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As a hayfever sufferer, I found that the homeopathic tablets worked OK, so long as you were taking them regularly. However, one a day tablets from Lloyds chemists seem to work rather better, so it makes more sense to me to use them. However, sweeping statements about how something that has been around for a long, long time and worked for many people, my family included, doesn't really help anyone at all, does it? While forsaking modern medicine in favour of homeopathy would be, in my opinion, rather foolish, there is room for both.

i keep bees so, i get free honey.

Its great for andrew (dumberer) who suffers during the summer.

Dan

Originally posted by Rupert I'm not sure hayfever is all that receptive to mind games,

My understanding is that research is suggesting that even something as physical as the healing rate of a broken bone will vary with mental state...

Originally posted by Rupert As a hayfever sufferer, I found that the homeopathic tablets worked OK, so long as you were taking them regularly.  However, sweeping statements about how something that has been around for a long, long time and worked for many people, my family included, doesn't really help anyone at all, does it? While forsaking modern medicine in favour of homeopathy would be, in my opinion, rather foolish, there is room for both.

Really....wow, you expected a response and got one, well I never!

Forget anecdotal evidence, which is clouded by reversion to the norm, and tell me how Homeopathic remedies work when you have diluted any active ingredient out.  And I want proper science no bunkum will be tolerated!

Originally posted by tack'ho Originally posted by Rupert As a hayfever sufferer, I found that the homeopathic tablets worked OK, so long as you were taking them regularly.  However, sweeping statements about how something that has been around for a long, long time and worked for many people, my family included, doesn't really help anyone at all, does it? While forsaking modern medicine in favour of homeopathy would be, in my opinion, rather foolish, there is room for both. Really....wow, you expected a response and got one, well I never! Forget anecdotal evidence, which is clouded by reversion to the norm, and tell me how Homeopathic remedies work when you have diluted any active ingredient out.  And I want proper science no bunkum will be tolerated!

I couldn't give you proper science about how most "proper" medicine works, and I doubt many people on this forum can. I am pretty much in the "mainly nonsense" camp when it comes to homeopathy, but I find the psudo scientific "won't believe it unless you can prove it" attitude just as hard to swallow. If something has worked, it has worked, whether you can replicate it or not. If someone feels better because (in this case) a non "modern" medicine has worked to alliviate hayfever, why should that get people all uppity and saying "it can't have done"?

OK, here is another one - Arnica tablets and cream alliviate bruising. True or false? A useful one for sailing, this, if true...