My reply is perfectly fine pertaining to homeopathy. Feel free to read up on that topic in that handy link to the Wiki article on it (thanks for tending to the garden, voltaire!)
Homeopathic liquids generally contain water and contaminants. Same as most other water.
Homeopathic solids generally contain whatever inert materials they can get away with selling to the public sans labelling info.
Homeopathy is based on pseudoscience. Period. Their claims that water has a ‘memory’ of substances that used to be in it is bogus.
First, nobody said tha all natural options are fake. We do say that homeopathic remedies are fake. There’s a huge difference between the two.
There are plenty of natural medicines that work. For example, I have acid reflux, and one of the treatments is licorice. It works! Of course, anyone who takes a lot of licorice has to take de-glicerizinated licorice (DGL) to avoid harmful side effects. I’m sure there are plenty of other effective natural medicines.
“Homeopathic” doesn’t mean “natural”. I suggest you check out the wikipedia article. But put very simply, “classic” homeopathic theory rests on these two precepts:
To treat a disease, find something that causes the same symptom and use that as medicine. (This contrasts with “allopathic”, where we find something that reduces the symptoms.)
Once you’ve introduced the remedy to the solvent (or whatever), the more you dilute it, the better it works. (You have to dilute it using special methods.)
The most expensive and allegedly best medicines are those that have been diluted so much that the odds are good that there’s not a single molecule of the remedy remaining.
Saw palmetto is not a placebo. I used to be into PE and used to take a lot of saw palmetto - and it made me have giant, giant loads. My friends also saw a significant increase in volume. It does something to the prostate and reproductive tract, what, I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did actually increase prostate health.
