Homeopathic/Herbal Remedies

[silver gurl]

So what have you tried? What has worked? What has not worked?

Personally, I have tried a few but I am quitter when I don't see results.

Curious minds and all....

 

[rocket_surgery]

Know why you don't see results?

 

[Sean]

You know what we call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine.

Tim Minchin

 

[silver gurl]

You know what we call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine.

Tim Minchin

I agree. Anything that I have tried has been a failure.

But I am still curious...

 

[KingOrfeo]

http://nb9.stumbleupon.netdna-cdn.com/OyYlWtGwel0SoHooVgGowA

Title text: "Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it's spelled "echinacea", and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham."

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/alternative_literature.png

Title text: "I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with--and labeled similarly to--their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."

 

[KingOrfeo]

The picture WRT herbal supplements is more complicated:

Summary

Many herbal remedies have significant medical effects. Labeling may not correctly describe the contents of the medication. The preparations available are not well-regulated or well-studied. As such, they are often wasteful, or even toxic. When there is a measurable effect, it is often more modest than the available conventional medicines.[49] Many companies are doing large scale testing of botanicals to look for biologically active substances. Older remedies, and new ones, as discovered, should be subject to the same scrutiny as any other medication. There is no reason to believe that herbal remedies have any "natural" advantage over conventional ones. Randomized controlled trials can distinguish good medicines from bad, independent of the source.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I agree. Anything that I have tried has been a failure.

But I am still curious...

That's because you're paying for water. Any benefits that anyone might get from homeopathic medicine is from the placebo effect.

 

[silver gurl]

I was walking through the pharmacy the other day and I heard her speaking with a customer: "No one needs a multi-vitamin. Unless you have a proven deficiency or do not eat a balanced diet. It is a waste of money"

I believe this. This is a gazillion dollar industry.

 

[silver gurl]

That's because you're paying for water. Any benefits that anyone might get from homeopathic medicine is from the placebo effect.

Which is why they never have worked for me. A hot toddy does more for my cold than some of the stuff on the market.

 

[thør]

Homeopathic ER

 

[KUJACK]

So what have you tried? What has worked? What has not worked?

Personally, I have tried a few but I am quitter when I don't see results.

Curious minds and all....

homeopathic meds are some what of a curiosity. Take a known natural drug that causes certion side effects. Dilute this compound 10 times to 30 times (10X or 30X) or more.
Take a small dose of this compound. What you get id not the compound, but the ghost of the compoud, which mysterously stimuates the immune system to combat your ailment. Not very scientific to me.
Herbal meds are real and my have similar bad side effects as manufacted drugs, be careful.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I was walking through the pharmacy the other day and I heard her speaking with a customer: "No one needs a multi-vitamin. Unless you have a proven deficiency or do not eat a balanced diet. It is a waste of money"

I believe this. This is a gazillion dollar industry.

I wonder if a pharmacist can get fired for telling a customer not to buy something the store sells?

 

[silver gurl]

Homeopathic ER

Ha!

homeopathic meds are some what of a curiosity. Take a known natural drug that causes certion side effects. Dilute this compound 10 times to 30 times (10X or 30X) or more.
Take a small dose of this compound. What you get id not the compound, but the ghost of the compoud, which mysterously stimuates the immune system to combat your ailment. Not very scientific to me.
Herbal meds are real and my have similar bad side effects as manufacted drugs, be careful.

Oh, I know. I am not into it. But yes, some can down right kill you.

I wonder if a pharmacist can get fired for telling a customer not to buy something the store sells?

I don't know. We a blatantly honest in Canada. I'm sorry.

Well I will shut it for now and see what the Lit peeps say.

 

[KingOrfeo]

homeopathic meds are some what of a curiosity. Take a known natural drug that causes certion side effects. Dilute this compound 10 times to 30 times (10X or 30X) or more.
Take a small dose of this compound. What you get id not the compound, but the ghost of the compoud, which mysterously stimuates the immune system to combat your ailment. Not very scientific to me.

