# Curious about Covid-19 and Homeopathy **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [August 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097 "2020-08-02T16:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/1 "2020-08-02T16:28:17Z")
Has there been any word on homeopathetic treatment when it comes to the current pandemic? ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/2 "2020-08-02T16:34:04Z")
Proponents of the hydroxychloroquine cocktail claim that Zinc compounds, like zinc gluconate, are essential in conjunction with the HCQ/antibiotic cocktail. I’ve found such zinc compounds in the homeopathic cold remedy section of the drugstore. Other than that, no clue. Edit: Oh, and LOL at the ‘homeopathetic’ phrasing. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/3 "2020-08-02T17:22:26Z")
I drink water, the most powerful homeopathic drug possible – it’s so potent, it doesn’t contain any medication!!! And, I haven’t gotten COVID-19, so there you go. It should be noted that I haven’t had sex with demons for a few years now, so I have that going for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/4 "2020-08-02T17:26:51Z")
Which is nice ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/5 "2020-08-02T17:34:03Z")
I said, hey, Lama, how about a little something for the, the, you know, for the effort? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/6 "2020-08-02T18:10:58Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I drink water, the most powerful homeopathic drug possible – it’s so potent, it doesn’t contain any medication!!! And, I haven’t gotten COVID-19, so there you go. > > It should be noted that I haven’t had sex with demons for a few years now, so I have that going for me, too. Yeah, but how close do you live to those 5G towers? And did you get the special USB dongle to protect you? ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/7 "2020-08-02T18:26:26Z")
“Proponents of the hydroxychloroquine cocktail claim that Zinc compounds, like zinc gluconate, are essential in conjunction with the HCQ/antibiotic cocktail. I’ve found such zinc compounds in the homeopathic cold remedy section of the drugstore.” Obvious question: how concentrated are the latter? Last I saw, hydroxychloroquine had been outed as having little or no effect. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/8 "2020-08-02T19:37:21Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I drink water, the most powerful homeopathic drug possible – it’s so potent, it doesn’t contain any medication!!! And, I haven’t gotten COVID-19, so there you go. I’m intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Good news about the demons too; that can’t be healthy on a regular basis. My thoughts: Stop for a moment to consider the volume of drugs manufactured and sold worldwide. All of which are taken, metabolized, excreted, then flushed into the water. Less those that are never taken and instead are just flushed or discarded. Where do all those drugs end up? In the water. But greatly diluted. That’s right! We thus conclude that ordinary tap water is at homeopathetic (great work there @Czarcasm) dilution for _every_ drug. Even if we don’t know which drugs cure COVID, if you take a homeopathetic dose of _all_ of them, something’s bound to work. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/9 "2020-08-02T19:40:51Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HMGIbOGu8q0/hqdefault.jpg "That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0) ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/10 "2020-08-02T20:33:33Z")
Luckily, I have my [aluminum foil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urglg3WimHA&t=74) to protect me. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/11 "2020-08-02T20:38:11Z")
Unless you water has been agitated by a horsehair stick, it has no potency as a medicine. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/12 "2020-08-02T20:40:27Z")
No! You people have not read your Hahnemann. It is not merely water that makes homeopathy. The agitation with the horsehair stick is _vital_. Otherwise, all you have is water. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/13 "2020-08-02T20:42:02Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Unless you water has been agitated by a horsehair stick, it has no potency as a medicine. I have been in a constant state of agitation since childhood. A horsehair stick ain’t been born that could out agitate me. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/14 "2020-08-02T20:44:46Z")
Yes, but it isn’t the agitation alone, nor the horsehair alone, but the conjunction of the two. It’s like having penicillin with no hypodermic, or a hypodermic with no penicillin-- not going to cure your syphilis. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/15 "2020-08-02T20:53:58Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > …not going to cure your syphilis. Cripes! I got syphilis? But I’ve been wearing a mask and washing my hands! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/16 "2020-08-02T21:01:07Z")
Where have you been wearing the mask? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/17 "2020-08-02T21:05:13Z")
Amsterdam. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/18 "2020-08-02T21:20:07Z")
> [@Wiki](#): > > While some “homeopathic” medicines are simply herbal supplements labeled as homeopathic, often to take advantage of regulatory loopholes, true homeopathic remedies are so greatly diluted they contain no active ingredients. The only measurable ingredients are the putative “inactive” ingredients, such as water,[[3]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-4) [alcohol](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alcohol),[[4]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-5) or sugar. Those homeopathic pills for sale at your local pharmacy? They’re [sugar pills](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sugar_pill), prepared by taking a sugar pill, letting a drop of the homeopathic preparation fall on it, and then letting it evaporate away. What you’re left with is the original sugar pill you’ve likely spent considerable money to obtain; and yet, this fraud is perfectly legal. Homeopathy does nothing but waste money. I guess it’s not unhealthy, unless you are convinced to not follow actual medical advice. > [@RitterSport](#): > > It should be noted that I haven’t had sex with demons for a few years now, so I have that going for me, too. How do you avoid that? These good-looking demons keep coming out of nowhere and flirt with me, and I’ve got no willpower… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/19 "2020-08-02T21:30:08Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > How do you avoid that? These good-looking demons keep coming out of nowhere and flirt with me, and I’ve got no willpower… Where do you go for the good-looking demons? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097/20 "2020-08-02T21:51:35Z")
We do have proven homeopathy preventative measures. Stay home. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-covid-19-and-homeopathy/917097.md?page=2)