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I amazed people believe in this stuff ( homeopathy )it defies all logic.

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Old Fogey, I found that bloke doing the video quite unpleasant and cocky. He didn't do it with an open mind at all, his only intention was to ridicule this treatment and find fault.

Lets have a little look at the other point of view as well:

https://homeopathy-uk.org/treatment/...for-homeopathy


Regarding other types of 'Alternative Medicine', like in most things, perhaps wiser not to criticise things you have never tried and have no knowledge of?

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Can't open the 2nd link...Yes I agree if you want to investigate, learn about something, you must be open minded.... that guy had long formed an opinion that Homeopathy is a con before making that flim.

I know of people who have had their children treated with Homeopathy, minor ailments that their Doctor seemed to think, its something they would grow out of.

The Homeopathy treatment worked, placebo effect... the kids were to young.

Wrap a hanky tight around your hand, and clench a fist stops a nose bleed.. why and how no one knows.....so does that mean it don't or shouldn't work

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If a young child is told that a treatment would make them better, they would probably believe that to be true, and therefore it may have a placebo effect.

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As to this 'Placebo' affect everyone spouts about, could they explain how come this works on animals then?
How do the animals know whether you are giving them a dummy pill or the real thing? Hmm?


Homeopaths believe we all react differently to illness.
We often all react differently to the same illness even.
I tend to agree with that because we are all very much individuals.

Take a simple thing like a cold for instance.
Some will get a sore throat, shivery and a fever.
Others will barely get a sniffle.
Some it will rapidly turn into Bronchitis, Flu, Pneumonia etc.

So because we all react completely differently, they say they offer a remedy to treat that persons reactions to the illness. Whereas more orthodox medicine tends to treat the illness, rather than how the individual is dealing with it. A 'one pill fits all' way.
Because we all react differently, I also believe this is why the annual Flu jab suits some people but can make others very unwell.

Homeopathic Vets work on the princpal of treating the individual's reactions, but of course it must be harder for the Vets as their clients can't tell them how they are feeling mentally.

Anyway, Homeopathy is only one of many 'alternative treatments.'

What about Ayurvedic medicines?
Acupuncture?
Spritual Healing?
Using different Aromtherapy oils and massage?
Even Hypnosis?

And many more 'alternative treatments' there are too.

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I've got an open mind especially where homeopathy is concerned.

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A good number of years ago a reflexologist of our acquaintance asked if she could try it out on my husband, our Down's Syndrome son and myself. Just to please her we gave the woman our permission, it wasn't a pleasant experience at all. She also came up with some crackpot nonsense about our lad, which the silly woman said she sensed when doing her bit on him!

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We had a cranial osteopath do her stuff on our daughter when she was a baby. She too identified certain character traits from her "feeling" session, all of which proved to be correct.

Funny old world, eh?

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Exactly, Dex.
Just becasuse someone has a bad experience, it doesn't mean to say we all will.

I also believe that there are good and bad in every type of work you can think of.
Just because someone has GP as their title, won't make them always right in their diagnosis/treatment, but do we complain about ALL doctors because for that?
No.

Yet people condemn ALL alternative treatments because they (or even someone they vaguely know) had a worthless experience.

I know there are some useless Vets, but it doesn't make me condemn ALL of them. Luckily I am blessed with mine.

I do wish more people would make their own mind's up instead of just going on heresay.

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Obviously I agree.

As I've mentioned before, my sister has had MS for around 20 years now. She occasionally has to go into hospital after suffering fits (often caused by bladder infections which her inability to move makes worse as she can't "work it through", if you catch my meaning and strong antibiotics have to be given and her progress closely monitored).

She has seen numerous doctors and specialists over the years, none of whom seem to agree with what the others have said. Indeed, in the early days of her illness, one persuaded my bro in law that a brain biopsy needed to be done. In retrospect, this was not only unecessary since they not only couldn't determine a course of action/cure (because it doesn't exist!!), but made things worse as she has had the shakes ever since.

But, I digress.

Not ALL things are understood by everyone. So one should be wary of discounting what might seem absurd, but which curiously has a long history of actually helping!!