Anyone successfully used homeopathy?

[dinny]

Taking dd today to try and get her warts treated

anyone have some positive stories about it in general?

It may have a placebo effect if you are a big believer, and the care and attention from the practitioner will feel nicer than a GP, but as the active ingredients in the pills are akin to one molecule in a swimming pool and any "memory" water has must logically have remembered everything else it's ever been in contact with, I can't help but feel you would be better off going with a more conventional treatment for your dd. No offence, but I wouldn't want you to waste your money, sorry x

positive experiences, please

I have TRIED conventional treatment FGS and dd is getting teased. really unhelpful post

If you haven't had any in a few hours, maybe that's telling you something? I'm sure a good health shop could suggest something else if you want to try something unconventional.

actually i think bitoffun's post was perfectly helpful and realistic. if you just want people to come along agree that homeopathy's great and not at all a complete scam/waste of your hard-earned, i suspect you may be on the wrong website....

back from homeo - she seems hopeful can sort it

I thought bitoffun was candid and helpful, too.

I have had mixed experiences withe homeopathy. Don't think I'd try it again.

Yes- lots of success, but it will be met with scorn on here so won't repeat (no time to get into arguments with people). There was a long thread recently in pregnancy that had lots of positive experiences shared on it - searching on homeopathy in the pregnancy section may pull it out. I did mention some of our positive experiences on it.

If it works it's medicine.

If it doesn't, then 'tin't.

will search, Jimjams

actually, I have had success with it a few years ago - when ds had a perianal abscess. subsequent operation and infection

doctors were talking about more surgery as it just was continually infected and homeo sorted it

just hope it works for dd, first dose tomorrow am!

Not a warts story but I used homeopathy on my DDs when they had chicken pox and they didn't scratch AT ALL. I mean not once.

My neighbour's wee boy was scratching like mad, I suggested she try homeopathy and he stopped scratching.

Don't see how could be placebo effect in my DD2 as she was only 12 months old.

Lots of people think homeopathy is nonsense in the UK but nearly all the people I know where I live in France use it as a matter of course, particularly for kids.

Good luck. Being open minded and willing to try different options is great IMO.

I'll keep you all posted!!

Unquietdad, so if, say, antibiotics don't clear up an infection, or chemo cure cancer, are they NOT medicine?

yes big sucess story here. I went to someone who was recommended & has over 20 yrs exp.

Ds had asthma and would throw up if running about or trampolining. He'd start coughing after just walking about and the get so frantic he'd be sick.

We've been seeing him for over 1 year and his last lot of medication has lasted for 3 mth and he's still doing well.

He never coughs and doesn't need his inhalers - so we are very chuffed with results.

Dinny - my somewhat glib point wasn't entirely clear. I don't personally believe that there is any such thing as "alternative medicine". There is medicine which works - i.e. shows significant effects in properly-tested clinical trials - and there is stuff which does not. The stuff which does not is usually sugar and water, or other such placebo.

My daughter had warts , which are apparently caused by a virus, and clear upon their own.
If homeopathy gives your daughter confidence to believe they'll clear up, her body may be stronger to fight the virus, and they may well disappear... the homeopathy worked! But not coventionally....

yeah, really hopng that's the case! either scenarios!

My dd had a particularly bad run of ear infections - 4 in 3 months, and therefore, 4 lots of antibiotics. I took her to see a homeopath who gave her one dose of remedy. She has not had a single ear infection since then, even when she has had colds in the winter which always used to trigger the ear infections. Who knows - maybe she just grew out of them, or maybe it was the homeopathy. All I know is that she doesn't have ear infections anymore.

I took DS to a chinese herbalist place when he was about 7 years old for treatment of his weird lumps up his arms and between his fingers. They expected a 7 year old to swallow massive big green pills. However, I did use the poultice they gave us to paint on and it worked.

The GP had said it was an unknown virus.

I am under no illusions and I do realise that his lumps were 'self limiting' anyway. by that I mean he could have got better in the same time scale if I had never used the poultice. We wil never know.

Just because the active ingredient is like one molecule in a swimming pool, why is that not enough? I'm pretty sure we don't know everything about science, and how the body works yet.

My ds saw a homeopath for his milk intolerance - he is now fine. Yes he could have outgrown it, but it all happened too fast.

He has also seen a homeopath for hay fever, and it did help, but also hos cat allergy disappeared. Like, in a few months!!

I have arrived late at this thread but for anyone reading late, i swear by homeopathy. It cured my baby's reflux in two weeks and treats everything from colic to chest infections like magic. I grew up on it in India and wholly recommend it to anyone who favours a natural approach.

I had bad reactions to infant immunisations and was often snuffly as a child; not serious enough to go to doctors - just constant snuffles...

But as I neared my GCSEs I couldn't afford to take more time off school - so my Mum suggested I go to her homeopath. I did and I was put on a course of constitutional homeopathic pills (don't ask me which one's it was a few years ago!) but it really cleared me up!

Also - arnica cream is THE BEST imho cream to rub on bruises / sore spots (especially when it feels brusised but nothing there) & no harmful chemicals if DD gets in eyes/mouth.

Have also found that a homeopathic cough syrup works wonders for when DD has a tickly throat - again no 'chemical nasties' in it, and tastes yummy so useful for even some of the trickiest customers! The syrup is Nelson's Sootha Children's Cough Syrup a useful one in any Mum's 1st aid kit.

I guess the jury is still out on alternative therapies; all I can say is I've always used them (& had them used on me), both my Mum & her Mum are "fans", so personally I think they can work - maybe 'complementary' is better term though.

There is a very big difference between herbal remedies and homeopathy - one of them has ingredients, the other is only water or sugar pills.

You should be very careful when combining herbal remedies and conventional medicine as the two may interact in an undesirable fashion. You can do whatever the hell you like with homeopathy (take the whole bottle of pills for example) because there is nothing in it.