Homeopathy and stuff and nonsense

[new_iconoclast]

These days it seems that it's become trendy to call any non-traditional medicine "homeopathic," including things like herbal teas and remedies, natural concentrates and oils, and so on. I suppose this is because of the number of people pushing homeopathy as an alternative to modern pharmaceutically-oriented medicine. I have no problem with herbal

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[9thmoon]

Hm.

I swear by Oscillo. It's fantastic stuff.

[new_iconoclast]

I'm a firm believer in the efficacy of the placebo effect, also. I'm glad it works for you.

[9thmoon]

Well, so am I, but it doesn't make me feel better, it just shortens up the length of the misery. I don't feel any effect from it at all. Can that still count as placebo?

[new_iconoclast]

It must be placebo, since it is completely impossible for the substance itself to have any effect whatsoever - reducing duration, minimizing symptoms, anything - other than that which you could obtain by chugging Evian. The commonly-available brand is a 200C dilution. That's 1 ml of duck liver to every (10 to the 197th power) liters of water - a 1 followed by 197 zeros.

OTOH, imagine how low the manufacturing overhead must be. The liver of one duck could supply the Oscillo industry for a considerable number of years.

[mahogany]

I'm a huge fan of homeopathy based on what it's done for my kids. I've heard that the placebo effect can extend to kids based on what their parents believe. The science of it is completely counterintuitive, it's almost like a vaccine except taken to an insane extreme. But hey it's kept my kids antibiotics free for their entire lives, and it saved my son from an inhaler. So I say W00T to homeopathy, or the placebo effect, or what ever it is that's helping us.