Homeopathic medicine is placebo. Do you agree?
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Almost all double-blind studies of homeopathic treatments have indicated such, yes.
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This is a very good question. \n\nThe short answer is, the placebo effect is caused by people believing that a certain treatment will make them better, and this belief itself causing them to get better. The nocebo effect is similar, but slightly different. In the nocebo effect, people who believe they will get ill, will tend to get ill. \n\nBoth of these are obviously related to the Pygamillion effect. \n\nLately the placebo effect has been called into question by careful studies.
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Why would you like to know something about something so hopelessly quack?  Homeopathic doctors are not real doctors, so there is no true regulation over their exams and the marks required.  The training among them varies grossly.  There is no set standard, and the board is horrendous.  The practioners are doctors who for various reasons have turned to homeopathy, passing the written exam and then an oral exam.  Plenty of them have revoked or lapsed liscences as real doctors, M.D.s.  Many MDs and the Natonal Council Against Health Fraud believes homeopathy should be regulated under the same standards as conventional medicine.  Homeopathy would not stand up if forced to exist under the same scrutiny that other medicines do under the FDA.\n\n"The 1995 retail sales of homeopathic medicines in the United States were estimated at $201 million and growing at a rate of 20 percent a year, according to the American Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Association. The number of homeopathic practitioners in the United States has increased from fewer than 200 in the 1970s to approximately 3,000 in 1996. [Note by Dr. Barrett: I doubt that this figure is accurate. The number of medical and osteopathic physicians practicing homeopathy is unknown but is probably only a few hundred. A 1998 survey of chiropractors found that 53% of those who responded said that they prescribed homeopathic products to patients. If that figure is representative, about 20,000 were doing this.]\n\nWhen looking for a homeopathic practitioner, it's important to find someone who is licensed, according to the National Center for Homeopathy. Each state has its own licensing requirements. "Whether that person is a medical doctor or a physician's assistant or a naturopathic physician, I feel that anyone who's treating people who are sick needs to have medical training," says Jacobs. [Note by Dr. Barrett: Since homeopathic products don't work, going to a homeopathic practitioner makes very little sense.]"
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A placebo?  Just a guess.
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The answer to this depends on who you ask.  In general, homeopathic remedies are targeted at other things than the illness itself, more towards healing the body as a whole, including the spirit.  This is a fancy way of saying that if your mind wants you to be healthy, you are much more likely to get healthy -- the human body has amazing powers of regeneration and recovery, but most people ruin these through self-abusive behaviors.
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If by scope, you mean what types of diseases can homeopathic medicine treat, it has been proven effective for the vast majority of diseases which affect the body, including skin diseases, arthritis, diabetes, and others. Homeopathy is also useful for those diseases which come up suddenly and do not last for a long time, for example, fever, cold, loose motions, stomach ache, vomiting, etc.
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Homeopathy:-\nYou can be treated and cured by Homeopathic Medicine according to what you feel, Your detailed individual specific symptoms will decide the correct remedy for your disorder please post your exact details for a correct and appropriate answer which will truly help you and Homeopathic medicines are quite inexpensive and totally free of complications and side effects. Homeopathy treats the person not the disease that's why your symptoms are required to find the exact remedy for your troubles !\nTake Care and God Bless You !
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Well if you can send me details in her own words preferably I can cure her without any side effects with Homeopathic remedies !Please be specific and detail leaving nothing out what and how she feels in exactly the words she feels it !\nAnd By Cure I Mean CURE 100% !\nPlease feel free to email me!\nTake Care & God Bless You !
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The only homeopathic way I know of for a child to get vaccinated is to actually get the disease, since there is no way to synthesize the microbes. The only thing homeopathic medicine could do, I think, is to make the immune system stronger and more responsive, but not offer the same protections as anti-bodies.
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Homeopathy :-\nWhich one is it right or left and what are the accompanying symptoms please explain in your own words what and how you feel and it can be possibly cured without surgery or complications with homeopathic remedies ! post your details please for a correct and appropriate answer !\nTake care and God Bless  !
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That depends on several factors:\n1. The placebo effect (your thoughts, emotions and beliefs)\n2. Nutrition\nIt basically breaks down to this.. the human body is a SELF healing mechanism, when respected. Focus on the fact that you're ALREADY healed and healthy, and it will happen that much quicker. Remove the artificial sweeteners, trans fats, pesticides, lifeless foods, harmful, synthetic, processed, chemical "foods", and replace them with nutrient rich live organic whole foods (fruits, veggies, nuts, water, etc) and the body will do some amazingly miraculous things.
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seriously, i believe if you believe it Will work, it will work. for example they give people who volunteer to be test subjects two different things, one group is the control and they get placebo or something while the other group gets the actual drugs. meanwhile, the doctor doesn't tell the patients who has what until the procedure is over, and a lot of people who didn't have the actual experimental drug or what have you would swear they had. just because they believed they had the actual drug, they got better. it's seriously mind over matter, because there would be no experiment if the control group got the placebo and they knew it. it's all a mind game. if you think you are going to get better a lot of time you do!
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Well what you have described is totally treatable and curable in Homeopathy .\nPlease send me your details and i can tell you your remedy which will set all of this right with no side effects and complications !\nTake care and God Bless !\nI am a Homeopath !
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A placebo is a kind of a substitute that doesn't really do anything. Medicine is tested by giving some people a placebo, and some people actual medicine just to see if they start feeling better because they think they should, or if the medicine is really working.
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I am a homeopath, and I would have any patient of mine do the allopathic treatment.  I would treat the patient as well, but emphasize that they must complete their course of antibiotics as prescribed, even though it's quite a long one.
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The Answer to your question is :-\nHOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT !\nThe sooner the better !\nSomeday you will thank me for this advise !\nTake Care and God Bless you\nFeel free to email me if you want a Homeopathic solution to your problem.
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No. While researchers don't discount the placebo effect, evidence indicates that acupuncture is effective in treating certain conditions, particularly postoperative and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and the pain associated with dental surgery.