Some thoughts... First things first, homeopathic remedies do help, but only if you're already mostly in tune in the first place. As a very crude metaphor, if

Some thoughts... First things first, homeopathic remedies do help, but only if you're already mostly in tune in the first place. As a very crude metaphor, if you car is a little out of whack an oil change or lube job might be the thing, but if you've been in a serious accident no amount of pouring oil on the car will get the dents out, you gotta go to the boddy shop. Most of us are living in such a way (junk food, junk lifestyles) that homeopathic remedies are no better than placebos. (I don't really want to get into it, but, uh, water carries liquid crystal "echoes" of the chemicals, these can be detected and categorized by a simple reproducible protocol involving dripping water onto a transparent panel illuminated by polarized light, something like that. A Japanese scientist figured it out, but I lost the reference and haven't been able to locate it again. Sorry. If you're already in pretty good health then your system has what you might call "higher gain" on incoming stimuli, including the phantoms of the biomolecules encoded in the structures of the water molecules, which is enough to "remind" your system of, uh, balancing influences, without requiring actual "doses" of chemicals. Just like how hearing a faint echo of a song you like from, say, a passing car might make you recall it and groove to it all over again.) - - - - Anyway, second, the placebo effect, whatever it is, is real and very potent. The craziest thing I've heard about was placebo knee surgery. (O_o) A lot of approved medicines are no better than placebos. - - - - Third, yes, almost all supplements and herbal remedies that you can get over the counter are B.S. "What you have there are the ingredients for very expensive urine." as Dr, Cooper told Penny. (In my family it was the Vitamin C. Got a cold? Chew these C tablets. Nothing actually to it, vitamin C does not cure colds. It does affect your Ph balance which can affect your viscosity of mucus, however, that's not the reason we took it as kids. We took it because our parent though it was a kind of medicine, which it is not.) - - - - Last but not least, selling snake oil is an old and venerable custom here in America at least, and people like buying and using nostrums and potions. The last time the FDA tried to crack down on this stuff the public pushed back (the snake-oil sellers whipped them up a bit, but the general sentiment was "you'll take my magic beans from my cold, dead hands!" y'know?)