To ask for your views and experiences of homeopathy

[R2G]

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

When my 5 month old son had a face like a plate of raw meat, weeping and oozing with eczema, on one bout of antibiotics after another; I was persuaded by a relative to try homeopathy. We went for a consultation. I had no faith in it at all...thought it was baloney and didn't like the practioner.
He gave us tablets . 3 days later, all the weeping and oozing had dried up and he was so much better it was crazy.
It was never so bad again.

Time, but were you swimming in magical, remember-y water?

@Bigearringsbigsmile what were the tablets?

I saw a chiropodist. This was as a teenager with my mum. No idea if he was exclusively homeopathic or whether he actually did stuff.

Please don't waste your money.

Bigearringsbigsmile had you stopped all other treatment at the time?

Or is it possible that it was coincidence?

(Glad your dc's skin is better though, I've one sleeping with his hands wrapped up so he doesn't scratch some nights. 😏 Mostly cos he forgets moisturiser unless we remind him though)

If it's not water, it's sugar and chalk pills. HTH.

@gavantula I was most interested in the responses of people who have actually tried it or similar and their experiences. The other info and links I have read for myself.

Yes I’ve tried it.

The only thing it cured was a positive bank balance.

Utter utter tripe and I’m ashamed I even tried it.

@bigearrings thanks for the info

It ought to be illegal. Not only does it have no beneficial effect, it gives snake oil salesmen an opportunity to peddle lies to vulnerable people, sometimes at the expense of actual medical help.

R2G are you not interested in the scientific fact rather than anecdote?

Thanks @glue what did you try it for and did you find anything else that helped since? Did you do anything else alongside it like address your diet.

I reckon this is a journo

I don't remember what it was...he is 15 now! No I don't believe it was coincidence and I am as cynical as the next person it truly helped him when nothing we were being offered by medics was helping.
It's up to everybody to make their own decisions and do what they think is right and helpful for them. On that occasion, it helped.

@gavantula more so anecdotes good and bad. People's journeys. I am not uninterested in the scientific info but have looked at that myself.

Homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo, but the placebo effect is very real, and should not be dismissed.

"People's journeys".

Ok....

@hbstowe no. Just several auto immune diseases treated one by one with pills and searching for other possible routes. Don't be so cynical.

My sister got treated homeopathically for asthma.

I got treated for migraine.

@gavantula peoples journeys to health.. After feeling like they had exhausted NHS treatment but still felt no better. What's the sarcasm about?

If you could find a way to ethically give people placebo id be all for it.

Homeopathy is a multi million pound con industry.

Deffo a journo. I’ll bite.

Yeah I used an alternative medicine called.... proper medicine. And who knew! Proper scientific backed medically sound treatment worked! Hooray!

@jsmith yes that's where I'm at at the moment. 5 mins at the doctors compared to an hour with someone looking holistically or the placebo of feeling some self efficacy with long term illnesses. There is something in that. I'm just wondering if there's more and what kind of success there was or failure too. Interested in that too

Placebo affect in anecdotal tales. I've never tried it because I know its bollocks

@m3lon did you find it helped at all? Did you feel that they also gave you more holistic advice? I'm thinking about dietary advice. Someone I'm thinking of seeing sort of does both but then I'm wondering about the homeopath side versus the nutritionist info. Wondering is both needed or could just stick with the gut health type side of it? Did asthmatic carry on with inhalers and annual asthma reviews alongside homeopath?