Why is homeopathy so popular?

postbox said:
I've had many a bruise from sports inc bad sprained ankles. Arnica cream has always worked a treat for me and definitely helps speed up the healing process.
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The Halk said:
It hasn't helped at all. You're just a moron.
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Arnica cream has nothing to do with homeopathy. It's herbalism.

The reasons why arnica helps to heal bruises is the active compounds in the arnica.

Throughly scientific and one would have to be an idiot to not realise why it works. You might as well say that chewing on willow bark does nothing for pain. (willow bark has the active compounds within it that they synthesize and use in aspirin.

Again, not homeopathy but herbalism.


Edit, got my asprin and paracetamol mixed up te then!
 
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If a herbal remedy has value (some do, some don't) it get's incorporated into real medicine - as the above poster has pointed out.

Many different plants have different active substances in them, some of which are the core of modern medicines, the problem is the "hippy all medicines work" group try to latch onto the credit real herbal remedies have & try to apply that to magic hangs, crystal healing balls & what can only be described as "a bottle of water".
 
Hatter The Mad said:
They obviously have a degree of stupidity, and should have their licensed revoked. Where will they draw the line when they truly believe that water can work as well as medicine can?

If any of it worked, it'd be called medicine. But it isn't.
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So when people at the top of their field are selected to do research for the health service this somehow shows that they are stupid? I don't think so.
 
From this wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemies_of_Reason

Dawkins hypothesises that practitioners of alternative medicine spend longer time than regular doctors on their patients when attending to them. An interview with Professor Nicholas Humphrey suggests that this empathic attention may cause a placebo effect in patients, but this is not a substitute for conventional science-based medicine
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Oh, and pepole are stupid and gullible, of course.
 
shadesofgrey said:
Arnica cream has nothing to do with homeopathy. It's herbalism.

The reasons why arnica helps to heal bruises is the active compounds in the arnica.

Throughly scientific and one would have to be an idiot to not realise why it works. You might as well say that chewing on willow bark does nothing for pain. (willow bark has the active compounds within it that they synthesize and use in paracetamol).

Again, not homeopathy but herbalism.
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Huzah! that means I'm not a moron then ;) either way it HAS worked on bruises and I'm usually pretty skeptical about these things.
 
kwerk said:
I've noticed homeopathic medicine is becoming more and more popular in the UK. How come this homeopathic crap is so popular yet the same people laugh at faith healing, when it's essentially the same thing (useless superstition)? It's basically trendy, secular faith healing.
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I wouldn't be so confident that they would necessarily laugh at faith healing - lots of these people are pretty credulous in general. There is a 'natural health care' place next to my local doctor's office - they have a whole list of 'treatments' on offer tis quite plausible that people who go to the 'clinic' for homeopathy also give some of the other nonsense a go too.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
The fact that people may choose homeopathy over "proper" treatment causes harm. Steve Jobs proved that (ok, ok, I know it wasn't homeopathy but you get my point).
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Yup - allowing it to exist and masquerade as an 'alternative' in itself lends it some form of credibility - quacks set up clinics on the high street just like real GP clinics, some call themselves 'Dr' - its like cargo cult medicine - all the look and feel of a real health centre/GPs office but without any substance to it. That in itself is damaging, lending any credibility to it is damaging as people will continue to think 'ah there might be something in it' - even fairly smart people like Steve Jobs who delayed his cancer treatment:

"Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."
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While they might not go and sit round a fire while an African witch doctor does a crazy dance plenty of equally ridiculous 'alternative' medicines get practiced by guys wearing shirts nd ties, in what looks like a real doctor's office complete with certificates on the wall etc... makes it all seem like there might be something to it, else the govt wouldn't allow it surely nor the NHS fund it - yet, stupidly, they do.
 
kwerk said:
I've noticed homeopathic medicine is becoming more and more popular in the UK. How come this homeopathic crap is so popular yet the same people laugh at faith healing, when it's essentially the same thing (useless superstition)? It's basically trendy, secular faith healing.
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because you can smoke a double sheeted doobie packed with the finest Moroccan Black and when questioned you say 'its homoeopathic officer, for my dodgy arthritic knee caps init bruv'
 
wildman said:
because you can smoke a double sheeted doobie packed with the finest Moroccan Black and when questioned you say 'its homoeopathic officer, for my dodgy arthritic knee caps init bruv'
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That's herbal, not homeopathy.

To be homeopathy you would breathe into a test tube after taking a draw.
You would then pour 1% into another test tube and mix with the air.
1% would be poured out into another test tube and mixed with air.
1% would be poured out into another test tube and mixed with air.
1% would be poured out into another test tube and mixed with air.
1% would be poured out into another test tube and mixed with air.
And so on

and then that smoke would be lethal.
 
Arnie said:
I don't get why homeopathic 'medicine' producers go to the expense of making it 'properly' when they must know themselves that it's BS. Just go straight to selling 'em water and sugar pills tbh.
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I'm not sure I really believe that they actually do...

...and if they do then there it would seem to be quite a labour intensive process - might be some business potential in setting up an online homeopathy store simply just selling water and sugar pills with a label claiming whatever homeopathic remedy you want to claim - after all there is no means for anyone to test/prove that your remedies are any different to any other homeopathic remedies.


On another subject - given OCUK's google search ranking I wonder if well known homeopathy spam bot 'Dr' Nancy Malik will be along shortly to share some links in support of homeopathy.
 
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