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Title: Homoeopathy
Post by: Barman on May 29, 2009, 02:34:26 PM: Quote from: The Guardian
Following last week's spotlight on Fairtrade and food, this week we turn our 'You ask, they answer' series to look at organics and beauty. For the next four days, ethical skin and body care products firm Neal's Yard Remedies will be doing its best to answer your questions below.

Neal's Yard Remedies started life back in 1981, with a focus on using natural herbs for health and beauty. Since then, it's grown to 38 stores across the country, and started a range of green initiatives, including a number of certified organic products, bought carbon offsets to reduce its emissions and encouraged customers to recycle and reuse old packaging.

This is your chance to grill them: from the controversy surrounding the chain's removal of a homeopathic malaria remedy to the benefits and reasons to switch to organic beauty products.

Source (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/may/26/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies?commentpage=1)

This is excellent! Read the comments... lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 29, 2009, 02:40:07 PM: Quote
my bus has crashed - I've got a compound fracture in my right leg, the bone is sticking out from under the skin and is wedged into the 'Used Tickets' receptacle, my skull has had a good old thump against the seat in front and is impersonating a boiled egg after the first thump with the teaspoon, and my ribs have been broken into bits like a packet of smokey bacon crisps someone has stood on.

What herbs and aromatic oils would you recommend?

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Dear Neal's Yard,

I notice you sell kaolin. If I eat enough of it, will I be able to shit crockery?

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Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Barman on May 29, 2009, 02:44:10 PM: lol: lol: lol:

Keep reading!
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 29, 2009, 03:00:36 PM: Does it also cover natural remedies for Heterosexuals?
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Barman on May 29, 2009, 03:05:08 PM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on May 29, 2009, 03:00:36 PM
Does it also cover natural remedies for Heterosexuals?
No Darwin... noooo:
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 31, 2009, 11:28:10 AM: Quote
Homeopathy
Giving patients medicines that contain no medicine whatsoever.

Herbal Medicine
Giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety.

Acupuncture
A rather theatrical placebo, with no real therapeutic benefit in most, if not all, cases.

Chiropractic
An invention of a 19th-century salesman, based on nonsensical principles: shown to be no more effective than other manipulative therapies, but less safe.

Reflexology
Plain old foot massage, overlaid with utter nonsense about non-existent connections between your feet and your thyroid gland.

Nutritional Therapy
Self-styled “nutritionists” making untrue claims about diet in order to sell you unnecessary supplements.

Spiritual Healing
Tea and sympathy, accompanied by arm-waving.

Reiki
Ditto.

Angelic Reiki
The same but with added “angels, ascended masters and galactic healers”. Excellent for advanced fantasists.

Colonic Irrigation
A rectal obsession that fails to rid you of toxins which you didn’t have in the first place.

Anthroposophical Medicine
Invention of the mystic barmpot, Rudolf Steiner, for whom nothing whatsoever seems to strain credulity.

Alternative Diagnosis: Kinesiology, Iridology, Vega Test, etc:
Various forms of fraud, designed to sell you cures that don’t work, for problems you haven’t got.

Any Alternative “Therapist” Who Claims To Cure Aids Or Malaria
An agent of culpable homicide.
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Barman on May 31, 2009, 11:47:53 AM: I liked the concept of homoeopathic money! lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 31, 2009, 12:08:40 PM: Quote from: Barman on May 31, 2009, 11:47:53 AM
I liked the concept of homoeopathic money! lol: lol: lol:

So what is the difference between Homeopathy and Homoeopathy then?
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 31, 2009, 12:10:02 PM: The latter comes with free colonic irrigation?
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Barman on May 31, 2009, 12:18:49 PM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on May 31, 2009, 12:08:40 PM
Quote from: Barman on May 31, 2009, 11:47:53 AM
I liked the concept of homoeopathic money! lol: lol: lol:

So what is the difference between Homeopathy and Homoeopathy then?
A spelling checker?
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Snoopy on May 31, 2009, 01:47:50 PM: I have a second cousin who is a homoeopath. Makes a bloody fortune.
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 31, 2009, 01:49:32 PM: Doing what? eeek:
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Snoopy on May 31, 2009, 01:51:51 PM: Treating people's ailments ~ what else?

She charges as much as a private doctor would ~ like she says "I paid to study to get this qualification, it took four f'ing years"
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 31, 2009, 01:52:53 PM: Oh she's a homeopath doh: WHy didn't you say so?
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Snoopy on May 31, 2009, 01:57:30 PM: According to Collins Concise Dictionary either spelling is acceptable.

See also OED on line: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/homeopath?view=uk

Look it up whistle:
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Nick on May 31, 2009, 02:11:53 PM: :lalalala
Title: Re: Homoeopathy
Post by: Snoopy on May 31, 2009, 02:22:27 PM: razz: point: