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homeopathic remedies

31 replies

PositivePete · 07/12/2015 16:19

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 Hmm

OP posts:
badtime · 07/12/2015 21:19

Atenco, so when they test homeopathy by giving either 'real' or 'fake' homeopathic ingredients to practising homeopaths and not telling them which are which, and the results show that the 'fake' remedies are as effective as the 'real' ones, how is that problematic?

Atomik · 07/12/2015 21:30

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.

It worked for me.

I got better really fast after my (free) consultation at... think it was the Tunbridge Wells (? something like that, v. leafy, posh and lovely compared to Barking, Essex) school, or hospital I think. I was seen by a small panel of homeopaths who were teaching the next generation of homeopaths. While the student (that had persuaded me to come along) observed. This was back in the mid 80s.

Almost immediately my mood was so much lighter. And my next period didn't knock me off my feet. Which is why I had gone. Intensely painful periods.

The fly in the ointment is .... I didn't actually take the pills Grin. Cos they had odd sounding names, I wasn't quite sure what they were made of and I was scared of poisoning myself by mistake I think. Plus back then there was a rule about no coffee and no more not toothpaste when taking remedies and ... no coffee + herby toothpaste was my idea of hell.

The "magic" was the extensive consultation. My GP couldn't afford to spend 2 hours closely questioning me about life events, emotional states and health concerns (of all degrees of severity), cos .. other patients. The homeopathy teachers could. And boy did I have a huge need to be heard by that point.

Unfortunatly the effect didn't last. Had I put 2 and 2 together at the time I would had realised that what I needed to do was push for some kind of counselling. Instead I just sank back down again, having enjoyed a brief time of uplift, peace and no period pain.

Probably a good thing I didn't taken the pills. If I had I for sure would have thought they were the reason for the respite. And I would have spent an inordinate amount of time and money I could ill afforded charging between London and the Leafy place, or buying sugar pills from some alternative source.

Atomik · 07/12/2015 21:31

edit..

No MINT toothpaste.

PunkrockerGirl · 07/12/2015 21:34

Atomik is spot on.
OP, if you have paid good money for this, please please don't part with any more. The only person benefiting from the shite you've been sold is the charleton who's taken your money.
Homeopathy doesn't work.
Some complementary therapies work alongside conventional medicine. Homeopathy isn't one of them.
I think under the trades description act you would be entitled to a refund. You were sold a product doesn't work.

badg3r · 07/12/2015 21:46

Tim Minchin said that alternative medicine that has been shown to work is called... medicine. I love that guy. Homeopathy is alternative medicine.
I'm a science type. I know there is no clinical evidence that it works. But if all the hocus pocus it makes you feel a bit better I don't see the big problem with using it for minor ailments, just don't chuck much money at it. It's kind of like those ten years younger face creams. They probably don't work. But I if it's not doing harm then why not, as long as you don't lose huge sums of cash or pass off actual medical help.

badg3r · 07/12/2015 21:49

P.s. yes complete and utter grade A twaddle though!

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