Homeopathic Drugstore

Jared L asked:


…. how can homeopathic remedies bought over the counter by a patient possibly work? What is holistic about that? Surely the unqualified patient has just guessed without getting the so-called tailored remedy?
“Homeopathy has never said it was holistic”

You’re kidding, right?

On virtually every single quack website this is exactly what is claimed. It’s for this reason that homeoquacks claim it can’t be clinically tested in the way every other medicine has to be.

I find the Daily Mail nasty (particularly Littlejohn) so I have not read it for a long time. Is it for or against quackery? I have no idea.

WakeupM8ies asked:


What is going on? People are dying in the hundreds in this country every year, because of a lack of funding for PROVEN treatments.
In 2000, the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology issued a report on complementary and alternative medicine.
It reported that “any therapy that makes specific claims for being able to treat specific conditions should have evidence of being able to do this above and beyond the placebo effect”.
According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy in particular has no such evidence.
They compared 110 trials that looked at the effects of homeopathy versus placebo with 110 trials of conventional medicines for the same medical disorders or diseases, including trials for treatment of asthma, allergies & muscular problems.
So just why is our government insisting on wasting resources on this and other quack so called medicines?

Queen*~Of~*Naughty asked:


My friend went to an alternative, homeopathic doctor, who swears you cant diagonse it in the morning. This was after she hooked her up to electrodes and shocked her. I smell a quack.

Sara asked:


Is there a big difference in ‘prescription’ of homeopathic ‘meds’ between animals and people? For instance, in an anxious person and an anxious dog or cat, would the same remedy be given?

The bigger question - if you’re a professional homeopath, are you automatically fit to treat people and animals? Or do you need separate education for each?
How about input from someone who won’t call me sweetie and isn’t self-labeled as being uneducated and a quack?
It’s just curiosity - I don’t have a sick pet.