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CVS widely sold a product for infants whose active ingredient was deadly nightshade? Am I reading this correctly?
by mortenjorck 10y ago
CVS widely sold a product for infants whose active ingredient was deadly nightshade? Am I reading this correctly?
- Overtonwindow 10y agoYes this is correct. The idea of homeopathy is that "like cures like" so poison cures poison, diluted disease kills disease. It's total BS and has no basis in science what so ever.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoThe idea does have some basis with vaccines. Though vaccines are a prevention and not a cure. It looks like both homeopathy and the vaccine were even introduced in the same year(1796), which was a spooky coincidence when I looked it up just now.
- dqv 10y agoVaccinations don't employ "water memory". There is a discernable, detectable pathogen that the immune system responds to. There is no "dilute this and say there is a physically impossible ratio of this chemical to water" in vaccinations.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoThese are all true facts which I agree with, and I haven't said anything to the contrary.
- fucking_tragedy 10y ago> The idea does have some basis with vaccines. Though vaccines are a prevention and not a cure. Not even close to the same thing.
- npunt 10y agoSadly, we've all been subconsciously conditioned to believe something like this from The Princess Bride scene where Wesley built up an immunity to Iocane powder. :/
- maxerickson 10y agoDrunks generally metabolize alcohol faster than teetotalers. A cutting edge treatment for nut allergies is to consume small amounts of nuts (carefully prepared, etc.). edit: I want to differentiate the nut thing from homeopathy. The idea there is to consume a very small and carefully measured portion of the nut, not some nonsense about training molecules.
- Coincoin 10y agoWhat you are describing is poison resistance where consuming a toxic substance makes your body more tolerant to its adverse effects. It makes total sense for nut allergy where the disease is the intolerance; if you become immune to the substance you are cured. Toothache is not an intolerance to deadly nightshades and no level of resistance to the poison will cure what is a totally unrelated issue; pain caused by a something slowly digging a hole through my gum.
- maxerickson 10y agoYes, I replied to a comment about poison resistance.
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- nathan_f77 10y ago> diluted disease kills disease Huh. Well, we do inject people with weakened diseases (vaccines). So in that example, "like" really does cure "like", by training our immune system. So, uhh, that part is kind of true. Only when it's not diluted so many times that it ends up being pure water.
- msbarnett 10y agowell, they sold a product that claimed to not have any active ingredient but instead be composed of magic water particles shaped by nightshade particles, I guess. I guess that their downfall in this case was that the manufacturer was a True Believer who actually bothered with the whole add poison to water then water it down until poison is gone, rather than, y'know, just packaging tap water.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoIf you literally sold tap water, it seems like you could be prosecuted for fraud. And maybe a lawsuit for emotional damage. The snake oil might be completely ineffective, but it better at least be oil from an actual snake.
- tscs37 10y agoIdunno, I never tried snake oil. Is it good to make pancakes?
- enraged_camel 10y ago>>If you literally sold tap water, it seems like you could be prosecuted for fraud. Wait, where do you think the vast majority of bottled waters come from? Actual springs?
- trav4225 10y agoBottled water doesn't imply spring water.
- Oletros 10y agoThe sad irony is that they were dangerous because they were not homeopathic preparations, they had active ingredients