Homeopathy-Willing to "overdose"

[darkstar747]

I have been a customer of Whole Foods for years, and untill recently did not know they sold homeopathy in thier stores. I live near Portland and have E mailed my local news teams to do a story on homeopathy as a "consumer alert". I also stated I am willing to "overdose" on a sleeping aid. I am in hopes in the future our local news will reveal, test and perhaps use me as a test subject in the future. Any input will be greatly appreciated by the JREF as always. I most surely will keep you all updated as to the status of what I hope will make news in the near future. Whole Foods is a big name around here in the North West and educating the public to this placebo is my only goal. With or without myself, I will be in contact with our local news to do a story on what is truly being sold. Perhaps writing E mails to your local news folks (like KOIN), if you are in my area will help. Personally I think the topic deserves some light, if anything to make companies think twice about selling flim-flam.

Cheers

 

[MRC_Hans]

Before taking an "overdose", make sure it is a properly prepared homeopathic remedy. There is a lot of stuff out there that is labelled "homeopathic", because homeopahtic remedies are extempt from certain regulations, but which actually contain various active substances.

In conventional homeopathy, there is no such thing as a sleeping aid. Homeopahtic remedies are selected and prescribed based on an individual symptom profile, so the remedy prescribed for Joe's insomnia may not be the same as for Jack's insomnia.

The label should say something like "Bel 30C". The first name could be any of several thousand existing remedies, although 80% of the prescriptions end up using less than 30 different remedies, and the last part is the potency. You should avoid potencies lower than 12C and 24X (all the M potencies are fine), as these might hold trace amounts of active substance. Stay away from combination remedies, as they may contain Ed knows what, and they are not really homeopathy, anyway.

Hans

 

[Jon.]

Didja hear about the homoeopath who forgot to take his pills one morning?

He died of an overdose!

(Sorry, probably should have been in the "Humour" section but I couldn't resist!)

 

[Ed]

Didja hear about the homoeopath who forgot to take his pills one morning?

He died of an overdose!

(Sorry, probably should have been in the "Humour" section but I couldn't resist!)

Why?

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

It's too bad, too, because just that afternoon he was about to start marketing his homeopathic remedy for dehydration.

~~ Paul

 

[Ed]

It's too bad, too, because just that afternoon he was about to start marketing his homeopathic remedy for dehydration.

~~ Paul

Nahhhhhh the market dried up ages ago.