Homoeopathy on the NHS

[modeller]

Should homoeopathic medicines be funded by the NHS ? Currently £4 million pounds are paid to four homoeophathy hospitals.

[Philtaz]

I can only surmise that all four are situated on Fantasy Island.........

[modeller]

Philtaz There are four islands : London, Glasgow , Bristol and Liverpool. There use to be one inTunbridge Wells but their NHS Trust decided it was a waste of money.

[BillyBB]

This explains it all perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVV3QQ3wjC8

[Playbill]

On the news today was a report that children with peanut allergy are to be given minute amounts of the nuts or oil to build up their resistance to the problem. This sounds similar to the way homoeopathy works.
Personally, after twenty+ years of seeking a cure from GPs and dermotologists, my psoriasis was almost gone within two weeks of starting a homoeopathic treatment.

[R1Geezer]

Any effects are placebo, Horizon did a double blind test a couple of years ago in order to win the James Randi $1m dollar challenge. In the process they proved it was complete b0llux. No the NHS should not fund mumbo jumbo.

[modeller]

As you know they claim even something diluted a million times is just as effective as the original dose. Yet when you buy a packet of Homoeopathic pills they often tell you to take 6 pills 3 times a day . Why 6 ? Why not just take one, it should be just as effective as 6 or 6 million if what they claim is true.

[bazwillrun]

Quakery at best, fraud at worst.

How do we know that the people who claim to have been cured were cured by homeopathy and not by natural healing and it just happened to be coincidental with their taking diluted water ?!

[Playbill]

birdie1971: I mentioned the report about peanuts because it was announced yesterday and seemed relevant. But my faith in homoeopathy remains since it worked for me. If it was simply a placebo and I was wishing the cure to happen, why did not the ointment, creams and lotions prescribed by numerous doctors over the years work? I was wishing for the same cure from them.