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Does homeopathy work?

199 replies

arbitraryarsehole · 12/03/2023 16:12

Interested in views from people who have had homeopathic treatments please. I'm open minded to alternative medicine but also don't want to waste my money if there is no benefit. Thanks 😊

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AlisonDonut · 12/03/2023 16:12

No.

If it did just drinking water would cure everything.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 12/03/2023 16:13

No.

KnittingNeedles · 12/03/2023 16:15

Course it doesn’t.

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ImCrunchyOnTheOutside · 12/03/2023 16:17

Nope.
Placebo effect at best.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 12/03/2023 16:19

I have found it very useful for nervous conditions, or conditions where you need to rebalance the body after illness or trauma.

Tinypetunia · 12/03/2023 16:24

No. It's diluted so much that it's no more than water.

LysHastighed · 12/03/2023 16:24

If ‘alternative’ medicine worked it would just be called medicine. Please consider being more open to evidence-based medicine.

Dinopawus · 12/03/2023 16:24

No.

If you broke your leg would you want an effective dose of morphine from a qualified health professional or a 10,000th of the required dose given to you be someone off the Internet with a certificate?

Botw1 · 12/03/2023 16:25

Of course not

coodawoodashooda · 12/03/2023 16:26

Yes. My children and I have experienced trauma and it has helped us enormously

MollyMunster · 12/03/2023 16:26

No it doesn’t work.

You might get an improvement as a placebo effect so might feel better, but it wears off after a couple of months max.

SnarkyBag · 12/03/2023 16:28

No it doesn’t but I do think it can have a placebo effect for “emotional” issues.

StillMedusa · 12/03/2023 16:29

Stealing a bit if Tim Minchin's 'STORM' poem here...

Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved.
If you show me that, say, homeopathy works, then I will change my mind
I'll spin on a fucking dime
I'll be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
'It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it!
Water has memory!
And while it's memory of a long
Lost drop of onion juice seems Infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it!'
You show me that it works and how it works
And when I've recovered from the shock
I will take a compass and carve 'Fancy That' on the side of my cock."

No homeopathy does not work!

IsThePopeCatholic · 12/03/2023 16:30

Pure quackery.

jays · 12/03/2023 16:37

LysHastighed · 12/03/2023 16:24

If ‘alternative’ medicine worked it would just be called medicine. Please consider being more open to evidence-based medicine.

That’s very misleading. Many forms of alternative medicine, whether they’re effective in treating the condition or not, contain active ingredients. St John’s Wort for example is contradicted for use with the contraceptive pill. There are many more examples. Many alternative medicines ‘work’, many allopathic medicines fail. It’s about testing, funding, licensing, marketing and profit. On both sides. I’ve no personal faith in homeopathy but many alternative medicines have medically approved contradictions, therefore they have effect.

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arbitraryarsehole · 12/03/2023 16:38

Some of these answers are so predictable 🙄 & it's why I asked for answers from people who've had homeopathic treatments.

I'm not anti evidence based medicine at all but I also believe there's more to life. I don't need to see a research paper on everything, I can consider peoples lived experiences to be evidence too.

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pawz · 12/03/2023 16:39

Not in my experience.

carriedout · 12/03/2023 16:43

I'm not anti evidence based medicine at all but I also believe there's more to life. I don't need to see a research paper on everything, I can consider peoples lived experiences to be evidence too.

Hahahahahahaha...

This is ridiculous. There has been extensive research into people's 'lived experience' of homeopathy and it has been proven to not work.

But the gullible will believe what they like. So go right ahead.

TJsAunt · 12/03/2023 16:43

people's lived experiences are just anecdotes though? there will be people who feel they gained something personally through homeopathy, but that is meaningless. The poem is good - water has no memory. multiple dilution doesn't make anything stronger - just common sense tells us that.

herbal medicine / acupucture can do good. but that's quite different?

mynameiscalypso · 12/03/2023 16:43

I've tried it when you get and vulnerable. It does bugger all and it makes me really me really angry that people exploit those who are desperate by charging £££ for some fancy water. When there's something wrong, you're often so desperate for things to get better that you'll try anything and homeopaths prey on that.

mynameiscalypso · 12/03/2023 16:44

You get = young

Marynotsocontrary · 12/03/2023 16:52

I don't need to see a research paper on everything, I can consider peoples lived experiences to be evidence too.

This really isn't a great strategy when you're trying to determine if a medical treatment will work/is suitable for you.

LubaLuca · 12/03/2023 16:54

No, it is not possible to cure any ills using water (other than dehydration, which a pipette's with is not going to help).

It can be useful to help people who are suggestible to believe they feel better, because they've done something, which is fine. If you want to believe it works, it will for some health conditions.

I just wish there was some regulation on it, so that people weren't so badly ripped off. We all balk at the cost of bottled drinking water, but when put in a little glass dropper bottle they can charge a few thousand times more because it's 'medicinal'.

CalistoNoSolo · 12/03/2023 16:55

carriedout · 12/03/2023 16:43

I'm not anti evidence based medicine at all but I also believe there's more to life. I don't need to see a research paper on everything, I can consider peoples lived experiences to be evidence too.

Hahahahahahaha...

This is ridiculous. There has been extensive research into people's 'lived experience' of homeopathy and it has been proven to not work.

But the gullible will believe what they like. So go right ahead.

Very well put, especially the gullible bit.

Dinopawus · 12/03/2023 16:57

That’s very misleading. Many forms of alternative medicine, whether they’re effective in treating the condition or not, contain active ingredients. St John’s Wort for example is contradicted for use with the contraceptive pill. There are many more examples. Many alternative medicines ‘work’, many allopathic medicines fail. It’s about testing, funding, licensing, marketing and profit. On both sides. I’ve no personal faith in homeopathy but many alternative medicines have medically approved contradictions, therefore they have effect.

St John's Wort isn't homeopathy, it has active ingredients.