# I want to throw up \[homeopathy\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744 "2007-02-26T17:55:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/21 "2007-02-26T19:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] People who think doctors are automatically doing the “best” or course of action are delusional. Come on! Do you imagine they’re all the same? They’re all equally well-read on every subject, every development? That must be why they all agree on everything. [/QUOTE] Of course some doctors are better than others. Why does that mean I shouldn’t go to the doctor when I’m seriously ill? Isn’t that what doctors are for, treating serious medical problems? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/22 "2007-02-26T19:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Wooosh! I think Hal is referring to water. [/QUOTE] Right whoosh, wrong poster. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/23 "2007-02-26T19:35:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t think anyone made that claim. It’s just that you stand a better chance with a doctor than with someone who mixes bullshit and water. > > But doctors can goof. A GF’s cousin was once experiencing extreme abdominal pain. Really bad, she was doubled over and could barely walk. Her friend took her to the ER of a really dodgy hospital. He condition baffled the best medical minds they could dig up from under a rock. They were stumped. But they figured it was pain, so treat it with pain killers. They put her on percoset. Her condition worsened. > > Anyone want to take a guess as to what was wrong with her? Preggers! Was she preggers? Make sure you say “preggers” when you answer, whether in the affirmative or negative. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/24 "2007-02-26T19:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Anyone want to take a guess as to what was wrong with her? [/QUOTE] Appendicitis? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/25 "2007-02-26T19:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] It’s that thing – if your tool is a hammer, then all you see are nails. [/QUOTE] If my tool is a hammer, can I apply it **directly to the forehead** of those snake-oil salesmen whose homeopathic headache “remedy” commercials instantly induce migraines? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/26 "2007-02-26T19:38:24Z")
If my tool is a hammer, can I apply it **directly to the forehead** of those snake-oil salesmen whose homeopathic headache “remedy” commercials instantly induce migraines? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/27 "2007-02-26T19:38:42Z")
(Oops. There was another page to this. Ignore it) ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/28 "2007-02-26T19:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Wooosh! I think Hal is referring to water. [/QUOTE] I get that, actually. However, the active ingredient in homeopathic remedies is really the bullshit. That’s how you get credulous dupes to pay money for it. The water is only a delivery vehicle for the bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/29 "2007-02-26T19:39:34Z")
Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/30 "2007-02-26T19:40:24Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] Really bad gas? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/31 "2007-02-26T19:41:57Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] I get that, actually. However, the active ingredient in homeopathic remedies is really the bullshit. That’s how you get credulous dupes to pay money for it. The water is only a delivery vehicle for the bullshit. [/QUOTE] Ah, I see your point. Mine was that water is the _only_ ingredient. But water with a great memory, mind you. I suppose it makes as good a placebo as anything, though. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/32 "2007-02-26T19:45:12Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] The website which so alarmed Mom and turned her away from physicians to the services of a quack, is one of those MEDICAL CARE KILLS AND DOCTORS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW sites, feeding gullible people cherry-picked, distorted and outright wrong info in order to feed their alternative agendas. [/QUOTE] I was responding to this. You’re saying moms should seek only advice from doctors. My point is that doctors are not all equally skilled at curing what ails you. Sometimes their cure, the “standard of care”, sucks. If the mother in the OP is adding homeopathic remedies to her toolkit, she might be doing exactly the right thing for her child. I also have several friends who told me that their kids’ asthma was relieved by seeing a chiropractor. It seems odd to me, but they’re telling me it worked. **Jackmaniik** ’s friend’s parents didn’t necessarily err by trying it, but they did err by not continuing to search for a solution that DID address the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/33 "2007-02-26T19:45:42Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Ah, I see your point. Mine was that water is the _only_ ingredient. But water with a great memory, mind you. [/QUOTE] Yours also had the advantage of being funny. And clever. Mine was just… bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/34 "2007-02-26T19:46:20Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] Sounds like opiate addiction/withdrawal syndrome to me. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/35 "2007-02-26T19:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] How about gallstones? Another physician gave me pain relievers and a pamphlet on depression as her solution to that problem. Two years (and much pain) later, I finally had the right diagnosis. And surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/36 "2007-02-26T19:46:55Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] Ulcer? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/37 "2007-02-26T19:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=Yamirskoonir] Really bad gas? [/QUOTE] You’re so close I’ll have to give it to you. It was extreme constipation. Percoset can cause your bowels to stop moving, so it’s exactly the wrong medication. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/38 "2007-02-26T19:49:44Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] Yours also had the advantage of being funny. And clever. Mine was just… bullshit. [/QUOTE] Thanks, but I can’t claim full credit. I had to visit a DHMO site for inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/39 "2007-02-26T19:50:59Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] Gunshot? ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744/40 "2007-02-26T19:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Not preggers, not appendicitis. But definitely something that percoset is **not** the cure for. [/QUOTE] Percoset overdose? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-throw-up-homeopathy/393744.md?page=3)