Responsible practitioners do not use homeopathic remedies to treat diabetes, cancer, heart disease, or other major illnesses. Nor do they use it to treat surgical emergencies, serious infections, or bad injuries. Some people believe that homeopathic medicine works by stimulating the body's own natural defenses. However, the use of highly-diluted substances has not been shown scientifically to work. If there is less than one molecule of a substance present, it means that no substance remains.
Homeopaths say it is electromagnetic waves of the active ingredient it once contained.
They say that vigorous shakings between each dilution make this memory possible. Another explanation, heard less often, is that all of the shaking and dilution activity releases the essence, or healing life force, of the original substance. Many advocates of homeopathy indicate that they do not know how it works, and that later research will unlock that mystery. First, liquids are not known to have memories according to mainstream science. Second, if liquids could contain trace memories of materials, they would contain trace memories of all the other substances removed by purification procedures during water recycling.