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Anyone used homeopathy? Does it work?

218 replies

extraconfusedhelp · 27/05/2011 20:23

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?

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JBellingham · 02/06/2011 11:19

Homeopathy... Ha HA HA, big joke used by weak minded fools.

They also might want to buy this suit of Emperor's New Clothes I have available on ebay...

seeker · 02/06/2011 17:19

Keeping this bumped for research - peopel tell me there's loads, but I don't know where to look. Please, people, don;t be too smart-arsy or I won;t get the information I want.

seeker · 02/06/2011 17:22

Sorry - wrong thread. Be as smarty arsy on this one as you like!

pointydog · 02/06/2011 17:25

ah, I see. Yes, trill.

Divingforpearls · 04/06/2011 00:02

Speaking to 60 Nobel prize winners and 700 scientists at the Lindau Nobel laureate meeting, Luc de Montagnier suggested that water could in fact preserve the 'memory' of a substance that it had made contact with. The French Virologist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2008, told the conference participants that solutions containing the DNA of bacteria and viruses could emit low frequency radio waves to its surrounding water molecules. Even when the DNA had be diluted and virtually removed, the water surrounding the genetic material would still retain the 'memory' of the substance.

There is sufficient research evidence (see Society of Homeopaths website for full details of the clinical trials) to support the use of homoepathic treatment for the following medical conditions; allergies and upper respiratory tract infections, ankle sprains, bowel inactivity after surgery, bronchitis, childhood diarrhoea, chronic fatigue, ear infections, fibromyalgia, hayfever, influenza, osteoarthritis, premenstrual syndrome, rheumatic diseases, sinusitis, vertigo, depression.

An observational study at Bristol Homeopathic Hospital in 2005 of over 6,500 consecutive patients (sent there by GP's who could do no more for them) with varying symptoms found that 70% of follow-up patients reported improved health.

There are over 400 GP's who are also homoeopathic practitioners in Britain.

Wikipedia estimates 44,000 to 98,000 iatrogenic (adverse effects from conventional medical treatment)DEATHS per annum in US.

Yes, of course homoeopathy works for me, I don't know how, but they say over at the Hadron collider that they will find 'the God particle' soon! Why no call for their funding to cease?

Surely a scientist should be open-minded?

My head to toe eczema completely cleared, after 15 years seeing a GP, in 48 hours with homoeopathy. Amazing.

Happy open-minded peaceful thoughts to you all.

seeker · 04/06/2011 08:17

Montagnier was awarded the Nobel prize for work he undertook over 25 years ago.

It's important to note that he now thinks that DNA can transmit radio waves, and the HIV can be cleared from a person's system by eating a special porage. Among other things.

I think it is save to assume that he is not the scientist he was.

CoteDAzur · 04/06/2011 12:51

There is a lot of scepticism about Luc de Montagnier in France. He is almost 80 and has recently come up with these fantastical claims with zero proof. People are trying not to snicker out of respect, but the general idea is that he is going a bit senile.

CoteDAzur · 04/06/2011 12:57

"Yes, of course homoeopathy works for me, I don't know how, but they say over at the Hadron collider that they will find 'the God particle' soon! Why no call for their funding to cease? "

Huh? Hmm

They are not actually trying to find a part of God, you dingbat. They are trying to find the Higgs boson, a theoretical sub-atomic particle. It must exist for standard theories to work but nobody has actually observed it yet.

You see, this is how scientific method works. You come up with a hypothesis. Then you test the hypothesis with experiments. And you don't believe in things until they are actually proven with said experiments. Scientists are open-minded to possibilities, but they are not so cluelessly open-minded to any unproven wild fantasy that wind blows through their ears.

strawberryjelly · 04/06/2011 13:40

Diving ezcema is one of those conditions which is affected so much by emotions and stress. have you not thought about the fact that you had an hour with the homepath? The emotional support you got from that? The belief that the treatment would work?
I tried homepathy several times for mine and it did zero. I used chinese herbs for 3 days and it went.

Divingforpearls · 04/06/2011 19:28

strawberryjelly - it was the 3rd remedy that she tried that finally worked.

strawberryjelly · 04/06/2011 19:35

well that simply confirms what i said surely- it might have cleared up anyway - and the placebo effect.

