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The point of homeopathy is to take your money for fooling you. And if placebo is likely to help won't real medicine help more?
by rimantas 15y ago
The point of homeopathy is to take your money for fooling you.
And if placebo is likely to help won't real medicine help more?
- Derbasti 15y agoThere are plenty of cases where there is no real medicine. In many cases, all they can do is administer painkillers. Take a bad joint, lower back pain, migraine. In a good percentage of these cases, placebo works really well. If you don't believe me, ask a specialist. Pain specialists (trained doctors, mind you) often prescribe homeopathy, biofeedback, acupuncturing and the like, simply because it works. Also, long time medication is rarely desirable. Treatment gets less effective, there can be addiction issues and not least of all, it's expensive. This is particularly important for chronical diseases. If placebo, in whatever form, helps some ten or twenty percent of people (and it does!), why not try it?