Homeopathy

[Hobbs]

If I could get a homeopath or someone aspiring to the feild to answer these questions that would be great and mean alot.

 

 

 

1. What does homeopathey entail? What does a homeopath do?

2. How does one become a homeopath? What is your particular education background, including: colleges, internships, lab practice, etc.

3. How does homeopathy help people. What about the practice contributes to the optimal holistic health of a person?

4. What is your perception of traditional vs. non-traditional medicine?

[iNow]

1. What does homeopathey entail?

Some substance is asserted to be related to a phenomenon, and they take a miniscule portion of that substance and dilute it in water as much as possible. The claim is that the more diluted the substance, the stronger the effect. So, if you have an allergy for cats, they might take a granule of cat dander and drop it into a 100 gallon tub of water. Then, they sell you an ounce of it and make pure profit.

 

An interesting story... One day, there was a cargo freighter traveling across the ocean with a single box of homeopathic medicine. The captain of the ship suffered from migraine headaches, and a lady at his last port suggested he try her homeopathic remedy. He was willing to give a shot, as the migraines had become unbearable. During a voyage from the Cape of Good hope to the Gulf of Mexico, he went to the bow of his ship to take one of his homeopathic remedies, but accidentally dropped one into the ocean below. Within hours, every animal in the sea overdosed on migraine medication and died.

 

 

What does a homeopath do?

They lie to people, or attempt to share their delusion like a contagion.

 

 

2. How does one become a homeopath?

It starts with being really good at convincing people that ludicrous unsupported nonsense is true, and then you cease caring about being a moral ethical human being and start taking money from people by selling them a product which is based on magical wish thinking.

 

 

What is your particular education background, including: colleges, internships, lab practice, etc.

Generally, if you want to be a good homeopath, used car sales is a good place to begin, and so too is religion. You tend to be even more successful and get extra points if you were ever a pastor or minister to a large congregation.

 

 

3. How does homeopathy help people.

It doesn't. Any effect is better explained by placebo.

 

 

What about the practice contributes to the optimal holistic health of a person?

Generally, it just makes them more hydrated. That's about all.

 

 

4. What is your perception of traditional vs. non-traditional medicine?

Some non-traditional medicines are quite helpful, but most is just garbage preying on people who are too ill-informed to know better. You should check this out when you have some time (this is the first part of six, the other five should be viewed, too):

[StringJunky]

Here's a UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee report relating to Homeopathy if you think iNow is being too harsh... it's effect is no better than a placebo.:

 

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/45/4504.htm#a7

 

"... We conclude that the principle of like-cures-like is theoretically weak. It fails to provide a credible physiological mode of action for homeopathic products. We note that this is the settled view of medical science.[57]"

 

" We consider the notion that ultra-dilutions can maintain an imprint of substances previously dissolved in them to be scientifically implausible."

 

"Dr Ben Goldacre, a medical doctor and journalist, also disagreed:

 

There have now been around 200 trials of homeopathy against placebo sugar pills and, taken collectively, they show that there is no evidence that homeopathy pills are any better than a placebo. […] it is not worth doing any more placebo controlled trials because you would be throwing good money after bad and you would have to have a huge number of very strongly positive trials to outweigh all of the negative ones.[100]"

Edited October 31, 2011 by StringJunky