Homeopathy?

Bernie57 · 30-03-2010 4:11pm

The "Bishops Skull", a faith cure for whooping cough, which existed in Cavan between Virginia and Kells has now passed into my care following the death of Peggy, the lady who honoured it for many years. She was my late husband's aunt. We are keen to keep it available to everyone who needs it. So it is now in Athboy. Word of mouth will also lead those who need it to it but the internet is a good place to start. The O'Reilly family. It is free to all who believe in its power.

robindch · 30-03-2010 4:22pm

Bernie57 wrote: »

The "Bishops Skull", a faith cure for whooping cough

Do post a picture, please!

King Mob · 31-03-2010 4:03pm

How would you like a million dollars?

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Hooded Healer · 02-04-2010 11:24am

It's time to Google "rearology"!

Flamed Diving · 09-04-2010 4:28pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f975xKbLm4k

1. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2002 December; 54(6): 577582.
A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy
E Ernst

Ernst is a leading homeopath, check out the result of this review.

:pac:

Flamed Diving · 16-04-2010 8:11pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6BZv6_DLc

Would be really funny, if it wasn't real...

looksee · 17-04-2010 9:55pm

I have never used homeopathy myself because I cannot convince myself that it has any value.
However, some years ago I had a cat which got some sort of a skin disease, a bit like mange. The vet tried a number of treatments on it over a good few months, but it didn't make any difference. Eventually he said, look I'm not convinced myself, but there have been good results with homeopathy. He tried this on the cat and the skin complaint, which had been pretty bad, cleared up over a week. So, I don't know how or why it worked, or if it was coincidence (some coincidence though!) but that was my experience of homeopathy.

King Mob · 18-04-2010 2:01am

looksee wrote: »

or if it was coincidence (some coincidence though!)

Why is it such an amazing coincidence?
Sicknesses only ever do 3 things, get worse, stay the same or get better.

So which is more likely do you think: your cat just got better by itself or water can be magically made to remember a substance?

looksee · 18-04-2010 11:24am

King Mob wrote: »

Why is it such an amazing coincidence?
Sicknesses only ever do 3 things, get worse, stay the same or get better.

So which is more likely do you think: your cat just got better by itself or water can be magically made to remember a substance?

It was an amazing coincidence if the cat got better in the week following the homeopathy having failed to get better over the previous 12 months. Of course he might have heard us discussing that he would have to be put down if he didn't get better this time!

I have no strong feelings about homeopathy one way or the other, though I would tend to be negative, I am just relating something that happened.

King Mob · 18-04-2010 12:14pm

looksee wrote: »

It was an amazing coincidence if the cat got better in the week following the homeopathy having failed to get better over the previous 12 months.

And again why is that so amazing?
Where other treatments ongoing at the same time?
What was actually wrong with it?

looksee wrote: »

Of course he might have heard us discussing that he would have to be put down if he didn't get better this time!

Not as ridiculous as it sounds.
There is some evidence to suggest animals can feel a placebo effect.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=263

looksee wrote: »

I have no strong feelings about homeopathy one way or the other, though I would tend to be negative, I am just relating something that happened.

The thing is you're not really relating what happened. You're relating what you remember as happened. Often there is a large difference in between them.
Is it possible that you are misremembering bits?

25-07-2010 8:35pm

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/04/20/new-age-terrorists-develop-homeopathic-bomb/

Belfast · 09-02-2012 2:27am

hipchick wrote: »

First things first, the reason i quoted that homeopathy works for breast cancer is because when a friend visit her gp he found a lump, she is 37. The doc wanted her to get it removed, but rather then have the breast removed she wanted an alternative. Over a years treatment by an indian homeopathist she no longer has a lump. I think that if it works then yes people should be made aware of an alternative to a masectomy.

Placebo effect yes i do understand all about it but do not beleive that Homeopathy is like it at all.

Sound like a bad diagnosis rather than a cure.

I willing to consider a lot of alternative medicine , but homeopathy is way too far out there for me.

Might as well use holy water.

Histie · 08-08-2012 12:45am

looksee wrote: »

It was an amazing coincidence if the cat got better in the week following the homeopathy having failed to get better over the previous 12 months.

How is it amazing? Quackery like homeopathy thrives on the confirmation bias: there are any number of things which could have coincided with your cat's recovery, but which you would never dream of associating with the recovery. It is as a result of the association between homeopathy and curing that you picked out that factor; this confirmation bias leads people to disregard instances in which the treatment does not work.

uberalles · 08-08-2012 12:57am

A group of people gathered around a car crash.
Someone was pushing through .....

"Step back please, let me through, I'm a herbalist "

It amazing what some well placed parsley and thyme will do for compact fractures !

Homeopathy?

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