Homeopathy... Anyone had any experience... saw one today and she said something rather strange....

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she noticed that my children had long curly eyelashes and asked if someone in the family in past generations has ever had TB?

Apparently, if someone in the family has had TB, someone in the 2/3 generation later will have long curly eyelashes

Just rather odd I thought..... What on earth has curly eyelashes got to do with a lung disease!?

oh God, there are some real charlatans out there and they charge for this?
indeed

I had one who burnt mytoe, charged me£50 and gave us some dodgy looking weed (that was extra)Didn't turn the babyeither.Never again!

Yes, she was qualified. She spent a whole hour with us and charged £15.

ah well... time will tell... time will tell...

My PIL swear by wart charmers.

To remove the warts that is, not flatter them.

And they once used a homeopathic vet for their cattle.

what did she give you poppies? DD has molluscum as well but it's been unresponsive to thuja. I've been told that it sometiems responds well to constitutional remedies.

Hey - veterinary homeopathy is used by a lot of professionals -don't knock it! There's no placebo with animals so they wouldn't keep doing it if there was nothing to it.

I didn't knock it. I mentioned it.

"There's no placebo with animals so they wouldn't keep doing it if there was nothing to it. "

Wrong on both counts! Firstly as it's someone's subjective description of the animal's symptoms that are being looked at, not the animal's own perception, so the placebo is working on the person. Secondly there could be an effect on animals (as on children) through the people who are caring for them - stressed carers lead to stressed patients and vice versa.
And people keep doing things all the time where there is no effect whatever.... plenty of charlatans in various fields make an excellent living.

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The palcebo affect is really powerful and no one knows how it works. It it works on babies, I am sure it can work on animals.

My own experience of a homeopath were that the potions were a bit of a waste of time. My son had an exceptionally snotty nose and the potions made no difference. I think the fact I did not believe in it stopped it working.

However the lady only charged me £10 an hour and was a retired CPN. At the time I had severe postnatal depression and I think that £10 an hour was a bargain for a private councelling session!

most health-related fields are regulated though!

I don't know what she gave me Sugarmagnolia sorry! Apparently though, what one child would be given for molluscum and what another child with the same condition would be given can be completely different. It depends on the child, family history etc... (and curly eyelashes ) so Im told....

ha very funny
yes because tb works individually on the genes for eyelashes
but only 2 to 3 generations later.
everybody's family had someone who had tb, surely, in th epast 100-150 years??

There is a great deal of wisdom in homoeopathy. Just because something sounds unlikely, it doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing to it.
Finding a proper Classical Homoeopath can be difficult but is well worth it. A homoeopath should spend an hour or more taking the case and then give only one dose of one remedy.

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there's a great deal of difference between unlikely and unscientific though, isn't there?
I mean TB = curly eyelashes, I mean that's just plain bonkers

yes, mine too Pruni
how curious, maybe our family had diptheria, that's the mnost likely explanation for it

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My son had that frances5 ,which was the reason th gp reffered us to the homeopath in the first place. It was green and gungy everyday.

He also saw an allergy doc at the hospital and they said it was Chronic Allergic Rhinitis. He has a nose spray now every night. Its been great. He now only has a runny nose when he has a cold.

I can't say for sure which one helped. I think it was the drugs though. We still go every 3 months for other things. He's had a remedy to help him with his tantrums and calming down. Thats fantastic. He also has some little balls for when he gets a cold. These seem to shorten the length of the cold.

dd uses teething remedys and hopefully will be treated for her ears.

But how can you be sure it's bonkers? It might be, but then it might not.

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And people produce lots of green snot for a reason. Repressing the symptoms is not wise with any condition.

Oh god. I would tend to use the word bollocks rather than bonkers, but otherwise I'm right with you. Is TB meant to be exerting selective pressure on eyelash length over a period of about 50 years? Aye, that would be right

does that also mean that in 2/3 generations time.. there will be no-one with long curly eyelashes ?