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

180 replies

poppiesinaline · 20/02/2007 12:07

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!?

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Ulysees · 20/02/2007 14:07

Dulcamara is the name of it.

Oh I know it works jimjams, I've been going for years and it's worked on DSs when they were tiny so how could that be psychological? £15 for an hour is really cheap too.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 14:16

Dopn't worry, you're preaching to the converted ulysees- the first time I used it on ds1 (severly autistic, non verbal, at that time with language ability of an under 12 month old) the effect was dramatic. I hadn't expected it to work at all, it worked dramatically.

I just no longer feel like I have to prove to people that it works. I'm not forcing anyone to try anything , and I'm happy to use it myself without constantly thinking "how does this work, how does this work". I'm more interested before taking something in whether it has the potential to cause harm. Knowing that it might doesn't necessarily stop me taking something/giving something to the kids for example, but that's not a conversation I have to have with myself about homeopathy.

Massive placebo effect in orthodox drugs anyway, and I don't stress about that. More concerned about the unwanted side effects. (such as use antibiotics- and uh oh there's a buggered gut buggered a bit more- doesn't mean I won't give them, but does mean I question myself before giving them).

A decent homeopath will provide an hour's worth of counselling anyway.

Ulysees · 20/02/2007 14:24

Glad to hear it jimjams. Why would drs use it if it was tosh? Plus our local organic dairy uses it on their cows? People use it on pets successfully? I can understand people being sceptical but when you've experienced it working you just know.

bambi06 · 20/02/2007 14:29

it worked for my dd who from an early age was prescribed with thrush and givn creams etc but nothing evr worked ..we saw a specialist but he said its something tha tlittle girls get as they dont wipe them selves stc..she`d had it since 6 months old and went to a recommended homeopath after two years of exasperation and within 10 days it had gone..how doyou explain that then?

RanToTheHills · 20/02/2007 14:31

yeah but if you've experienced it not working like me then you're not going to believe it in and aregoing to feel ripped off! Seeing yr GP is free as is a chat with a friend to talk over a problem!

Ulysees · 20/02/2007 14:32

exactly bambi. Glad it worked for her poor wee lamb.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 14:32

Your GP would talk to you for an hour for free? Hold onto him/her!

RanToTheHills · 20/02/2007 14:34

actually yet to meet,but YKWIM!
Myfriends generally will do though if bribed with wine.

frances5 · 20/02/2007 14:35

Homopathy didnt work for us, but I don't regret trying it. It certainly didnt hurt us. Its quite common for a lot of anti biotics not to work.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 14:39

well it depends what you need to talk about. I am lucky that I have one friend who I can talk to a lot about ds1's autism (and a certain mumsnetter who I frequently email with a "i feel like this is that OK" type question), but I don't have a good friend locally with a child as sevrely autistic as ds1. And I don;t know anyone who is as unable to get out and about as we are as a family. I find seeing my homeopath ever 4 to 6 months and letting it all out, stops me turning into some bitter and twisted cow. Because she gets it in a way others don't- and because I'm seeing her in a proferssional type capacity. Worth every penny of 40 quid for an hour.

That's what I meant about counselling. If you get a good one, it can be money well spent for that, never mind the remedy.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 14:44

frances - that tends to me my view to trying things. Antibiotics that don't work, might still have a good old go at healthy gut bacteria causing all sorts of problems.

DS3 is having repeated burst eardrums at the moment. He hasn't had any antibiotics- even the conventional doctors can't say whether they would be likely to do any good or not. BUt he has gut problems so I guess they're quite likely not to help that. I don't want to go down the grommets route unless we really have no choice.

I'm trying homeopathy and cranial osteopathy because a) both methods will either work or not work, but won't do any harm and b) have had good outcomes with both methods with the other boys for various things.

The homeopathy is cheaper.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 14:44

frances - that tends to me my view to trying things. Antibiotics that don't work, might still have a good old go at healthy gut bacteria causing all sorts of problems.

DS3 is having repeated burst eardrums at the moment. He hasn't had any antibiotics- even the conventional doctors can't say whether they would be likely to do any good or not. BUt he has gut problems so I guess they're quite likely not to help that. I don't want to go down the grommets route unless we really have no choice.

I'm trying homeopathy and cranail osteopathy because a) both methods will either work or not work, but won't do any harm and b) have had good outcomes with both methods with the other boys for various things.

The homeopathy is cheaper.

jaide · 20/02/2007 14:44

I am going to see a homeopath tommorow to sort out anxiety and feeling wound up all the time. Feel lke i need some confidence and self believe back as it has all disapeared following the birth of my 3rd baby. Has anyone had any adverse side effects to treatment? Also possible i could be suffering from mild depression, has anyone been treated succesfully for this using homeopathy?

TinyGang · 20/02/2007 15:00

Saw one years ago with dd when she was three for excema.

We went a couple of times - huge long discussions about dd, what kind of dreams she had (try asking a 3 yr old that question) etc.

She made up some drops for dd to take orally - they didn't do anything at all.

I decided to stop going when dd, in the middle of one of the huge lengthy discussions, noted to me rather loudly that 'the lady has got very big boobies...hasn't she mummy?? LOOK mummy! Just Look!!'

All very expensive and not very effective really. Dh just went and tried not to wince at the bill.

bundle · 20/02/2007 15:17

my visit to the homeopath was so powerful that I never got the problem again, and never even took the remedy

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KathyMCMLXXII · 20/02/2007 15:33

Snort.
Quite heartened to hear of all the homeopathy users who are really just using it as cheap counselling. Highly sensible approach IMO.

Jimjams2 · 20/02/2007 15:37

I didn't say I was using it just as cheap couselling. I said it has appeared, as a system, to work very well for us. The counselling is a complete bonus- but another reason why I visit a homeopath, and don;t complain about the cost (issue of cost came up somewhere earlier).

Wheelybug · 20/02/2007 15:46

my dh has very long curly eyelashes AND..... wait for it...... his grandfather had TB.

Must be true then

TooTicky · 20/02/2007 19:47

Jaide, after taking a remedy you may experience an aggravation - a worsening of symptoms - before improvement. This is actually a good thing as it proves it is working.

Also, as part of long-term homoeopathic treatment, symptoms from your past may reappear - this means they are working their way out of your body. Homoeopathy aims to bring about, over time, a state of complete good health.

colditz · 20/02/2007 19:52

Young children often have long curly eyelashes.

Our Grandparent's generation commonly suffered from TB. Make of it what you will.

NotQuiteCockney · 20/02/2007 19:57

Surely the trick with homeopathy is to see the homeopath for only a tiny amount of time, but shake a lot while you do it.

Maybe go by on a pogo stick, and wave through the window?

NotQuiteCockney · 20/02/2007 19:58

Oh, and to the person talking about having their toes burned, that's TCM (acupuncture-ish), not homeopathy.

TooTicky · 20/02/2007 19:58

HmmGrin

NotQuiteCockney · 20/02/2007 19:59

Or maybe we need to dilute the homeopaths? Get a big stadium, fill it up with non-homeopaths, let in one homeopath. And then get everyone to shake a lot?

Or maybe use a stadium that once had a homeopath in it? Or let a homeopath look at a picture of the stadium?

That'll fix everything.