No, I wanted to point out vaguely herbal remedies masquerading as homeopathic.
If some things labeled as homeopathic actually aren’t as in they actually contain ingredients that have actual impacts it could give false credit to the whole genre, right?
Memory of water bullshit - no argument there from me. Some chemicals can be very dilute, but still present, and can still aid or harm. Fentanyl is a great current example, or the crazy tiny amount of peanut it takes to hurt someone highly allergic etc.
Those? They can say homeopathic on the label but if they contain enough of anything to work or harm medicinally then they are lying.
So you have products labeled as homeopathic that might work or hurt people, and then placebo stuff.
If I take 1 grain of fentanyl powder, and sell it diluted in an entire liter of water, it might sound like homeopathy, I might label it as such, but it isn’t because there’s enough powerful chemical present to have consequences if consumed.
Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes: on average, this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
No, I wanted to point out vaguely herbal remedies masquerading as homeopathic.
If some things labeled as homeopathic actually aren’t as in they actually contain ingredients that have actual impacts it could give false credit to the whole genre, right?
Memory of water bullshit - no argument there from me. Some chemicals can be very dilute, but still present, and can still aid or harm. Fentanyl is a great current example, or the crazy tiny amount of peanut it takes to hurt someone highly allergic etc.
Those? They can say homeopathic on the label but if they contain enough of anything to work or harm medicinally then they are lying.
So you have products labeled as homeopathic that might work or hurt people, and then placebo stuff.
If I take 1 grain of fentanyl powder, and sell it diluted in an entire liter of water, it might sound like homeopathy, I might label it as such, but it isn’t because there’s enough powerful chemical present to have consequences if consumed.
The standard dilution is 1:1060. Wikipedia helpfully did the maths: