Homeopathy

[barry luxton]

Baz try holding your Beer in the other hand for a couple of weeks

 

 

 

Or holding something else or do you think too much of something is not good for yer.

 

I was crossing me fingers that you haven't invited me to a beach somewhere at the mo, as you would have to cast out for me. I'm ok on a boat though.

Edited December 2, 2007 by barry luxton

[Steve Walker]

Whatever treatment you're trying, if the condition resolves itself while you're having that treatment, the evidence of your own one-man randomised trial tells you that it works (which is why some people swear by certain treatments when they would have got better anyway).

 

Which is why viral infections that eventually go away on their own are the most likely to have a collection of folk remedies; warts being the prime example.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

A little bit of what you fancy does you good.

 

The psychological good does count for a lot especially when recovering from an operation, I was told by my doctors not to go over board with my diet i.e. cutting out cholesterol foods.

 

A woman told me about her father who had a large operation on his stomach to remove a cancer when he was 77yrs of age, he left hospital with maybe six months to live so he said to hell with it carried on smoking and having a drink, sod the tablets on the basis of if I am going to die I will do it happily.

 

Ten years later he walked back into Prince Phillip Hospital to visit a friend and one of the nurses recognized him and could not believe it. She told him when he left we did not expect to see you again. He died when he was 89yrs.

 

I am not advocating smoking but his daughter who was talking to me was convinced that what kept him alive was his attitude and doing what he wanted rather than what people said was good for him. And one thing he loved was a herbal tea which he drank everyday and called his lifes blood.

 

Mind over matter call it what you want it worked for him, the doctors had sent him home to die.

[Guest Brumagem Phil]

I'm still not sure what your point is on this.

Do you actually believe that there is some tangable physical benefit to using homeopathy that isn't entirely reliant on a combination of the placebo effect and psychotherapy ?

or

Do you simply have a beef with the NHS and it's current funding and organisational structure ?

 

Honestly Ken, I don't know if homeopathy works or not (it didn't for me) but all i'm saying is i'm open minded enough not to just dismiss it out of hand because it seems an odd 'science'. Plenty we don't understand yet about ourselves and how we work etc.

 

As for the last bit..........well yeah, don't we all!

[corydoras]

Good news, it seems like the PCTs are going to cut funds from homeopathy in favour of evidence based medicine.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7215470.stm

 

After scandals like this one it is about time.

[Ken L]

Back in the news.

 

"£4bn annual budget on homeopathic medicines" FFS !

[chesters1]

god says its ok to use it.

its like this sudden appearance of Chinese medicine everywhere ,if it were that good why are there sick Chinese people

i have nothing against a placebo but generally nothing cost err nothing

Edited January 30, 2010 by chesters1

[corydoras]

Back in the news.

"£4bn annual budget on homeopathic medicines" FFS !

Your being to harsh Ken, homeopathy just needs some more research, preferably without all tht Scientific Method mumbo jumbo and you'll be convinced it works just fine.

[Steve Walker]

Chief executive Paula Ross said: "This is an ill-advised publicity stunt in very poor taste, which does nothing to advance the scientific debate about how homeopathy actually works.

 

I can see at least two things wrong with that

[GlennB]

I always wondered (i) ...... if I were a supplier of homeopathic pills to (say) Boots the Chemist, and they thought I was passing off blank pills as the real thing, how would they ever prove their case?

 

I always wondered (ii) ...... if you forget to take your homeopathic remedy, does it count as an overdose?