Homeopathic treatment for Urticaria

[CountessDracula]

I have this mildly, have been on antibiotics for about a year and suspect that this is the cause.

I just wondered if anyone knew a good homeopathic treatment for this?

cod has been cruel to ickle puppies by not giving them her old duvets that's all

Right...
Figures, people who are dumb enough to fall for homoeopathy, are dumb enough to fall for anything.

oh cunt off you tedious arse

quick I think i should be reported for being rude

There is no evidence that homeopathy works at anything other than a placebo level....Go back and see your GP.

right i must go and dye my hair
more fun than talking to you (not hard)

i am you knobs
tomorrow
she is a homeopath too

so ner

DC why is it that when my DD is constipated, one tiny sugar homeopathic tablet ALWAYS gets her to poo the following morning.

why is that then? she is 18m old. hardly "in her head" is it?
try giving a miserable baby camomila - see the positive effect
and as for arnica...

oh open your mind. or naff off.

don't bother

mwah cd mwah mwah.

Erm I would see a homeopath tbh - skin stuff tricky to prescribe except constitutionally.

i am seeing my gp in the morning who is also a homeopath

ah that will help. nat mur sorted out my mum's hairloss/psoriasis (following years of it, and consutations with consultants, steroids etc).

I assume Amdaiwish it's a placebo effect.
Again we see homoeopathy being cited as a "cure" for something that is well known to often sort itself out all by itself.

There's a couple of other explanaitions.

1: I could be wrong, the hundreds of doctors who signed a petition to try and stop the NHS squandering money on this crap could be wrong.
Could happen.
The bar for scientific proof of homoeopathy is very low. All you'd have to do is show that over a useful number of occasions DD was more likely to poo with the treatment, than not.

If you could prove homoeopathy, you would make the front cover of many scientific journals.
The BBC, in particular would offer you the post of it's science department, because they love pseudo scientific crap like this.

2: A more likely explanation is that given that homoeopaths are fools or liars, that they are being incompetent and/or dishonest. It may well be that they've added something that actually works.

Just saw this, CD (via bollocking link). DP had urticaria and was given a foul concoction by homeopath, which worked like a dream.

Don't know what it was called or what it contained but when we moved house a couple of years later and it flared up again,

he went again and got the same mixture (it must be pretty commonly used I would think) from a different homeopath.

It's the reason I don't dismiss homeopathy out of hand (along with the fact that I know so little about it).

Hope you get it sorted, it is a very quirky thing to have.

I think it's worth trying to draw a distinction between the specific con trick of homoeopathy, and random crap which has it stuck on the label to catch gullible people.

A foul concoction must contain something active, else it wouldn't be foul. It may of course also be harmful.
Homoeopathic quackery works on the idea that some people are dumb enough to believe that if there none of the original substance left, then it can still have an effect.
Such treatment can only be "foul" if you mix them with foul stuff.
Thus if you have cat vomit and add a homoeopathic dose of plutonium. You don't have a cure for radiation sickness, just cat vomit.

Dc some people do believe in homeopathy and that includes scientists and doctors. Reminds me of a quote along the lines of just because the majority don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true. Lots of medications have the placebo effect including ones for mild depression, I read in the New Scientist that exercise had more of an effect on mild to moderate depression than drugs did and that drugs given were a placbo effect after a blind trial was done. Interesting isn't it.

Er... to get back to the original question, I found dandelion extract is fab for hives - was the only thing that worked for me. Ok you can carry on arguing now...

i'm not going to bother.

Don't understand hoew people can take stuff and ' don't know what's in it '.....! Madness, writ big imo...

so mohze you know the exact chemical compound of everything you ingest then I take it...

arse
bollix
you are talking out of one and what you are saying is the other

so
i have vile cold
have been for a curry and had a monumentally hot soup which I have been assured will cure me by the morning, followed by some vile brandy, pepper and something else combo
am feeling a lot better but suspect just cos my mouth is numb and i am half cut

time will tell

Bed...not homeopathy nonsense is what you need...

CD, I am too tired to traipse through the whole thread, but...
Homoeopathy, used correctly, is very very effective. My dcs and I have had stunning experiences of it. One thing I would advise you against is prescribing for yourself. There may be several remedies indicated for urticaria symptoms but only one will match your case. If you took the wrong one, it may well help your urticaria but make other things worse or give you new symptoms. It is also important to get the correct potency, which is best left to a trained homoeopath, and just to have a single dose. Regular doses will improve the situation for a while but then the symptoms will return and you may end up worse off than you are now.
Sorry, this is a lot to read through, but I'm a bit of an evangelist about this. If you want to know more about it, or if I can help you to find a good homoeopath, please email me: [email protected]
And I would definitely avoid the antibiotics.

JodieG1, yes some doctors do believe in it, nearly all think it's garbage.

The core difference between science and art, is that what the majority think is of no relevance. Something can be true, even if no one believes it so.
But there is a key scientific principle here.

Homoeopathic bottles don't actually contain the stuff you are supposed to be cured by.
I do mean literally none, not "very little", or "almost none". None, zero.
Indeed control tests are difficult because if I had a vial of pure water, and a vial of a some "remedy", there would be no difference.

Indeed given that a properly prepared "remedy" contains absolutely none of the material, and that humans pick up such a wide range of trace crap for the environment, the net effect of drinking a dose of a this cure-all is actually to reduce the concentration of any "useful" "space time thingies" in your body.
The same effect can of course be achieved from tap water.

Oh, and GPs who are also homoeopaths....well...they only have to do a fairly piddly homoeopathic course, and if they also work as a conventional GP they can't really understand homoeopathy properly - allopathy and homoeopathy are extremely different in their aims. Allopathy aims to remove symptoms, homoeopathy aims to remove the sickness that causes the symptoms. And a homoeopath should really take about an hour to take your case fully - a GP is unlikely to do this. If you do go with the GP, make sure you are only given one dose of a single remedy (no dodgy blends).
I will go away and stop nagging you now