Efficaciousness of Homeopathy

Backing up FenelonSpoke on efficaciousness of homeopathy. Used it for 30 years and have seen some dang near miracles. If it's all placebo effect, that's some pretty good placebo effect.

1. Much of what is called homeopathy isn't.

2. Homeopathy is not easy, with thousands of remedies and a variety of dosages.

3. I've never seen testing of homeopathy that was done right. (E.g. if it marshalls the body's own defenses, you won't get the effect in a petri dish.)

4. As FS says, it's not a cure-all. There's a remedy that allegedly helps bone healing, but it won't set the break for you.

5. eman: By what mechanism does it work?
There are theories, one good theory I saw posted here one night years ago, but there is nothing at all shown about how or why it should work.

6. It's crazy stuff. If I hadn't seen so many cures for so many decades, I wouldn't believe it myself.

7. If you want to compare with "slow degradation" to voodoo and alchemy, I'd suggest acupuncture and acupressure, aromatherapy, healing hands, magnetic healing, crystals, reflexology, and any number of other possibilities would be better argument than homeopathy. Even most "herbal" cures are BS, despite herbs being the basis for so much good medicine.

FWIW, YMMV, IANADoctor

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