Homeopathy 'could Be Blacklisted'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744858

I know that £4 million is peanuts in the total scale of health spending
but it does seem too much to spend on medicines that are so diluted, that no trace of the original molecules remain. I'm sure that placebos can be obtained cheaper than this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

[ummmm]

I do tend to think that if you want alternative treatment you should be willing to pay for it.

It's a hard call though as some people swear by it.

[mikey4444]

Ummm...some people think the earth is flat !

[ummmm]

Not anymore I would hope :-)

There probably was a time when physio was considered alternative.

[Sir Alec]

The Queen uses Homeopathy. If I reach 89 and can do as much as she does, I'll consider myself lucky!

[mikey4444]

SirAlec....the Queen Mum lived until she was 102 ! But my granny might still be alive as well, if Harley Street was put on alert every time she defrosted some fish fingers.

Ummmmm has it right ...if people want to take quack medicines, they should go to their local health food shop and use their own money, not have it on the NHS.

[Zacs-Master]

You can cook fish fingers straight from frozen Mikey.

[ummmm]

I think that may be his point, Zacs

[mikey4444]

Zacs...I was being ironic !

[RATTER15]

Homeopathy is nothing more than hocus pocus and the NHS should have nothing to do with it.

[ToraToraTora]

I cannot believe the NHS is spending money on this load of h0rse droppings! simply staggering.

[jim360]

£4 million is only a drop in the ocean of the NHS budget... but by homeopathic principles that means that it's a super-effective expense.

[Cloverjo]

It's not often I agree with TTT [:)] but I do here. What a waste of money and doctors etc.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know about that. as mentioned, the costs is peanuts compared to the total budget, and it's a placebo many have faith in. If it kick starts patients' minds to start healing processes it's a budget saver, and denying it could bring on relapses that the NHS would then have to deal with. Not to mention depression that what the patient thinks works for them is being denied them despite their paying in to run the NHS like others who get their treatment.

[Cloverjo]

Very good, jim360. Lol.

[tamborine]

Charlie will be annoyed. Good job he's in the antipodes with wifey in crocksville, hopefully

[piggynose]

heres my tuppence worth, arent drugs by the very name, drugs, which are designed to be addictive, therefore making the drug companies richer+richer. if they cured illnesses then there would be less revenue for them, not to mention side effects.

[lindapalmara]

Try telling that to Charlie boy! When he ascends the throne he'll have us all on this poison!!

[Playbill]

Homeopathy worked for me.

After twelve years of hospital and GP treatment for a chronic skin complaint with very little improvement, I was recommended to see a homeopath privately. Within two weeks of following his instructions I could see a change for the better, and after about two months 95% was healed.

I am not saying it will cure all ills, but what I paid for the treatment was far far less than what it must have cost for all the time and medication I received previously.

[gness]

Mikey.....I have paid for homeopathy twice.....

For an allergy.....it didn't work at all......

For cystitis.....it worked brilliantly...ended ten or so years of misery and antibiotics......x

[jno]

sometimes it works (there are plenty of people who swear by Rescue Remedy, for themselves and fractious children) and sometimes it doesn't - it's never done anything for me. Regular medicine has the same variable effect. I'm not sure bean counters should be allowed to blacklist things that have worked for people like gness.