Are there any Homeopaths about please?

[BigFatCushion]

I'm considering using homoeopathy for DD's Molluscum Contagiosum. I am very skeptical but at that point where I'm ready to try something new.

Anyway, I was googling some homoeopaths and I'm curious about something.

A couple of people have background info and state that they trained as 'a nurse/midwife/pharmacist' which to me is reassuring.

None of the relevant registers have their name on it though. Should they still be able to use the letters after their name if they aren't actually a member of the Nursing & Midwifery Council etc?

I may just be over cautious, but using a protected title should only be allowed if they're actually registered shouldn't it?

If you are a homoeopath please tell me to go for it, and that it will work!

I would agree that these people should not be using professional postnominals if they are not on the register (in fact you could contact the registering body as they are usually keen to stop this abuse) A local complementary health practitioner had a "telling off" letter from the GMC for using the title Dr but I don't think any further action was taken and he is still using it (although he claims one of his overseas qualifications entitles him to use it and I could not dispute that).

Please please search for the BBC Horizon documentary Homeopathy The Test. It's all on there (4 parts I think). Watch it all and please don't give any money to these (at best deluded or at worst cruelly and heartlessly manipulative) people.

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Sorry: to add the documentary is avaliable on YouTube.

Don't waste your money

I know I saw something Richard Dawkins presented last year (?) disputing it could be effective.

Argh to this stupid condition!

That Homeopathic A&E is hilarious.

I'm watching horizon now.

There is no possible mechanism for it to be effective. It's not just that it doesn't work, its that it can't work, you'd have to throw out every law of physics and basic logic.
And its not harmless either, people die from using homeopathy instead of real medicine.

Yep and difficultmformthe placebo effect to work on children (having said that, mummy's magic kiss is pretty effective)

Don't hunk it would work for anything mor than a bumped knee though

I used Thuja occidentalis liquid on ds. I painted it on each individual molluscum every evening and they finally disappeared. I do not believe they were about to self resolve , they were getting worse and speading before I took action. I also gave him Verullia by Boiron orally. I know it worked for ds.

Of course it doesn't work. If 'water has memory' then we'd all have cholera.

People who have found it 'works' are people who either had fuck-all wrong with them in the first place, or whatever was wrong with them was something that would just get better on its own sooner or later.

People who sell it are either gullible idiots (however well-meaning) or blatant con-artists.

It didn't though.

that was to mumof.

Ignore the homeopathy haterzzzzzzzzz.

However the most effective treatment is understood to be Comfrey Cream. Not to be put on broken skin.

In case the water gets through the broken skin?

Not hater zzz - just rationale

Am on part 3 of the Horizon test.

Compelling viewing. I now know much more about this, but still don't know what to do!

Bit of an ironic username...accuracyrequired? I think not.

Comfrey cream is herbal, not homeopathic. Has a chance of working, at least.

The comfrey cream stinks and is quite thick. Not having much luck with it (although I haven't been consistent)

I think it's not very difficult to understand that it contains sugar and water. What's difficult to understand and accept is that it can have an incredible impact on chronic conditions. The placebo or transferred placebo effect must be very powerful.

I do know that comfrey cream is not homeopathic - that's why I said however.

As in use homepathy if you want to, OP, without being embarrassed - but comfrey cream is the best treatment.

As you're so intelligent I would have thought that easy to understand.

I'm wondering why the threads where people offer or ask for prayers for the healing of someone's ill child or partner don't feature the same 'don't waste your efforts - there's no proof it works or mechanism by which it can do so' responses.

I'm no fan of homeopathy but I stand by people's right to use it without being harangued about their choices.

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Sorry to hear that Cushion. My experience is better. Good luck with the homeopathy, if there is a treatment.

I couldn't get hold of comfrey cream, but comfrey oil worked well on my sons molluscum, he'd had them for ages, they would disappear and then a new crop come up. He's now been completely free of them for about 12 months.

Didn't mean that to sound brusque! I really mean good luck with it!