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February 8th, 2010 | 
Author: There are many videos on youtube where people take whole bottles of homeo sleeping pills without any effects!!
Tony..
True but what if the subject does not believe in homeo pills??Then the placebo effect goes down the drain…
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Homeopathy is pure garbage.
Homeopathic remedies are just sugar pills. They don’t actually contain any active ingredients.
Homeopathic ‘remedies’ are based on a very twisted kind of logic that the more you dilute the potency, the more effective it is.
They contain no active ingredients; the pills are just sugar
Could it be because the principles of homeopathy are that it takes only a very tiny dilution to achieve the desired result and a whole bottle of pills with such a dilution would not be dangerous just a waste of money.
Which would you prefer – someone taking a whole bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills or someone taking a whole bottle of mainstream sleeping pills? Even if in the case of sleeping pills the homeopathic pills worked primarily by placebo effect, they would obviously be far safer.
The reason is because there is nothing but starch or milk sugar in homeopathic sleeping pills.
Without going into my usual detail, essentially homeopathic preparations take an ingredient, such as caffeine, and dilute it to ridiculously weak concenetrations. Typically these are so dilute as to be equivalent to a teaspoon diluted with all the oceans of the world or worse.
James Randi started doing this when he gave talks on homeopathy, and I have done it myself a few times when I have given talks on Alternative Medicine. The trick is to make very sure that it is REAL homeopathic sleeping pills. Some things are labelled as “homeopathic” for marketing reasons as the term has become conflated with “natural and safe”. There are “homeopathic sleeping pills” that may have actual sedating medications like gravol or benadryl in them which could be harmful to take in excess.
Because there are no actual active ingredients in them.
However, I agree with Tony that if someone is going to take something for insomnia, better this than real sleeping pills. The placebo effect is very effective in terms of helping someone to sleep and it is much healthier to get to sleep without medication than by using something with actual pharmacoactive properties — and especially if you would try to take a whole bottle of them.
While the placebo effect can be useful, it obviously won’t work better than proper sleeping tablets, especially if your insomnia is more than just mildly psychological.
Since it’s stronger when it’s diluted, in theory, it would be devastatingly effective if you disolved half the pill in a gallon of water and only dropped a single drop of it on your tongue.
Should knock you out for a month.
Because homoeopathic preparations contain no active ingredients. Water is diluted to such an extent that there isn’t a single molecule of any active substance left. It’s simply water and it’s for the exact same reason that homoeopathy doesn’t work either.
CAVEAT: If any of you do attempt to OD on homoeopathic preparations make sure you read the bottle first; some preparations wrongly labelled “homoeopathic” do contain active ingredients and that could be dangerous.**
**Edit
Sorry I didn’t see that SkepDoc had already mentioned that. Damn great minds again..
Most everyone answered this – I just wanted to acknowledge FlipBap’s brilliant observation…ROFL