Homeopathic Preparations
In preparation for my visit to the homeopath, I decided to look into what kinds of homeopathic products are out there. It’s pretty interesting.
When you look at these, keep in mind the basic tenet of homeopathy: The Law of Similars, or “like cures like”. If a substance gives a healthy person fever, it will actually cure a sick person suffering from fever if you dilute it in water, alcohol, or other liquid. The dilutions are usually one part active ingredient per 10^6 to 10^30 parts water.
So here we go. All three were found in the homeopathy sections of LifesVigor.com. I’m not even scratching the surface here.
Coffea Cruda -” a homeopathic remedy to help relieve insomnia, restlessness, and encourage restful sleep…Helps to reduce difficulty falling asleep.”
Ok, it’s coffee. Unroasted coffee. Yup. The 30X means that it’s one part coffee in 10^30 parts water, or one part coffee in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 parts water. First of all, does anyone honestly think this will do anything? Second, why would anyone spend money on this? It’s coffee and water!
Poison Oak/Poison Ivy Relief - “a safe and effective homeopathic remedy to ease the redness, itching and swelling associated with poison oak and poison ivy.”
So guess what this one’s made of! Poison mushroom, nuts, and poison ivy. Highly diluted of course.
Tabacum - “a homeopathic remedy for relieve from headache accompanied by nausea and dizziness, or vomiting.”
Yeah, it’s just tobacco. A very little bit of cigarettes apparently does the opposite of what a lot of cigarettes will do. Seriously, these things make fun of themselves! What do they need me for?
Stumble it!
February 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I don’t think you should go to the homeopath. I have two reasons:
1. you don’t want to.
2. even if there is some heath benifit, if there is a mind/body connection, you have have already influenced the resluts by believing so strongly that it’s bunk.
Doesn’t seem like it will help you in any event… but then again, if it does, then there might be something to is. I don’t know… still seem like it’s wasting your time.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
By the time you told me this, I had already gone.
But to address your reasons:
1. I really do want to go. Whether it works or not, it will be a learning experience. And since I’m not paying for it, I have nothing to lose but time. Plus, I really liked the cactus on his desk.
2. If a medicine is real, it works whether the patient believes it or not. It will work on comatose patients. The placebo effect doesn’t overcome actual medicine. So the only way homeopathy would not work on me is if it consists only of a placebo effect.
It’s not wasting my time, because it’s something I’m interested in. I would go on a ghost hunt or sleep in a haunted house even though I don’t believe in ghosts. The only person whose time might be wasted is the homeopath, which is why I made sure from the start that he knows I don’t believe in h-pathy.