I heard the pharmaceuticals are crawling all over the Amazon forests looking for profit...

but the cough went away, so it worked, right?

Oh I'm sorry,

I will update my label:

Registered Homeopathic products should read as follows:
-Placebo 50%
-Gypsy tears 10%
-Bullshit 15%
-Moondust 15%
(Avoid consuming product on an empty stomach. Always ensure all dosages are taken after eating your 'bowl of rice')

...where Nelson's simply have to walk over to the kitchen tap

It sure reduces the probability that one day you'll be killed by a tiger. Therefore it is good for you.

Is anyone here actually disputing the efficacy of Herbalism ?

St Johns Wort, Garlic, Echinacea , clove oil, ginger, ginseng aspirin, quinine, chamomile etc etc ??

Nope

As with all the previous discussions regarding homeopathy -

• For herbalism/natural medicine, with testability and active ingredients - a resounding NO!

• For snakeoil homepathy, with no testability and no active ingredients - a resounding YES!

There's the big confusion- so many people equate homeopathy with herbal medicine. Someone reads legitimate results from proper lab testing of some herb, and then ends up buying some homeopathic water thinking they're getting the same thing.

Plants and stuff make up a huge base of modern Big Pharma products, they don't just invent drugs out of thin air .

Potentized homeopathic remedies of 'Plant extract A' or 'Plant A' do not share the same healing properties of the herbal extract in undiluted/unpotentized form.

They are not marketed or designed to be a herbal equivalent/substitute of the same.

Ginger is said to ease flatulence and indigestion. Potentised Ginger , as a figurative example, would, according to a Homeopath, treat the symptoms of overdosing on Ginger or the same symptoms present in another disease or malady.

Do you get that on prescription or over the counter?

Thanks. Some on here seem to dispute this...

available here OTC

On a related note: German police stops Lithuanian football professional with 162 kg of natural herbs coming from the Netherlands! One hundred sixty two! Kilogramm! He must have a station wagon...

While some herbs do work, some do not, the herbal medicine industry makes no effort to differentiate.

Hey, like, pass it round, man, y'know!

Impressive.

(eg. it would be a Hippy writing the label for such a product)

Don't you find that a bland and undifferentiating statement?

Maybe if the label you are buying is also big in homeopathy, it is right to be suspicious of their other products as well. But why put all herbal remedy suppliers in that basket?

I'm sorry, could you name a supplier who does make the effort to make sure that their products work and I'll go check it out.