similar symptoms of the disease in healthy people or like

cures, like in a one example is going to be for allergy treatment or for anaphylaxis treatment,

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