Homeopathic Remedy Pictures by AI

There has been a ton of conversation around Artificial Intelligence and how scary it is or it's going to be. I generally find innovation interesting, let's be honest, people said the same things about the internet, cell phones and even computers. Do I think it's going to take over the way people think it is, no, but it does pose some very interesting questions and concerns BUT those are for another time!

Today, I wanted to focus of something a little bit more fun. What does AI think some descriptions in the Materia Medica would actually look like. This also brings up something that I talk about with my patients about often. The description of the remedy picture is not necessarily a true description of them (the patient), in most cases it isn't even close. Not to mention that some remedies are "specifically" for women or for men, which I have never adhered to.

I also always, try my best, to discourage my patients from reading the remedy description before or during treatment. Not that this is a bad thing, if you want to know, you want to know. I do find; however, it brings up more questions than answers. I do think that there is space for introducing AI into the Homeopathic World, any tool that can make us (practitioners) more efficient or decrease margin of error is a tool I want to use, after all we now use computer programs where the old masters did not.

Let's talk about historical context just a little bit.

Most of the founding fathers of Homeopathy, whose Materia Medicas we use to decide on the best remedy were not treating BIPOC people. This means that many of the descriptions of people in these MM are of White or European peoples. Not leaving much room for the BIPOC community when we are reading descriptions. We also run into issues with descriptions of certain medical conditions being outdated and these will probably never be changed,

Back to the fun though!

Here we can see what AI generated Homeopathic Remedy Pictures look like, based on some of the descriptions we see in the Materia Medica and the results are interesting. You'll have to head over to my Instagram to see more of them or keep tabs on them as they come up and let me know what your thoughts are. It's also important to keep in mind that AI does not seem to generate BIPOC pictures, even when it is added into the description it sometimes doesn't come out well.

So, let me know what you think!! Whether you're a practitioner and you think I either didn't use the correct description or you think the image generated isn't correct, based on patients you've seen. Or, if you're not a practitioner what your thoughts are of the pictures you see versus the description used, you can see a few below and even try and guess which remedy is which.

Below we have Antimonium Tart and Apis, two of the pictures are of one remedy!

Young woman unwell

sick child

young woman unwell