To ask for your views and experiences of homeopathy

[R2G]

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

Thanks @greenelephantscarf for your experience. Regularly attebd the asthma clinic and take the steroid inhaler. Wouldn't stop but just looking into autoimmune around the body as a whole and seeking answers. Thank you.

I am not sure but there are recognised qualifications. The only person I knew who was practicing had a biochemistry degree from Cambridge and a further 4 years of study.
I guess I would start with google regarding professional qualifications, registration and insurance.

Not rtft but just came on to say it's all hocus pocus and a total con. You've as much chance of it working just by drinking tap water.

OP you asked me earlier about how and why I was referred to the Homeopathic hospital in Queen's Square. I have Scleroderma which started with chronic lung inflammation. I was constantly badgered to try homeopathy by various members of DH's family, none of whom had any serious health conditions or had used homeopathy themselves. I asked my GP for a referral and went along where it was all very nice, all qualified medical doctors, which I'd be surprised if it's still the case, and I was sent off with a free bottle of sugar pills. I decided quite quickly that it didn't work and was actually a burden and making me feel ill! I then discovered the "water with a memory" BS which I hadn't known about. How dumb but it was just over 20 years ago. I was very ill for a few years but stabilised about 12 years ago and I'm much better. I've observed this with a number of relatives and friends with severe medical conditions, it starts out really bad but stabilises, even DH's Parkinsons is much better than when he was first Dx although it won't go away and will get worse. I put it down to getting medication correct (steroids in my case), lifestyle adjustment and time.
I've got a friend who is totally committed to homeopathy and her family are the biggest pill poppers going, they've got a "remedy" for everything. Her shelves are groaning with the stuff, I counted 17 packets/bottles there once. I learned from DS, who is severely autistic and would not take medicine, that time and rest usually work for day-to-day ailments, anything more serious needs real medical treatment.

R2G contact the BHMA british herbal medicine association.

Abra1de that's homeopathic remedy using a herbal ingrediant not A herbal remedy. A herbal remedy has higher doses of the herbal in it, not diluted.

Also it's best to look for the THR symbol in the UK for herbals as those are actual medicines.

Sickandsurprised2019

I don’t use any homeopathic remedies? Did you mean someone else?

op It would probably better to ditch this thread and start another entitled 'does anyone have experience in using diet to treat autoimmune' or something.

Having homeopathy in the title is just causing a great deal of noise that swamping the signal....

I got given the wrong homeopathic remedy by accident once. It was supposed to treat arthritis but I got the malaria remedy instead, due to a mix up with the boxes. As there's no possible way to tell the difference between the two formulations even using a microscope they couldn't determine which was which.
I was seriously ill* following this mix up so wouldn't trust them again as there needs to be a seriously regulated paper trail.

*of course i wasn't, there is literally nothing in either treatment

Popehilarious

If you think you have an autoimmune condition - please be very very careful. My rheumatologist and me are convinced that taking a course of Chinese herbal medicine is what finally tipped my immune system over the edge.

John earnshaw at pateley Bridge is an excellent qualified herbalist.

John Earnshaw of Pateley Bridge has to be a made up person, surely?

Thanks everyone for the last page of comments I've just seen. Very helpful. Doctor also spoke about potential referral to a rheumatologist depending on bloods. I feel like I have more direction now. Cheers.

If you've got an auto immune disease a Rheumatologist is highly indicated

My cousin and her daughter use this medicine to clear up, or get to the route of a lot off issues that gluten free people seem to have. I have seen their skin clear up by using these remedies.

When my youngest one was unwell and nothing was working, I found one in my area and went with no expectations. What I found is that it helped cleared my little ones throat. It seems he kept getting unwell when the temp dropped outside a lot. The doctor said we need to make his immune system stronger so would recommend a lower dosage when he wasn't ill and a higher one when it returned.

The second time he got ill, we had to get more medicine. It's £10 a bottle and lasts ages. His throat cleared up by the second day. He had an awful cough that would keep him awake at night and stop him from eating during the day. So this second bout after we started the homeopathic medicine really convinced me as we hoped the dosage as soon as his cough intensified and by day 2 he was clear completely whereas before that it would last at least a week and was awful. I recommend it.

Many years ago, I worked as a receptionist/dispenser for a homeopathic practitioner. He had inherited the ‘business’ from his (well respected) father but was a complete charlatan.
We held ‘surgeries’ at regular intervals in different towns (as well as having the main office ‘surgery’). He charged like a wounded bull for ineffective, pointless remedies - so many trusting, sometimes desperate people being fleeced, I couldn’t continue and left that job very quickly.

My cousin and her daughter use this medicine
No, really, it isn't medicine. Medcines are tried & tested for safety & efficiacy in blinded controlled trials over many years. They are only licenced if they are proved to be safe & efficacious.
Homeopathic "remedies" have never been proved scientifically to be efficacious by anyone, anywhere, anytime. However, they are perfectly safe as they are only (expensive) water.
Herbal remedies are a different matter, but for some unknown reason some people seem to confuse the two. There may be effects from herbal medicines, after all many modern drugs were derived from traditional remedies. However I would rather take a drug which has been manufactured to certain standards, with precise amounts in the tablets, with known safety/interactions with other drugs etc etc.

What 'medicine' was it? Was there a picture or link i can't see?

The doctor said we need to make his immune system stronger so would recommend a lower dosage when he wasn't ill and a higher one when it returned.

If this was a homeopathic preparation then this was very dangerous. The more dilute the solution the more potent it is, according to homeopathy. Although you're probably fine as you can't really get more dilute than water

There is a lot of nonsense talked about the immune system. Many immune system illnesses are due to it working too well and attacking the body.

Yes I'm glad my immune system wasn't any stronger when it had a go at killing off all my platelets.... this problem was fixed by steroid tablets though. (Also i was lucky that a mn poster guessed what wad wrong so i got a blood test at the GP before it got even worse! )

DS2 was treated by a homeopathy for his severe eczema aged 2 (by a qualified medical doctor) - the eczema cleared within 2 weeks. He told us he didn’t know how it worked! We went to him with no expectations but he came highly recommended. It was the same doctor who cured Jenny Pitman (the racehorse trainer) of her hay allergy. I think you have to be very careful who you see though!