WAAAAY OT: Herbal "medicine" - your experience?

dhope

elbowloh wrote:

2) second is that "water has memory". Whatever ingredient is used, they dilute with water. However, the claim is that the more its diluted, the more potent it gets.

Hmm, I have a new idea...

HomEPOpathy

Performance enhancing, completely undetectable by all tests. Boom. Where's Astana's email address?

Kieran_Burns

elbowloh wrote:

Homeopathy is the one that gets me, with some claiming its based on ancient herbal remedies.

It's not.

It was invented in the 18th century and is based on 2 ridiculous premises:

1) that "like cures like". So if you suffer from massive headaches, then giving you something else that also gives you a massive headache will cure you.

2) second is that "water has memory". Whatever ingredient is used, they dilute with water. However, the claim is that the more its diluted, the more potent it gets. This, of course, is nonsense. A lot of the solutions used are diluted to such an extent that statistically there is often not a single molecule of the "active ingredient" left in a dose. Proponents get around this by suggesting that water has memory of what that ingredient was. This water is clever, because it obviously has to forget all the other molecules that have previously been in the water, like excrement and urine.

Otherwise known as taking the p*ss....