That's something I don't understand, how can homeopathic remedies even be sold? The manufacturer can't prove the health benefits they claim and the product don't contain the element on the bottle.
It's just complete nonsense.
It's just complete nonsense.
Of course, homeopathic "remedies" are uniquely adapted to our litigious society--since they can have no effects, they can have no side effects, and thus you'll never see ads from lawyers looking to sue over side effects of homeopathy.
Completely and totally incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
In medicine, a nocebo (Latin for "I shall harm") is a harmless substance that creates harmful effects in a patient who takes it.
Basically, you think "I'm taking medication, that could cause side effects," that thinking it and of itself can causes side effects!! It's like a reverse placebo.
Also see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2hO4_UEe-4 (watch this short video, it give a great rundown on the nocebo effect, including examples)
and people are thinking they are getting specific side effects....at least they are searching about them.
"The legal status of homeopathic remedies in the United States is unique. In 1938, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was sponsored by Senator Royal Copeland who also happened to be a homeopathic physician. The senator wrote wording into his bill that recognized all products listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States as drugs and made them subject to regulation by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The legislation passed, and as a result, homeopathic products are legally sold in food stores, pharmacies, and elsewhere as a unique category of drug.
Despite such widespread use, the FDA regulates homeopathic preparations much less stringently than conventional drugs. Homeopathic products are not required to prove effectiveness or safety. Some regulations do apply. For example, homeopathic products can only be sold without a prescription if they are specifically for self-limiting conditions such as the common cold. Products marketed for severe conditions such as cancer are prescription-only."
Source: http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-115...
That gray area has done a lot of damage to a lot of people.
Basically if you are hit by a blue car, they need a homeopathic traces of blue color to 'cure' you.
Usually they are sold as granules, containing some form of sugar... to capture the magical water :) So technically it's sugar+water that you ingest.
Icing on the cake, the dispenser http://goo.gl/xsT3IM would be vetted by Steve Jobs, cute squary bottle, press the cap to fill it with a dose, open, ingest, close. Genius ?
That's why it's been revoked. Because it might work.
If I remember correctly a single duck is raised every year, and due to the dilution, is enough to produce the millions of dose.
I am not sure what makes more sense, the nosode or the duck liver...
Episode (in Dutch / French) http://keuringsdienstvanwaarde.kro.nl/seizoenen/2011/aflever...
Above certain dilutions it goes beyond the Avogadro figure and there should be no molecules/proteins left of the original disease agent.
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>"Marshall says that cases in which trusting vulnerable consumers have believed the claims of homeopaths and "forgone real medicine" in place of "these overpriced sugar pills" are "too numerable to count" and "often with unnecessary and tragic consequences."
I knew someone who took homeopathic remedies instead of going to a doctor and she nearly died (saved by actual doctors). She still believes in homeopathic remedies....
Personally if you were to ask me about his death, i'd blame the cancer for killing him, not the 'science' he investigated in an effort to fix the problem.
But I don't hate cancer, it's a natural thing, but I do hate homeopathy because it's 100% man made quackery.
If one of my relatives died sooner because they had been let to believe to use this nonsense I definite blame the salesman of scamming my relative of money, trust and a longer life.
It is the same as the Christian church in the middle ages selling salvation for money to dying people. Despicable.
It goes beyond simply wishing he hadn't died, too. He managed to finagle a healthy liver transplant in the process, which might have gone to someone with a better chance of surviving with it longer.
OK, but then placebo shouldn't be allowed to make medicine-like claims.