Homeopathy

[Sailor Steve]

Don't know. I'm always ready to dismiss things, but my dad thinks it helped with his Parkinson's. Did it? If it did, was it the placebo effect?

I don't know.

[tater]

Quackery.

Homeopathy is to Medicine

as

Astrology is to Astronomy.

[Platapus]

First of all, in order for this poll to be useful, one should define what homeopathy means and does not mean. There is a big difference between homeopathy and herbal medicine, but some confuse the terms.

[tater]

I'm referring to the "medicine" practiced by "homepaths."

It's quackery.

[antikristuseke]

Its to medicine as bat**** is to sanity

[gimpy117]

I Had to take a Holistic health class first Semester At Western Michigan University. It was all commons sense and pseudo-scientific crap. Homeopathy is a joke. Some of these medicines can do actual harm, and not getting treatment in hopes that the "alternative medicine" will work is even more dangerous. Sure yoga,acupuncture, a good diet, and massage can help the ill recover faster, or improve quality of life during treatment...but taking fish oil to cure an actual disease...total bunk

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

I Had to take a Holistic health class first Semester At Western Michigan University. It was all commons sense and pseudo-scientific crap. Homeopathy is a joke. Some of these medicines can do actual harm,

How'S that if there is almost no moleculae left in the "medicine" - it cannot work for bad or worse if it has no active agent!?

and not getting treatment in hopes that the "alternative medicine" will work is even more dangerous.

Yes indeed, that is the greatest risk I see as well.

Sure yoga,acupuncture, a good diet, and massage can help the ill recover faster, or improve quality of life during treatment...but taking fish oil to cure an actual disease...total bunk

Well, all that is no homeopathy, let's do not mix it all together. And codliver oil has high ammounts of vitamine A and D, omega-3-fatty acids, and thus could be of benefit for persons in need of these.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Platapus

First of all, in order for this poll to be useful, one should define what homeopathy means and does not mean. There is a big difference between homeopathy and herbal medicine, but some confuse the terms.

Homeopathy is not herbal medicine, not by name, and not by practice. I also never met anybody confusing the two. Even those who maybe did not know what homeopathy is, did not assume it was herbal medicine.

there are local variations of homeopathy, though, but all depend on the same set of basic assumptions, though they are called ifferent: Bachblüten in Germany, Caliornian Essences in America, and so on. That's why I mentioned "and variations".

Herbal essence uses cures that have actual chemically/physiologically more or less effective ingredients, while homeopathy from relatively early dilution-ratios on has none. It's two totally different things.

For a quick shot at what homeopathy is: German or English Wikipedia do a sufficient job on it.