It had some popular appeal in the 19th-Century age of "heroic medicine," when doctors prescribed massive and dangerous quantities of drugs, apparently just because they felt they should be doing something, and if a little is good for you more must be better. Homeopathy holds that if anything is bad for you less is better -- that is, if a substance causes the same symptoms as a disease, a dilution of it will cure the disease. That works about as well as you might imagine, but homeopathic physicians' patients at least died only from the illness, not the remedy.

 

[rocket_surgery]

I wonder if a pharmacist can get fired for telling a customer not to buy something the store sells?

Would depend on how they say it. If they push them towards something more expensive then probably not but if they were to just blatantly say not to buy that because it's shit then yeah, they will probably be fired. They're employees of the store like anyone else.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

homeopathic meds are some what of a curiosity. Take a known natural drug that causes certion side effects. Dilute this compound 10 times to 30 times (10X or 30X) or more.
Take a small dose of this compound. What you get id not the compound, but the ghost of the compoud, which mysterously stimuates the immune system to combat your ailment. Not very scientific to me.
Herbal meds are real and my have similar bad side effects as manufacted drugs, be careful.

Here's a video of Richard Dawkins explaining homeopathic medicine.

 

[yossi]

I take local bee pollen to combat allergies. It's been effective.

 

[Saint Peter]

you put the lime
in the coconut

 

[Bookishleigh]

I use peppermint oil when I get a migraine. While it does not get rid of the migraine, I think it helps with some of the symptoms until my relief medication kicks in. And honestly, I am completely fine if it's a placebo effect and not really the peppermint oil that is helping. I also like the peppermint oil for when I'm a bit stuffy but not bad enough to take any cold medicine.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I use peppermint oil when I get a migraine. While it does not get rid of the migraine, I think it helps with some of the symptoms until my relief medication kicks in. And honestly, I am completely fine if it's a placebo effect and not really the peppermint oil that is helping. I also like the peppermint oil for when I'm a bit stuffy but not bad enough to take any cold medicine.

Do you drink it, sniff it, or what?

 

[Saint Peter]

Puts it on her Pillow Pants.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Homeopathy (Listeni/ˌhoʊmiˈɒpəθi/) or homoeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.[1] Homeopathy is a pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition;[2][3][4][5] large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, suggesting that any positive effects that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect and normal recovery from illness.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

*not the same as natural remedies, willow bark tea for headaches, pine needle tea for scurvy, aloe cactus for cuts. bee pollen sounds like a way to slowly build up an immunity as opposed to homeopathic. for a fever you get under blankets turn up heat and sweat it out*

*natural remedies for the most part are quite good, hence no need for vitamin pills, if taken smartly*

 

[rocket_surgery]

I use peppermint oil when I get a migraine. While it does not get rid of the migraine, I think it helps with some of the symptoms until my relief medication kicks in. And honestly, I am completely fine if it's a placebo effect and not really the peppermint oil that is helping. I also like the peppermint oil for when I'm a bit stuffy but not bad enough to take any cold medicine.

My wife swears by peppermint.

She also has that restless leg thing and swears up and down that a bar of soap under the fitted sheet in our bed keeps it from bothering her at night.
I did not believe this even a little bit until I saw it with my own eyes. I took it out once without telling her and she complained all the next day about how her legs kept her up that night. I put it back and she was fine.
I don't buy into most of this stuff but can't deny that one. Placebo effect or not, it worked.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Do you drink it, sniff it, or what?

Do you drink it, sniff it, or what?

I burn fetuses in it (according to Miss Ann).

I dilute it with either coconut oil or a vegetable oil and rub it on my temples and the back of my ears when I have a migraine. When I have a cold or allergies, I will rub it (diluted again) around the nasal passages. Some people say you can ingest oils, but I'm leery of that method.

And since the OP said homeopathic/herbal remedies, I consider essential oils to fall in the category of herbal remedies as most of them are derived from plants. I'm not one of those essential oils cure everything - I just will try anything to abate migraines and/or migraine pain.

 

[raindancer]

Magnesium and fish oil help with muscle pain. Apple cider vinegar cured acid reflux. Hemp oil helps neuropathy and muscles spasms. I don't do pain meds any longer so I try alternative medicine quite a bit.