How are homeopathic remedies made?
This clip follows the process of producing homeopathic remedies commercially. Taken from the documentary “Homeopathy” available at FirstScience.tv. Download in full from: firstscience.tv
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@kyral210
Like I said to the last guy … Go talk this stuff over with a homeopathic professional that knows the literature and experiments. I’m not even into that stuff. lol
Talk about fighting a strawman.
@Mike62075 One thing to remember, there are placebos, placebos and placebos. For example it has been demonstrated that more expensive placebos are more effective than cheap placebos, and saline solution placebos are more effective than H2O placebos. As a researcher, the #1 mantra you always live by is ‘correlation is not always causation’. Homoeopathy does not causate to recovery any greater than a sugar pill causates to recovery,
@kyral210
Even homeopathic practitioners will tell you that they don’t know how it works. BUT, believe it or not, there are scientific studies that have demonstrated it’s efficacy beyond the expected placebo effect. Would I prefer homeopathy over mainstream medicine at a hospital? No, I wouldn’t. However, it’s an option for those that want it.
I think they misslead the viewer by showing dark brown liquids being used. Even if you believe that homoeopathy works, you would add so much ‘pure water’ that there would be no colour (unless other colourants have been used, meaning there is more atoms of colourant than the supposed active ingredient)
“After being diluted to precise specifications”… above and beyond 10 to the power of 60… that’s equivalant to a grain of rice diluted in a bowl the size of the solar system a million times (calculated by a mathematician- see James Randi’s work). There are no atoms of the original substance they spent so much time preparing in the dilution- that’s why homeopathists can legally use things like arsenic in their magic water, because in the end it’s only water… how pathetic!
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B…
..BULLSHIT!
Homeopathy is not scientific. Its a load of B..B..BULLSHIT!!
Try curing cancer or aids with water mofos. Exactly.
Not only do they fail to mention the dilution, they also fail to mention the “succussion”, also known as banging the test-tube containing the water-with-nothing-in-it against the leather-bound bible.
*Sigh* …
I think we can say this video, by its failure to point out the dilution process, is a fraudulent representation of homeopathy.
The dilution process makes it weaker (not more powerful) way beyond the point where no active ingredient is left in the liquid.
To illustrate the absurdity of homeopathy, if you get some nasty liquid in your eye you flush it out with water – which dilutes and makes it weaker, not stronger. The whole principal of homeopathy is barking mad, and contrary to reality.
Yeah, they were definitely trying to skirt around it and not look crazy by using the phrase “after being diluted to precise specifications.”
Bunk
They say dilution, they do not show dilution, or mention the extremity of dilution.
1:54, actually
1:58
Extereme dilutions, not one in ten thousand, one in ten quintillion maybe, not seen here.
The water and alcohol dilute the substance if I am correct…
Homeopathic medicine is entirely dependent on extreme dilution, I saw none in this video.
Oooooh. Sciency! Ask your doctor if Placebo™ is right for you.
Nothing homeopathic about this…
I didn’t see anything homeopathic here.
It’s incredible how ppl buy this crap…
ah, pseudoscience!