Reply #34: actually.....not exactly.... [View All]

[MsTryska]

homeopathy consists of taking a compound that full-strength causes specific symptoms and diluting it with alcohol and some water on the idea that minute doses will actually stop those same symptoms when they are caused by a different issue.


ie if poison ivy causes rashes, if you use a homeopathic compound of diluted poison ivy it will heal a rash you may have.


here's a better expalantion:

http://www.healthynewage.com/what-is-homeopathy.htm


as for whether homeopathy works or not - i personally have never tried it, but i do have a cat who's pooper is broken, and 6 pellets of nux vomica given over 3 days, once every couple months is the only thing that makes him poop on any sort of regular process.


it can't be the sugar in it because there's no more sugar in it than in the fortune cookies and sugar cookie bits he likes.


this is also a cat who is still constipated when given almost human doses of natural laxatives.


given the choice of shoving a horse-sized suppository up his ass, or giving him 2 homoepathic pellets a day for 3 days every 60 days - i'll choose the latter.