Anyone used homeopathy? Does it work?

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I have PCOS and just went to see a homeopath today. She has given me something to take.

I just wanted to find out if anyone has been treated by a homeopath before? And how quickly the treatment worked?

PPEAT- I did not say you were not intelligent: I did ask if you can comprehend. There is a difference. Some very intelligent people choose to ignore facts and stick to dogma or brain washing.

Because you seem to be delighting in ignoring FACTS as well as selecting bits from posts which support your opinion.

We have a bottle of homeopathy pills in the house. I don't know what they are supposed to be for, but they are known as the "placebo pills" and are very effective for the 4am "I've got a sore tummy" moments.

One day DD is going to learn what the word placebo means...

personally I prefer not to be a SHEEP & follow the herd & believe as politics & financial organisations such as medical companies dictate I should believe

I've been lucky enough in my life to have travelled widely & to have witnessed a lot of things that defy science (as science presently stands) & where as I can understand why SOME less enlightened people find it hard to understand that others can make up there own minds based on their OWN experience, as it differs from theirs - I really don't understand why that would warrant insults & such insistence that THEY MUST be the only ones heard -

I also don't understand why they don't get just how BORING it is to keep on going round & round in circles on the same un ending debate (which IS VERY RUDE in a none debate forum) - simply because they aren't getting THIER own way & everyone isn't bowing down & say oh aren't you so wonderful & don't you know SOOOoooo much - that smacks FAR more to me of "waaah waaah waaah" & throwing toys out of prams than anything the yes sayers have posted - quite disturbing reading when you realise some posters aren't actually that young

I for one will not be a sheep & chose to believe as MY personal experience dictates, rather than what I am TOLD to think - lets just hope the OP can see through the twaddle written here & do the same

Shame you didn't pick up a souvenir from Punctuationland on your travels. Then we might have a clue what you're going on about.

Well you carry on being a rockin'hippy who isn't a sheep and is much more enlightened than the rest of us.

I'll carry on applying real statistical methodology to real data.

Its a bit rich to accuse me of rudeness and throwing toys from prams and being a sheep and then say that I'm throwing insults. I haven't used such language about you. And have spent a considerable amount of time typing out explanations for the data which hopefully the OP will find helpful.

I enjoyed debating with yogagirl because she wasn't rude and we were both mature enough to acknowledge the points where we agreed. But your posts are really strange and don't make any sense.

"I believe there is a lot more that can be said about the existing evidence and about why there isn't more current research (a lot to do with money and politics) but as ppeatfruit has pointed out, too many people on this thread are more interested in personal insults than intelligent discussion so I'm not going to carry on."

I don;t think I have been rude at all. i simply asked you to post some more recent studies. The fact that you won't suggests to me that you realize that all the more recent ones don't support your point of view. To my mind intelligent discussion includes providing supporting evidence to your point of view.

Translation of rockinhippy's last post -

"I went on holiday and got fucked in several ways, some metaphorical, by a smelly man in a loin cloth who told me I was special"

None of that is helping your argument.

And it seems to me a damn sight more sheep like to accept without question what I'm told by anybody. Even if they do have lots of silver jewellery on and beautiful eyes.

Yeah, but no, but yeah but, when I was in India I had these homeopathic mushrooms that attach to your inner chi and channel your energy and karma and stuff, and then I flew to the bus station. No I did. I did. I DID. Damn you all, you're just SHEEP! SHEEP I tell you!

"witnessed a lot of things that defy science"

Like what?

Oh it's so depressing when the homeopath supporters vanish when put under a little pressure.

The problem is, it leaves the supporters of rationality looking like bullies and the undecided hanging in the air unsure which way to go.

LOL @ TheBride, by the way.

You lot are scarily funny. STOP making me piss my pants.

Well last week I had this giant spot, and what I did was, I drank loads of beer, and then a few days later the spot was gone. Beer cures spots.

I have certainly found Jack Daniels more effective for scoliosis than fucking osteopathy. And no, I was already too smart to try homeopathy for it before I went to the osteopath - I thought osteopathy was basically physiotherapy with a bit of woo. I have changed that opinion. There's more woo and less physio and more prolonged pain.

There's some kind of osteopath/chiropracter thing that is like nutritionist/dietician but I can never remember which way round it is.

I tried it once for dd2 when in a state of desperation. I imagine that's when most people use it.

No. It did not work.

Thats a shame pointy - that it didn't appear to work. Because when you are in a state of desperation is usually when things are worst, and when things are worst they do just tend to get better. Hence people thinking that homeopathy "worked" - they took is just as they were about to get better.

It didn;'t work. There was no appear about it

Regression to the mean.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=mitchell+and+webb+homeopathic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-
This might help OP.

sorry this

Homeopathy has only worked for me when I diagnosed and prescribed for myself. Two qualified people - one recommended by GP - were a waste of time and money, so I don't plan to pay anyone else. My view is that the consultation is the weak point and the system could well be effective for reasons as yet unknown, so it's worth trying it out yourself.

no homeopathic or natural remedy has side effects In my experience

Actually, they have one huge side effect, in that people think they work, so stop believing in/using conventionl medicine.

My friend uses natural remedies where she can, and I notice that my chidren get over illnesses quicker than hers do. She used something for whooping cough on her baby once, it made her (friend) feel better, but had zero affect on her baby! I guess she was too young to belobve the placebo effect!

pointy - in a slightly backhanded way I am saying it is a shame that your DD didn't feel better after taking it. :)

seeker - yes, regression to the mean.

differentname - Natural remedies can have both effects and side effects, because they have ingredients in them. They contain stuff which can have an effect on your body. Homeopathy doesn't contain any stuff of any kind, so the only effect is the one you have described.