Any homeopathic experts around?

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I have recently consulted a practitioner regarding persistent tonsillitis.

The remedy he suggested has been sent as Muriatic Acid 200 x 2 tablets followed by drops of the same at a lower dose daily.

I am a bit apprehensive to start these but wondered if anyone had any experience with this remedy?

Thanks!

What did your GP think when you outlined this to them?

A lower dose 🤣 it's all just water

Muriatic acid is hydrochloric acid. You have hydrochloric acid in your stomach naturally, at quite a high concentration. Adding homeopathic amounts to that will do nothing.

What’s your reluctance? Surely it’s worth a try?
Id also recommend having fresh lemon, ginger and honey drinks, helped me massively with tonsillitis.

I’ve only ever had good success with homeopathic treatments, those that scoff have most likely never tried it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Why are you apprehensive about taking sugar pills?

“Homeopatic” and “expert” don’t go together.

There is no such thing as a homeopathic expert because homeopathy is just placebo. There is no need for reluctance because the pills are just sugar, they can’t harm (or help) you.

Middle aged - did your successes include gradually getting better from things that you have recovered from anyway? Like a cold? Homeopathic stuff contains no active ingredients in detectable quantities, it’s impossible for them to do anything.

Thanks for some of these replies 🙄

Reluctance being I'm worried it may aggravate my throat further. I've been using honey/lemon drinks which do soothe.

I've had seven episodes over a year and it's getting a bit shitty tbh!

It’s worked for me all my life when conventional medication has failed.

OP - why the eye roll? I reserve my eye rolls for people who believe this clap trap, and even more so for the people who make money from it?

before handing over any cash I'd as some questions about how taking a tablet of something you already have in copious amounts in your stomach will help a problem in your throat.

There won’t actually be any hydrochloric acid in the pill, just the “memory” of hydrochloric acid.

I was brought up by two homoeopaths.

I didn't visit a proper doctor until I was old enough to register and take myself.

Instead me and my siblings were "treated" by either our parents or by the homeopath they studied under who held some sort of almost godlike status.

I can say with some confidence that my hayfever, cripplingly painful and heavy periods, eczema and undiagnosed-until-adulthood-autism were not helped one iota by any of the sugar pills I was given for them. Miraculously, antihistamines/ibuprofen/tranexamic acid/accepting my autism and making adjustments for it all worked wonders. My parents actually think that these things improved because of "regression to the mean" and that me taking conventional medicine had nothing to do with it and I must have just been "ready" to get better from them.

It may surprise you to hear I have very little to do with my parents these days

Defo needs another outing…

Some people say that homeopathy is ‘just’ placebo (including a poster on this thread). I don’t think that the word ‘just’ should be paired with the word placebo. Placebo is a really really powerful, scientifically proven phenomenon that is linked to people getting better. I think that anything that can bring on the powerful placebo response would be worth taking. I don’t know if homeopathy is ‘just’ placebo, but even if it is, surely it’s worth taking?

I think I'm at the point where if it helps, I don't care what's in it 🤣🤣

There is nothing of the actual thing left, it is a vibration held in water. It won't hurt you, if it is the wrong remedy it just won't work, if it's right then it will help. I had antibiotics after antibiotics in my 20's for kidney infections...found a homeopath lived next door but one and never looked back. Never had antibiotics since. Have just been unwell with cough which I couldn't shift with it..but anyway it has worked bloody wonders for me.

It won’t harm you or help you. It’s wholly ineffectual nonsense.

It’s water and sugar pills so won’t do you any harm except to your bank account

In homeopathy lower doses are actually higher doses.
Diluting more times supposedly makes the remedy stronger. So lower homeopathic doses have been diluted fewer times.

I've found some absolutely marvellous medication for you - it'll taste even better as you let it dissolve in your mouth, even if side effects may include the occasional blue tongue.

What's more, they're easily sourced and modestly priced compared to 'expert consultants' and their fees.

With chronic tonsillitis I would look into having them taken out - they're probably so damaged you have no proper function from them anymore. In the meantime, if you're reluctant to take antibiotics, an oral antiseptic for gargling is probably the best way to go. Iodide solution is what I was prescribed for a similar condition before surgery.

I was taken to the homeopath for mild asthma as a child instead of the GP. Due to damage from persistent untreated asthma attacks I now have severe brittle asthma.

I'm not saying conventional, western, medicine is the be all and end all and that there aren't any other options out there. People were drinking willow bark tea for headaches long before they knew what salicylic acid was.

But I would be consulting a herbalist or a Chinese medicine specialist etc long before I ever considered homeopathy if for some reason I really wanted to avoid seeing a GP

Seven episodes of acute tonsillitis in one year would meet the criteria for a tonsillectomy.