Homeopathy - any good?

[Julia9054]

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFRBOPTQDc


I know this is quite long but well worth a watch!

 

[byegad]

The 'medicines' are almost certainly useless, but the talking side of it, each consultation lasts 30 minutes or so, is as good as CBT. I've tried both for my depression and anxiety.

 

[byegad]

True!

 

[vickster]

Surely a physio or massage therapist would help...although I expect it depends which 'muscle' is the issue

 

[edindave]

Wonder how much homeopathy I've absorbed through my skin on the many weekend soakings on the bike so far this year. Probably the equivalent of a homeopathic overdose.

 

[Glow worm]

Cobblers it is then- cheers for the replies folks.
It's a thigh muscle thing and I can't even walk far at the mo. At my wits end if I'm honest.

 

[Markymark]

Cobblers it is then- cheers for the replies folks.
It's a thigh muscle thing and I can't even walk far at the mo. At my wits end if I'm honest.

Osteopath?

 

[ColinJ]

How did you develop the thigh muscle problem?

 

[Kies]

I used a chinese doctor to treat my acute exzema in my 20's at the suggestion of my hospital doctor. Nothing else had worked in calming down the flare ups which would hospitalise me, so they could apply cold tar bandages on my arms and legs.
This chinese doctor gave me a fist size bundle of herbs to boil in water and drink the cup full of "black tea" after it had then simmered for an hour. Tasted disgusting, and i took it for a year.

My eczema is 90% better, and the 10% i do get is more my drinking, and crap food on occasions.

So for me homeopathy DOES work

 

[Glow worm]

How did you develop the thigh muscle problem?

It just appeared one day in1998 and I've had it ever since. It pops up every few months or so, sometimes not too badly but other times like now its debilitating. I've had 3 biopsies and no end of tests down in that London, and they can't figure out what it is, but at least they've ruled out a few nasties. Im contemplating a diet of strong lager - that should knock it on the head!

 

[winjim]

I used a chinese doctor to treat my acute exzema in my 20's at the suggestion of my hospital doctor. Nothing else had worked in calming down the flare ups which would hospitalise me, so they could apply cold tar bandages on my arms and legs.
This chinese doctor gave me a fist size bundle of herbs to boil in water and drink the cup full of "black tea" after it had then simmered for an hour. Tasted disgusting, and i took it for a year.

My eczema is 90% better, and the 10% i do get is more my drinking, and crap food on occasions.

So for me homeopathy DOES work

1. That ain't homeopathy.
2. People have DIED from taking strange herbs given to them by Chinese "doctors"

 

[ufkacbln]

 

[ColinJ]

I used a chinese doctor to treat my acute exzema in my 20's at the suggestion of my hospital doctor. Nothing else had worked in calming down the flare ups which would hospitalise me, so they could apply cold tar bandages on my arms and legs.
This chinese doctor gave me a fist size bundle of herbs to boil in water and drink the cup full of "black tea" after it had then simmered for an hour. Tasted disgusting, and i took it for a year.

My eczema is 90% better, and the 10% i do get is more my drinking, and crakp food on occasions.

So for me homeopathy DOES work

That sounds more like herbal medicine than homeopathy!

I don't think many people would completely dismiss using natural products as medicines - there are lots of examples that are known to work. It is the dilute-to-vanishing of homeopathy that is the problem.

 

[Rob3rt]

I used a chinese doctor to treat my acute exzema in my 20's at the suggestion of my hospital doctor. Nothing else had worked in calming down the flare ups which would hospitalise me, so they could apply cold tar bandages on my arms and legs.
This chinese doctor gave me a fist size bundle of herbs to boil in water and drink the cup full of "black tea" after it had then simmered for an hour. Tasted disgusting, and i took it for a year.

My eczema is 90% better, and the 10% i do get is more my drinking, and crap food on occasions.

So for me homeopathy DOES work

That isn't homeopathy, also people often "grow out of" eczema so given the time frames suggested, your improvement might have just been naturally occurring with age. Or the medicine might have worked. Very hard to say given the time frames and the nature of your complaint tbh.

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!

2 of my clubmates we part of that study, one was only filmed in the background warming up on the rollers (in club kit) and sat listening to the brief (wearing ADR kit), the other being the guy who did a PB (wearing ADR kit).

 

[PK99]

my best friend went to a homeopath with a persitant cough. homeoath diagnosed selenium deficiency and prescribed pills and diet changes. Despite cynicism from friends he followed the advice.

a few months later on emergency admission at a&e he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with secondaries on lung and liver. he was dead 9 months later.