Sceptics 'overdose' on homeopathic remedies!

[birdie1971]

Very amusing story about a mass 'overdoes' on homeopathic remedies -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8489019.stm


I loved the quote from the The Society of Homeopaths, “... [we do not] expect the protesters to suffer any adverse reactions from taking large quantities of the remedies”.

Really?!?

[mrmoonshine]

Lol@mass overdose of sugar pills.

[rov1200]

Diluted codswallop...homeopathic medincine should be banned under false advertising.

[mrmoonshine]

Rov but homeopathic medicine does cure................your wallet from having any money left in it that is.

[ummmm]

Isn't 'St Johns Wart' a homoeopathic/natural drug that is proven to work?

[mrmoonshine]

No st johns worts a herb ummmm, here read this for the low down,its basically highly diluted substances

http://www.homeopathy...y/what-is-homeopathy/

[ummmm]

I will read that at a later date when I'm extremely bored :-)

[mrmoonshine]

No problem why not put your nightgown on, have a hotwater bottle and a large cup of cocoa or horlicks whilst you're reading the article and make a night of it!

[ummmm]

I've had my night gear on all day :-)

I've given up drinking in the week so tonight I will read it while quaffing wine. The more I have the more interesting it may become.

[mrmoonshine]

Sounds very exciting! Oh and congrats on the giving up drinking during the week, it'll become more of a well earned treat now.

[ummmm]

Thank you...and it has :-)

[Hymie]

The Society of Homeopaths should have swapped the contents of their homeopathic remedies for something that would have given the overdoser’s a hallucinogenic trip – that would have been good fun to watch.

[mrmoonshine]

Lol, i second that hymie.

[birdie1971]

Thanks for all your comments.

I don't think that homeopathic treatments should be banned as they can act as a placebo to those who believe in superstitious, unscientific drivel.

The one thing that can be said in favour of homeopathic remedies is that no one has suffered adverse effects from using them. They are perfectly harmless, as long as they are not taken by sick people.

[mrmoonshine]

Thats so true birdie!

[Philtaz]

Homeopathy:

Giving false hope to the vulnerable and foolish only too ready to hand over their hard earned cash in the name of 'alternative medicine'.

I've lost count of the poor unfortunate's I've seen having tumours removed from various parts of the body on the operating table, often too late as a result of trying homeopathy first.

[birdie1971]

What I can't understand is how homeopaths sleep at night.

They must be aware that homeopathy is complete nonsense surely? And if they are unaware, then what on earth are these morons doing promoting and dispensing 'remedies' that can have no beneficial effect over and above the effect of a placebo?

Ummmm's post was interesting in that it highlighted a common misconception that many people have about herbal medicines and homeopathy. Many 'herbal' medicines are highly effective and have real, repeatable, provable, effects on the human body. However, just because herbal and homeopathy happen to begin with the same letter of the alphabet and sound somewhat similar does not mean they are one and same thing. To make that mistake could be potentially lethal.

Samuel Hahnemann was a well meaning fool. But a fool none the less.

[Booldawg]

Didnt the 'world of conventional medicene' announce a ground-breaking way of curing peanut allergies earlier this year? It involved feeding patients minute amounts of the peanut flower and stepping up the amounts as time progressed. Sounds like Homeopathy to me!

[ludwig]

Carrots do nothing for the eyesight. I ate a whole bag once and absolutely nothing happened. They shoud be banned.

[birdie1971]

Booldawg – “... feeding patients minute amounts of the peanut flower and stepping up the amounts... Sounds like Homeopathy to me!”

Unfortunately not I'm afraid.

If the peanuts had been ground up into the smallest amounts imaginable, then added to water which was then subsequently diluted to such an extent as to render the final solution completely and utterly devoid of peanuts than that would be Homeopathy!

[birdie1971]

Let's inject a bit of Homeopathic humour into this debate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0