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The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.
It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so if you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow "remember" what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through some principle of magnetism.
It's not like it magically somehow worked, and everyone was in amazement or anything quite like that. The only real reasons it did anything at all was that its contemporary treatments were things like bloodletting, which were worse for most things than not doing anything at all, or as a result of placebo.
Assuming this effect existed, wouldn't the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)? The specific water molecules you are ingesting probably spent considerable time (considering the age of the earth and all water on it) as saltwater. If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily
Yes.
No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.
Not only that, but that the compound you dilute, must be something that causes the symptoms you pretend to aliviate.