Homoeopathic contraception?

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About a week ago, another member asked me by PM if homoeopathy claimed to be able to influence the probability of conception - specifically, to be able to provide effective contraception.

I had a few thoughts about this, which I might favour you with later on, but basically I think it's a question for the homoeopaths. So, I advised waiting until Barb and Sarah or other trained homoeopaths were around before posting the question.

They're about at the moment. So, apologies to the person who thought of this first (I've cleared out my PM box), but, can homoeopathy prevent conception?

Rolfe.
 
If the answer is that pregnancy is a normal healthy condition, then the obvious reply to that is "can homoeopathy heal sterility?"
 
pgwenthold said:
Sure. It works especially well when you combine it with the rhythm method.
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Would homeopathic sex involve any physical contact?

I wanted to say something cruder but I thought better of it.
 
I think it can. Some time ago, as an experiment, I took a homeopathic preparation. Nothing else happened, but sure enough, my wife did not get pregnant. Also, a little later, in a similar experiment, Rolfe for some time took a homeopathic preparation, and as far as I'm informed she did not get pregnant. So, according to the usual homeopathic standard, I think we can take this as a sceintific proof.

Hans
 
Rolfe said:

They're about at the moment. So, apologies to the person who thought of this first (I've cleared out my PM box), but, can homoeopathy prevent conception?
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It does in my household. I stay up too late baiting homeopaths on the internet and Mrs Monkey makes her nest up in the branches and goes to sleep.
 
I'm trying to imagine what one billionth of a condom looks like.

And where one might put it.
 
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Badly Shaved Monkey said:
It does in my household. I stay up too late baiting homeopaths on the internet and Mrs Monkey makes her nest up in the branches and goes to sleep.
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Funnily enough, the same is true in the Penguin aviary
 
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Benguin said:
Funnily enough, the same is true in the Penguin aviary
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Just need one more and we have a series of cases we can publish.
 
Soapy Sam said:
I'm trying to imagine what one billionth of a condom looks like.

And where one might put it.
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Strictly speaking I believe that when looking for a cure we should be looking for something that causes the same effects as the disease of getting pregnant. i.e. sickness and being overweight.

Drinking massive amounts of beer gets you overweight and sick.

So now we just need to dilute it down to say a can of shandy and bingo, I think you will find it as effective as any other homeopathic treatment.
 
I'm still hoping we might get the homoeopaths' opinions on this.

It reminds me of a thread on H'pathy (probably pruned because of excessive sceptic input, I shouldn't wonder) where the question was, could a homoeopathic remedy induce a miscarriage.

The homoeopaths first declared that no pregnant woman would ever be allowed to take part in a proving. For various reasons, all of which sounded a bit spurious. Then, no, there was no record of anyone involved in a proving having become pregnant during the proving. And even if they ever had, there was positively no evidence that anyone had ever miscarried during a proving.

This was all designed to refute the accusation that homoeopathy was potentially dangerous, because miscarriage might be a proving effect, and might indeed be an unrecognised danger to anyone involved in a proving.

However, despite all this negative proving data, of course homoeopathy could definitely prevent a miscarriage! No doubt about it at all! Why, someone had even had a patient who had had a miscarriage in the past, and she consulted her homoeopath during the second pregnancy, was given the correct remedy, and did not miscarry. Now what more proof do you need? Exactly how the remedy was chosen, without a proving of miscarriage, I couldn't figure. Something about all these homoeopaths drawing on lifetimes of experience or something....

(And is the thread where the Indian homoeopath described a miscarrying woman coming to the homoeopathic hospital still there? He describes the homoeopaths consulting together and being certain they'd got the right remedy and giving it to the woman. Unfortunately the patient then went to her actual gynaecologist, who treated her and told her never to go within a hundred miles of these woo-woos ever again - or words to that effect - so the case was lost to follow-up.)

So, homoeopathy cannot cause a miscarriage, but it can prevent one. What price similia similibus there?

And actual contraception? Well, one relevant factoid is that in an earlier discussion about the lunacies of provings, I was informed that one remedy had in its repertoire "excessive ability to become pregnant". Exactly how this was determined, how many individuals were involved or even the identity of the remedy I don't know. But obviously, this would be the perfect contraceptive!

So long as the magic didn't get the wrong end of the stick and decide you were trying to prove the remedy, I suppose.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
About a week ago, another member asked me by PM if homoeopathy claimed to be able to influence the probability of conception - specifically, to be able to provide effective contraception.

I had a few thoughts about this, which I might favour you with later on, but basically I think it's a question for the homoeopaths. So, I advised waiting until Barb and Sarah or other trained homoeopaths were around before posting the question.

They're about at the moment. So, apologies to the person who thought of this first (I've cleared out my PM box), but, can homoeopathy prevent conception?

Rolfe.
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Rolfe,

But of course it can! First, we try to find something that creates the same symptoms as conception. After eliminating all other possibilities, including a futilely long search for incubi, we find only sperm causes the same symptoms. So, now the process is very simple:

1. Gather sperm.
2. Add to a volume of water.
3. Succuss
4. Dilute 1:10
5. Succuss
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to 30C dilution
7. Place a small drop... uh... wherever...

I'm sure we'll have no problems enlisting volunteers for step #1. They may even return for step #7, depending on how we define "wherever."
 
Badly Shaved Monkey said:
Just be careful not to succuss it too much, you never know what might happen.

http://www.hominf.org/rubber/rubover.htm


It's not just the link that's funny, look at its URL: rubover?? rub over what?
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I've got a friend with a very bizarre latex fetish ... what would this remedy do to him? Presumably slipping it into his coffee would be a kind of homeopathic viagra ....

I dread to think what will happen if someone comes up with a homeopathic WW2 gas mask remedy for me to try on him.
 
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BillHoyt said:
.... we find only sperm causes the same symptoms.
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Sorry. Not homoeopathy. Isopathy. It'll never work. :D

Rolfe.
 
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Rolfe said:
Sorry. Not homoeopathy. Isopathy. It'll never work. :D

Rolfe.
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You've just sorely disappointed every young male anxious to do his civic duty on this forum.
 
BillHoyt said:
You've just sorely disappointed every young male anxious to do his civic duty on this forum.
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I'm sure if we think hard enough we can find other civic duties for these eager young men to perform.
 
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