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Homeopathy: listen to experts - and ourselves

Homeopathy should not get any credibility from health services.

According to science, homeopathy does not and cannot work. That should be the end of the story. 

But things are not that simple. To write off homeopathy, it is necessary to call everyone who “believes” in it a fool – and that includes me. My family has been using homeopathy for 20 odd years. We and thousands of others would not persist if we did not see results.

Homeopathy is more than 200 years old: if it was all rubbish, surely it would have died out long ago?

I turn to homeopathy when it is the best option for a particular condition.

This is not irrational. I have lost count of the number of people who have told me that their prescribed medicine causes bad side effects and hasn’t cured the problem. Some even change to another pharmaceutical and get the same result.

What counts is what works. Much of medicine is ultimately subjective: the patient “feels” better. It is also a meeting of two kinds of information: what I know and what doctors know. My doctor backs me up. Sometimes I do it his way; mostly I do it mine. 

It makes sense to proceed from the least intrusive method of healing and save the radical until it is really needed. If a “sugar pill” does the trick, I don’t care if it is a placebo or not.

I don’t know whether it works for everyone or every condition. I see it as one in a range of options. Others may include a change of lifestyle or even of thought. Each adult should be able to pursue the healing of their choice. We should listen to experts but more importantly we should listen to ourselves.

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