2infinityandbeyond · 05/06/2011 10:48

I don't know where we would be without homeopathy. It worked wonderers on my autistic son. He used to get out of his car seat and go upside down in the back of the car and scream everyday. That was three years ago. He's now in mainstream school doing really well. So I'm obviously a big fan!
I recently found out that there's a nobel laureate (Montagnier who co-discovered the aids virus) who's researching the whole thing. He said "High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water molecules that mimic the original molecules" Here's the link:
www.homeopathy-soh.org/research/research-and-the-society/research-news/nobel-prize-winner/

SwanseaJac · 05/06/2011 10:53

I am glad you have tried Homeopathy as i have been really impressed with it. My youngest son is 20 and has just had pilonidal sinus - (spelling is prob.wrong.) Homeopathy really moved things and has helped in the healing process. Nurses at the health centre are impressed with speed of healing.
I suffer from eczema and Homeopathy has had more of an effect that ordinary medicine. Doc.'s words "there's nothing you can do for it so keep on putting on cream. Congrats. for thinking for yourself!

seeker · 05/06/2011 18:31

Just in case anyone missed my post of yesterday -

"Montagnier was awarded the Nobel prize for work he undertook over 25 years ago.

It's important to note that he now thinks that DNA can transmit radio waves, and the HIV can be cleared from a person's system by eating a special porage. Among other things.

I think it is save to assume that he is not the scientist he was."

2infinityandbeyond · 05/06/2011 22:19

Yes I missed it - thanks
Well I cant comment on Montagnier as I haven't read his work - and wouldn't understand it anyway!
It's wrong to say that homeopathy is expensive though. My son saw our homeopath twice before the screaming and going upside down in his car seat stopped - then another four or five times in the space of three years, so altogether about £200 - well worth the money believe me. He hardly needs to see her now - just when he's a bit agitated or run down. It saved him from being put on Ritalin.
On that note there's a great book called 'Ritalin Free Kids' by two homeopaths called Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman. If you're wondering if homeopathy works or not, just dip into that book.

seeker · 05/06/2011 22:56

So have the Reichenberg-Ullmanns claimed the million quid available for anyone who can actually prove in a proper scientific way that homeopathy works?

seeker · 05/06/2011 23:35

You don;t have to know anything about complex scientific concepts to know that Montagnier had patented a form of porrige that he is - or certainly was - trying to sell in South Africa as a cure for HIV/AIDS. IHe has a business making a product called Immuniti, which he is hoping to float on the London Stock Exchange and sell in South Africa as an alternative to anti retrovirals.

seeker · 06/06/2011 16:05

I have just discovered that Brian Cox calls homeopaths 'amnesiac water fondlers"

JBellingham · 06/06/2011 16:30

Yeah The Infinite Monkey Cage does give them some hassle, hilarious.

seeker · 06/06/2011 21:55

I've never heard it before. It has become my new favourite podcast!

Deesus · 06/06/2011 22:02

Instead of visiting a homeopath why not simply drink a glass of water then chuck a 50 quid note out of your window!

Alternative medicine that works has a special name. It's called 'medicine'

Wink
ChristinedePizan · 06/06/2011 22:52

A mere £200 Hmm

2infinityandbeyond · 07/06/2011 20:21

Thank you for your sarcasm.

Your attitudes actually remind me of those of playground bullies. Many people have written about their genuine positive experiences of homeopathy and your jeering, arrogant replies give away very narrow minded mentalities.

My question is, how can you actually be sure that science wont catch up with homeopathy and prove you all wrong? Might be a bit embarrassing, eh.

Rather than coming back with some jeering comment copied and pasted from some anti-homeopathy website why don't you actually listen to the real people who have seen it work for themselves and know through their own experience that it is not placebo.

The answer to the original question is 'Yes' it does work, but ignorant others like to jump on the denialist bandwagon to jeer and poke fun because they cant get their narrow minded heads around the fact that science hasn't caught up with the evidence yet.

James Delingpole sums it all up very well in an article published in the Daily Mail in March. He says, "It CAN work - and that's all that matters."

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1361681/Scientists-say-homeopathy-undiluted-hogwash-But-CAN-work--thats-matters.html

seeker · 07/06/2011 20:58

But, infinity, the point is that it doesn't work. It's been proved time and time again that it doesn't. It's not that it works but science hasn'tt yet worked out how - it just doesn't.

CoteDAzur · 07/06/2011 22:02

"It CAN work - and that's all that matters."

You mean like prayer? And a broken clock that is right twice a day?