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Homeopathy = just placebo ?

As i understand it, homeopathic remedies are so diluted that they contain NONE of the original ingredient - they are basically just water.

If this is true, how can homepathy be anything more than a placebo effect ?
 
  YodellingYogi on 2011-01-03
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
If you've ever used homeopathy on a child or animal, you can see that it's not a placebo effect.

You might look at Rustum Roy Ph.D's presentation here. It's the first one, and might shine some light on homeopathy from a scientific perspective.

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A Debate: Homeopathy -
Donald Marcus M.D., (Baylor)
IrisBell M.D., Ph.D., (University of Arizona)
Steven Novella M.D., (Yale)
Rustum Roy Ph.D., (Penn State)
Nadav Davidovitch M.D., Ph.D., (Columbia & Ben Gurion)
Andre Saine N.D. (Canadian Academy for Homeopathy)
An international forum to explore the facts around this controversial modality in an attempt to determine whether it has any place in medical care.

Participants to include Donald Marcus M.D. (Baylor), Iris Bell M.D., Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Rustum Roy Ph.D. (Penn State) and others.

http://mediasite.uchc.edu/Mediasite41/Viewer/?peid=407916ea-....
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
Thanks for your reply.

If you think it works, how do you exlpain it, given that it's just water?
 
YodellingYogi last decade
I've done more digging, and found that, in fact, it has been already demonstrated that HOMEOPATHY IS NO MORE EFFECTIVE THAN PLACEBO.

End of story. Thanks.
 
YodellingYogi last decade
If you have an open mind, I suggest to you a simple experiment. If nothing happens in this experiment, I will agree with you.

Buy Lycopodium 200c in pellets form. One dose is 2 pellets dissolved on the tongue.

Take a dose every 24 hours for 15 days. Carefully notice whatever you feel in the 5 days that follow those 15 days. Come back to the forum after you have completed this procedure.

We can discuss further after that.
 
sameervermani last decade
Is this a remedy for cynicism? :)
 
YodellingYogi last decade
No :)

You will see what it is for, once you do the experiment. All I ask for is an open mind, nothing more, nothing less.
 
sameervermani last decade
Sameer,
That is cruel.
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade

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