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My wife's cousin owns a dairy farm in Germany and only uses homeopathic medicines on the cows. When I stifled a chuckle, he indignantly pointed out that not onl
by junto 12y ago
My wife's cousin owns a dairy farm in Germany and only uses homeopathic medicines on the cows. When I stifled a chuckle, he indignantly pointed out that not only does it appear to work for his cows, it isn't as if the cows can understand him, nor know that they are being treated.
However much I have my doubts about homeopathy, his cows seemed healthy and weren't being pumped full of antibiotics; hence I saw it as a good thing.
- RyanMcGreal 12y agoHomeopathy "works" because most illnesses are self-limiting. For example, homeopathics appear to treat the common cold successfully, with the caveat that they take about a week or two to take effect.
- zellyn 12y agoMy understanding is that for the common cold, that's how "real" medicine works too. :-)
- octagonal 12y agoThis is basically how homeopathy become popular in the first place. It worked better than what was currently available in regular medicine because it didn't work at all.