To ask for your views and experiences of homeopathy

[R2G]

Had anyone tried it to treat illness? Any good or bad experiences

It's water. Happy to help.

www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com

What AfterTrentham. Save your money - or spend it on chocolates and fun. You'll be the same or better.

I refer you to Tim Minchin...

or for a scientific view....

www.nhs.uk/conditions/homeopathy/

Yeah it might help... but only as a placebo....

Well there's certainly no danger of overdosing. So there's that.

Sorry. But it's really nonsense. I was embarrassed that I'd let a pharmacist recommend me "homeopathic hay fever remedy" when i found out. I was pregnant and sneezy at the time to be fair.

Well, I’ve been swimming a few times. It’s the same isn’t it?

Has anyone actually been for a consultation or seen any benefits?

Any homeopathic ingredients that work have already been developed into medicine.

A homeopathic practitioner is likely to take your money and not do very much.

Yep. Load of tosh.

It cleared a really bad case of eczema up for me about 20 years ago and I have honestly never had it since. I had suffered on and off for years. I can’t say why it worked but I would try it again. It wasn’t expensive either.

No. There aren't any benefits, unless you count being very slightly more hydrated as a benefit.

timeisnotaline

At Green dragon. Did you take something or was it cream? Did they advise you to alter your diet in any way?

I took a homeopathic remedy for an enormous cluster of verrucas.

For two years.

To be fair, the bloody thing was like a zombie, it survived dry ice, surgery, any number of chemical attacks. Eventuallyafter about five years I painted on at least the tenth different random remedy id tried and it died - probably of old age.

It definitely wasn't the homeopathy.

The magic remembering water really doesn't remember anything - it's just water.

The best you're going to get is a placebo effect.

They contain no active ingredients.

In fact, the more dilute a homeopathic remedy is... the more powerful it is. 🤔 Of
course.

I don’t think I spent any more than I would have on prescriptions and various lotions and potions so even if it was a placebo effect it still worked for me. I only vaguely remember. I saw someone who was a friend of a friend. Had a few sessions with her - asked lots of lifestyle questions and made me something which I think I added to warm water.

@temporarypermanent
Did you go to see someone or was it just like an over the counter natural homeopath thing? Thanks

Homeopathy, nah.
Natural remedies, herbalism, yep.

Thanks GreenDragon

@fibbertygibberts any joy?

How many homeopaths does it take to change a light bulb?
0.00000000001

Utter nonsense- illogical, dangerous (if used instead of something that could actually help) & at best a placebo. A local homeopath here doesn’t even use the minuscule dilute of whatever it is that’s supposed to be in there, he has a machine that vibrates the sugar pills at the ‘same frequency energy’ as the ingredient & hands them out after a consultation at £30 a pop. This article describes it perfectly:

respectfulinsolence.com/2015/11/30/a-device-to-put-homeopaths-out-of-business/

If you are ill there are many proven conventional medicines & depending on the type of illness many proven alternatives - but sugar pills sold by the modern day equivalent of snake oil salesmen to vulnerable & gullible people are not going to do anything at all.

R2G