Homeopathy - any good?

[Glow worm]

Just wondering if any of you good peeps in CC land have any experience of homeopathy treatments. I'm running out of medical options for a muscle problem I get every few months (that stops me cycling ) and am thinking of maybe trying some alternatives. Is it useful and worth a go - or a load of old cobblers? The World Wide Wait suggests it's both

 

[Markymark]

Cobblers. It's water. They'll try and tell you it's water with memory, but its just water. They'll also try the old "doctors treat the symptoms, we treat the source of the problem" spiel.

I'm not against alternative medicine, some has plenty of merit. Homoeopathy does not.

The human body has a remarkable ability to often heal itself. I would imagine it is often a case of ..homoeopathy distracts whilst the body cures.

 

[Glow worm]

Cobblers. It's water. They'll try and tell you it's water with memory, but its just water. They'll also try the old "doctors treat the symptoms, we treat the source of the problem" spiel.

Cheers Mark- I know nothing about it so any info is helpful.

 

[ColinJ]

There was an interesting Horizon programme recently on placebos, available on iPlayer until 3rd Mar 2014 - here. One experiment showed that even if the subjects of experiments were told that they were being given placebos which contained no active ingredients, many of them still got good results! I think homeopathy is a good example of that. If you want it to work, and somebody is being nice to you, taking an interest, and telling you that it can help then ... it might!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It works best taken in extremely small doses.

 

[ColinJ]

It works best taken in extremely small doses.

Apparently, it works even better if you forget to take it!

 

[Markymark]

There was an interesting Horizon programme recently on placebos, available on iPlayer until 3rd Mar 2014 - here. One experiment showed that even if the subjects of experiments were told that they were being given placebos which contained no active ingredients, many of them still got good results! I think homeopathy is a good example of that. If you want it to work, and somebody is being nice to you, taking an interest, and telling you that it can help then ... it might!

I read about that some time ago. Placebos were often thought to work on the basis that the mind 'thought' it was being cured. Even people being told that they may well be given placebos, they still were getting better.

As above, it's all a distraction whilst the body sorts itself out.

 

[welsh dragon]

I think it's a load of rubbish. There is no scientific reason for it to work

 

[uclown2002]

+1 Absolute BS.

 

[screenman]

If the person administering it is nice and good looking it works far better, and makes paying the bill easier.

 

[welsh dragon]

If the person administering it is nice and good looking it works far better, and makes paying the bill easier.

It's called being taken for a ride I think

 

[screenman]

It's called being taken for a ride I think

I know.

 

[Nihal]

I took them for for about two years because of wheezing and such.Never worked.I have dust allergy.He could have told me to wear a breathing mask in dusty places and take some Levocet if it got serious,but no,I had to eat those small sugar balls in which he used to put two drops of whatever "medicine" they use and follow some rules-wait half an hour after meals before taking them blah blah blah,supposedly helps in the long run.And they take more money than allopathic practitioners


And the same guy apparently used to give a homeopathic medicine to a lady who wanted her son's memory to improve,she was mental to believe that,I guess......…...should have asked her son to use more flash cards

 

[summerdays]

At one point I had to change GP's, and the practice that would accept me was a homeopathic one. I can't say that any of the specifically homeopathic medicines prescribed worked. On the other hand they prescribed some herbal ones? And they were more successful. I wouldn't knock all alternative medicines but no I'm not convinced by the homeopathic ones.

 

[screenman]

I think my wife maybe a homeopath, she tells me to get out on the bike and I will feel better, she is always right. Or is that proper medicine.