What are the principles behind Homeopathy and does it work?
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Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?
What are the principles behind Homeopathy and does it work?
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(Old Spike)
it works on anything subjective like pain or discomfort, but only as long as you believe it works, just like any other placebo. basically it stops 40% of people complaining about stuff that's mostly in their head.
(Short Spike)
Ok, you can't really cure stupidity but you can control fraud. Why is this allowed to keep going and stupid people not protected? I don't know.
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
A good portion of real drugs work on the placebo effect alone. There so much ineffective drugs out there that you wouldn't believe and the only things going for them is the placebo effect.
(Short Spike)
Can you give me some examples please?
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
https://www.livescience.com/42430-placebo-effect-half-of-drug-efficacy.html
It's pretty amazing how much peoples mind sets has to do with getting well.
(Short Spike)
I am sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
You mentioned "There so much ineffective drugs out there that you wouldn't believe and the only things going for them is the placebo effect."
I was wondering if you could give me a few examples of drugs that are out there ( i don't mean homeopatic remedies of course) that don't work at all chemically but have, however, an effect as a placebo.
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
Sorry, what I meant to say is there are a lot of drugs out there that largely rely on the placebo effect. Not that the drugs wouldn't have any real chemical effect.
(Short Spike)
So do you mean drugs
that do their job chemically but not very well (let's say 30% effect) and rely on the placebo effect for the other 70%?
or
drugs that do their job chemically well (let's say 70%) and rely on the placebo effecto for that extra bit of 30%?
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
Something like that, but your assuming a drug has a 100% success rate. Simply put drugs that do poorly chemically get a bump from the placebo.