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rohndawson
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Message 136 of 142 (480611)
09-04-2008 10:31 PM


To define Homeopathy - it is the art and science of healing the sick by using substances capable of using the same symptoms.
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Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Deleted spammish link at message bottom (link had nothing to do with homeopathy).

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Message 137 of 142 (480612)
09-04-2008 10:55 PM
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09-04-2008 10:31 PM


To define Homeopathy - it is the art and science of healing the sick by using substances capable of using the same symptoms.
You forgot the other entries:
quote:
2. Snake-oil
3. Bullshit
4. A way for immoral individuals to take advantage of the hopes of a gullible public and deprive them of all of their money

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Wounded King
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Message 138 of 142 (480620)
09-05-2008 3:46 AM
Reply to: Message 136 by rohndawson
09-04-2008 10:31 PM


To define Homeopathy - it is the art and science of healing the sick by using substances capable of using the same symptoms.
You forgot the other important aspect, that the substance should be highly diluted, sometimes to the point of being essentially non-existent.
After all otherwise you could be describing the principle behind some early forms of vaccination.
TTFN,
WK

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Message 139 of 142 (616105)
05-19-2011 2:36 PM


Homeopathy question
I was at our local co-op today. They have lots of great things; organic fruits and veggies, free range eggs, real milk; but they also cater to the alt med crowd.
I was looking at some homeopathic remedies and wondered something. If this snake oil worked, why would you need to buy a tincture more than once? The "active" ingrediants are already diluted 25k or more times. Why not just add more water when you are down to a drop or two? According to how the adherents claim homeopathy works, as long as you preform succusion the vital energy should be transferred. Homeopathic adherents claim the more diluted the stronger. So these companies should only have to sell one bottle of tincture to each family.
Can't wait to hear adherents explain why they have to buy the commercially prepared tinctures each time.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

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Message 140 of 142 (616109)
05-19-2011 2:59 PM
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05-19-2011 2:36 PM


Re: Homeopathy question
Theodoric writes:
I was at our local co-op today. They have lots of great things; organic fruits and veggies, free range eggs, real milk; but they also cater to the alt med crowd.
I was looking at some homeopathic remedies and wondered something. If this snake oil worked, why would you need to buy a tincture more than once? The "active" ingrediants are already diluted 25k or more times. Why not just add more water when you are down to a drop or two? According to how the adherents claim homeopathy works, as long as you preform succusion the vital energy should be transferred. Homeopathic adherents claim the more diluted the stronger. So these companies should only have to sell one bottle of tincture to each family.
Can't wait to hear adherents explain why they have to buy the commercially prepared tinctures each time.
Obviously, if you dilute the ingredients even more, you could overdose on the active ingredient that's no longer present! The caffeine molecule that's not likely to be present in your sleeping pill would be even less likely to be present, and you'd overdose on the absence of caffeine and go to sleep forever!
...also, they'd stop making money.

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fizz57102
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Message 141 of 142 (616178)
05-20-2011 6:19 AM
Reply to: Message 139 by Theodoric
05-19-2011 2:36 PM


Re: Homeopathy question
Homeopathic adherents claim the more diluted the stronger.
In a previous post, Buzsaw refers to taking two of his homeopathic pills. I wonder about the logic of that.
Wouldn't taking just one pill have a bigger effect? Half a pill? None at all?

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Message 142 of 142 (616180)
05-20-2011 6:35 AM
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05-20-2011 6:19 AM


Re: Homeopathy question
as fare as my understanding of homeopety goes, its that the water remembers the stuff that was in it so if you dilut the "poise nus" watter by such a factor that no "poisons" are in there and then drink it your body can get the information to defend itself from the nasty stuff from the information preserved in water. I think its pure bullocks but thats my understanding of it.

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