homeopathic remedies

[PositivePete]

AIBU to think it's complete twaddle?!?

I've just started a course with a homeopath who has promised me wonders for insomnia & anxiety ...

Am I being mugged off?

I'd really like others view

Works just as well as any other placebo

It is complete twaddle. It's water. If you believe it will help, it might help, but it doesn't sound like you do.

Oh dear. Hope you didn't pay too much for his magic water and sugar pills.

Get well soon! See a doctor if possible/appropriate.

It's nonsense.

FMAL

Its a con.

If you suspect it's twaddle (and it is) why are you beginning a course of, no doubt expensive, 'treatment'?

placebo only, which can have an effect even when you know it's nonsense. meh.

I far prefer actual medicine

Let's hope it's all twaddle. Imagine how vile it would be if water really did retain a memory of things that had been in contact with it, fish poo and all. I'd never drink it again

If you want a 'natural' remedy for insomnia, try Valerian which - very much unlike homeopathy- has been proven to work. And cut out all caffeine after lunchtime and all screens for 1 hour before bed - the light from screens prevents your melatonin level from rising enough to make you sleepy.

I'm not really a fan of Richard Dawkins, but I think he does explain homeopathy quite well in this clip.

Although Mitchell and Webb are funnier

Read my post on elbowing a friend if you want to know whwt people who believe it in are like.

There is no such thing as a homeopathic 'remedy'. It's water. It's not a remedy. Unless you're dehydrated, obvs.

Homeopathy! There's nothing in it!

snake oil x

at the least it will do no harm- unlike the side effects of many pharmaceutical drugs .

I don't believe in the active ingredients in homeopathic remedies, but consultations with a homeopath cured me of terrible headaches during pregnancy. I think it was that she gave me a long and thorough assessment, and was a trained Bereavement Counsellor. I go and see her again.

Was going to link the Mitchell and Webb sketch too!

P.S. I'd checked out possible reasons for the headaches with GP and Optician before going to homeopath (i'm not a fool)

Complete shit

If you believe that, armarmai, you don't really understand the concept of harm...

I've just started a course with a homeopath who has promised me wonders for insomnia & anxiety ..

Insomnia and anxiety are issues where I am convinced homeopathy will do wonders.

@creampie: So you don't think pharmaceutical drugs have harmful side effects?

And by what definition of harm do sugar pills "harm" someone who is not diabetic? I suppose it could be bad for the teeth, but it is not as if most people don't eat kilos of sugar each year, anyway.

This subject comes up here again and again and all the pseudo-scientists come out with their belief that homeopathy has been proven not to work. If people had a concept of science that went beyond Newton, they might realise that it could work and if they had a concept of science that was based on observing phenomena before trying to have a theory, rather than trying to fit all phenomena into pre-existing theories, they might learn something.

Unfortunately everyone who posts that homeopathy has worked for them will be told it was a purely placebo effect and so it will go on.

If the principles of homeopathy are valid then even lowly tap water is ...

a) a powerful remedy that can heal all ills.

b) an overdose waiting to happen due to the massive diluteness (hence super mega powerful properties !) of all the once met "active ingredients".

The water cycle is a closed cycle.

It's been bashed about (succussion) and diluted again and again and again, with every element and compound known to mankind in it at some point.

As rain, as sea, as river, as loo water... round and round for millions of years, all violently diluting everything that it ever had disolved into it in the first place.

May I be the first to mention Ben Goldacre? There is a most entertaining chapter about homeopathy in his book "Bad Science".

Lol Atomik! Very true!

@vestalvirgin, of course pharmaceuticals have side effects, I meant that homeopathy isn't harmless in that it can prevent people from seeking appropriate medical care.

Mitchell and Webb

I've tried it with an open mind....came to the conclusion that it is twaddle! Expensive twaddle!