A Brief Guide to Regulation of Health Products

Here is a look at how homeopathic drugs differ from conventional medicines and dietary supplements.

http://nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/17/health/AP-US-MED-Unproven-Remedies-Homeopathy-QA.html

thanks for posting.

Sid

that homeopathics are nothing more than sugar pills. And indeed no other active ingredients can be detected (except with an MRI). How can a sugar pill be blamed for physical symptoms? In your other thread, I suspect that the *problems* were related to the underlying issue and NOT the homeopathic remedy.

:grr:

Do you have something against homeopathy? I wouldn't have thought so...

They can either have NO effect or NEGATIVE effects, but you can't have it both ways.

And if they are effective in some ways, perhaps there are postive effects as well.

I think, at least.

I think of homeopathic remedies only having energy signatures, but it seems that some products are calling themselves homeopathic when they have actual chemical ingredients.

It's pretty confusing. Homeopathic designations should only be for the "sugar pill" or energetic water products. The rest can be herbs/vitamins/whatever category they fit into.

It isn't sound homeopathy to add ingredients! That's what I'm saying. The first article elleng posted was about ZINC. Now it's all homeopathy? Elemental Zinc is NOT homeopathy. I don't' believe it is *causing* the symptoms reported in THIS article. elleng participates in our group and I don't know why she is doing this here. Why not ask someone who might know?!

There is No Way (other than a homeopathic pharmacist) for anyone to determine *safe* levels in the preparation yada yada.

This is why my other comment was, "this smells like a witch hunt being set in motion"! Someone is trying to discredit homeopathy by lumping it in with a bunch of products that do not even qualify for the label, "homeopathy". BUT there is no regulating agency to prohibit them from doing so!

:grr:

edit: It would be similar to someone taking your CDs and mandating that they take digitalis while it runs.

The manufacturer themselves used the word "homeopathic" right on the box.

I guess we need a better homeopathy lobby to keep things like that from happening!!

keep non-genuine homeopathic stuff from calling itself such

edit: so the fda WILL study it, and those like my daughter won't use it and lose her sense of taste and smell.

Homeopathy lobby sucks.

If it had been a truly homeopathic product, it would have been water and couldn't have done a thing, good or bad. (Excepting of course if it were contaminated with bacteria or something, which is a given with the lax standards governing the production of supplements and homeopathic water.)

Selsun Blue hasn't made my hair fall out.