The use of homeopathy in agriculture is called ‘agrohomeopathy‘. Apparently, it is popular! Advocates believe that they can treat or prevent diseases of plants by applying homeopathic preparations. When I last looked, there was no sound evidence to support this notion, of course. Recently, a new study of agrohomeopathy was published – will it change my view?
Look for yourself, here is its abstract:
The organic cultivation of chives is on the rise due to the demand from health-conscious and sustainability-minded consumers. However, anthracnose, caused by fungi, has been harming the productivity and quality of the plants, with no registered fungicide options. Organic alternatives such as neem oil and sulfocalcic broth are insufficient. Homeopathy, permitted in organic farming, is a promising approach to strengthen plants against diseases and detoxification. This study, conducted in Rio Branco-Acre, at the Seridó ecological site, from December 2022 to March 2023, in covered beds fertilized with 15 t ha-1 of organic compost on a dry basis, involved the application of dynamizations of Carbo Vegetabilis at different concentrations (CH6, CH12, CH18, CH24, and CH30). It did not show a significant impact on productivity or anthracnose control. Leaf losses were high, reaching 65.3%, due to local conditions favorable to Colletotrichum. Anthracnose, challenging due to the lack of specific control methods, may not be adequately addressed by homeopathy in all situations, especially in unfavorable locations. In summary, the study highlights the need to explore disease management strategies specific to the organic cultivation environment. Despite inconclusive results with homeopathic Carbo Vegetabilis, ongoing research can improve the application of homeopathy and other techniques to promote sustainable organic chive production.
Don’t we just love the way enthusiasts of homeopathy call even a squarely negative study “inconclusive”. In turn, they tend to call any fatally flawed trial with a hint of a positive effect solid proof for the effectiveness of homeopathy. Few things reveal more clearly, I feel, how deluded they truly are.
Needless to mention that, both from a scientific point of view as well as from a proper understanding of Hahnemann’s homeopathy, agrohomeopathy is a nonsensical and ridiculous impossibility.
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Wow, not even in the „strongest“ concentration of 30 CH HomoeoMagic preparations show any measurable effect? 🥴
Incredible, there MUST have been any bias in this study. May be the fact, that even the originator Hahnemann wouldn’t have expected any effect??
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Affiliations of the authors:
1. George Galvão Hahnemannian Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.
2. Health Sciences Postgraduate Program, University of Santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brazil.
“Vitalistic agriculture is the application of agro-ecological basics and the vital force or principle which rules nature. Agro-homeopathy is a tool to re-establish homeostasis of the systems of the plant. The application of homeopathy by agricultural engineers was legalized in Brazil in 1999.”
— Rossi F. Vitalistic Agriculture – The Art of Homeopathy in Agriculture. Hpathy. 2009.
“Building on the growing topic of agrohomeopathy, Prof. Pedro Boff, of the Agricultural Research and Extension Service Agency of Santa Catarina State (EPAGRI) in Brazil, will give a keynote presentation on how homeopathy can revolutionise sustainable farming at HRI Greece 2025. With over 20 years of research, his work demonstrates how homeopathy empowers farmers, enhances ecosystem balance, and can reduce reliance on harmful chemicals and pesticides.”
— Homeopathy Research Institute. Facebook. 2025‑03‑18.
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Jep.
Homoeopathy in plants is obviously as effective as in humans or animals.
Also reproducable scientific evidence is as good as in humans.
See Edzard Ernst 👉 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61709-0_8
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Known elsewhere as “watering”.
Homeopathy has a memory- but this memory – via H bonds in water is very unstable- it gets lost in about 50 femto sec.
This was publised in Nature-20 yrs ago- and independent of HP
M.L.Cowan et al. Ultrafast memory loss and energy redistribution in the hydrogen bond network of liquid H2O
Nature 434, 199-202 (2005)
Ah, ok.
HomöoMagic sugar works, but only 50 femtoseconds after beeing „energised“?
That’s the reason why we can’t find any effect in scientific studies? We‘re to slow!
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@Rolf Stolt-Bechtold
Except of course when you’re homeopath, who is exquisitely trained to work with inverted concepts like ‘lower concentration = stronger effects’.
Likewise, their research of femtosecond events necessitates a timescale of hundreds of years before any results can be seen. So it makes perfect sense that they can’t show us any results now!
As I’ve stated previously…
Homeopathy ‘works’ [is effective] as a business model; it does not work as a medical model. Conflating and/or confusing the two is a frequently committed ontological error.
Homeopathy is a business model that provides a service; not tangible products.[1]
1. “Because services are performances, rather than objects, they cannot be seen, felt, tasted, or touched in the same manner in which goods can be sensed”. Zeithaml et al. (1985).
Claiming relief from illness without any scientific evidence is not a business .
Frankly said, it’s deception. Snakeoil at its best!
Rolf Stolt-Bechtold wrote:
“Claiming relief from illness without any scientific evidence is not a business.
Frankly said, it’s deception. Snakeoil at its best!”.
Acolytes of SCAM are notoriously quick to point out that there is scientific evidence.