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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Homeopathic Suicide Attempt Recap Video

Hide made an awesome follow-up video chronicling my homeopathy experiment. Enjoy!

3 comments:

  1. First....Homeopathic tablets/pills are not supposed to be taken with water. You should let them dissolve on their own in your mouth. Second-Sleeplessness is the tip of the iceberg with other underlying emotional/psychological problems. Instead of buying OTC homeopathic medications and wasting your time making u-tube videos, go to or consult a qualified homeopathic physician if you really are serious about your insomnia.

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  2. Oh yes, of course, because oral medication has to be taken in a specific oral way for it to be effective even when taken in large quantities..*sigh* Strange also how that is not what was suggested on the packaging.

    Secondly, be a man: Post under your real name, and not anonymously.

    And thirdly: Get a grip! Homeopathy does not work!

    Fourthly: We didn't get personal in the video, so don't get personal. That is just bad form.

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  3. To address your points:

    Homeopathic tablets/pills are not supposed to be taken with water. You should let them dissolve on their own in your mouth.

    As Heidi pointed out, why? There were no directions to this effect on the packaging or the insert. As a matter of fact I only took the first 14 pills with water. The remaining 34 I chewed and swallowed... and they tasted horrible. I wouldn't have wanted to suck on one until it dissolved... unless they were cherry flavoured. And they weren't.

    Sleeplessness is the tip of the iceberg with other underlying emotional/psychological problems.

    Maybe. Maybe not. I don't suffer from insomnia. I conducted this experiment over the course of a day in an attempt to see if the pills would make me sleepy at a time when I wouldn't ordinarily be sleeping, like ordinary sleeping pills would do. They didn't.

    If any sleeping pills can only make you sleepy when you would already be sleepy anyway, why would you need the pills?

    go to or consult a qualified homeopathic physician if you really are serious about your insomnia.

    I think that is a contradiction in terms. There are homeopaths (who practice homeopathy), and there are physicians (who practice medicine). If you encountered a person who did both, they would be violating both paradigms at the same time.

    I say that because the homeopathic paradigm (the four humours, 'like cures like' and infinitesimals) is diametrically opposed to the germ theory of disease - the cornerstone of modern medicine. If one practitioner was using both of these mutually exclusive paradigms, he would be intellectually dishonest.

    Would you trust such a person with your health?

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