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I've take homeopathy once when I was young to alleviate my incurable bronchitis. It had good taste at least. Spoiler alert: my incurable bronchitis remained with me for 8 more years and was finally cured when my mom quit smoking.
A verdade é que funciona, mas não exatamente pra doenças físicas. Gringo tem noção praticamente nula disso, homeopatia costuma ser interessante pra problemas emocionais. Óbvio que se vc estiver com problemas físicos tu tem que tratar com o que funciona, mas é mto engraçado gringo se achando sabido sem entender nada kkkk
@@FabioSilvaMetal se funciona para a pessoa, independente do motivo, excelente. O perigo é quando a pessoa insiste em um tratamento que não vai dar resultado. Se não for uma doença urgente vale a pena tentar.
One of the best examples of the transferable placebo effect I observed in my psychology class was the case of a horse that could supposedly do math. By accident, I suppose they mentioned a math problem around a horse that then stamped its foot the number of times that equaled the answer. Obviously they were super excited and kept trying, and the horse kept getting it right. But the horse simply would keep stamping until the owners got visibly excited, at which point he stopped and was rewarded. The only math equation this horse knew was “stomp foot, get treats.”
Why don't you reach or watch the other side too. This is one sided. Homeopathy is a science too, based on real evidences. Goes through similar tests for approval like any other drug. And being a user, it works.
Funny, I am curing my cancer naturally. No faith involved. Just getting back to basics and using apricot seeds. Saved me a good 50k in treatment. No wonder the medical industry is so scared of people figuring health issues out for themselves.
I love the manner in which you approached this topic. It would be so easy to say something like "Homeopathy is dumb and doesn't work", yet you looked at it with pure facts and considered the pros and cons in a fairly neutral manner. Some members of my family swear by this 'natural cure-all spray' (which I'm almost certain is just tap water), but since the placebo effect of the spray actually helps them, I avoid saying anything about it. However, what's to stop people from re-selling Tic-Tacs and claiming them as anti-cancer pills? There's definitely a 'snake-oil salesman' aspect to this movement which I cannot respect. It's not difficult to profit from the ignorant.
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As another has already said the amount of hydric acid they put in substances used in "homeopathy" is simply unacceptable. If you can be right about one thing please let it be to stay away from this horrible chemical. Just saying consumption of hydric acid is linked to some serious problems, it's unbelievable what we let into our bodies for the sake of mainstream 'science'.
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I grew up with homeopathy. Any time I was sick, my mom would open up this huge book about homeopathy and researched what about my symptoms. Also, when the illness didn't go away or wasn't clear she talked about consulting with an expert on the topic. After learning about the actual process of how globuli is made it took a while for me to accept that it's all just placebo - even though I normally tend to question everything I'm being told. Just goes to show how strong some belief can become ingrained if that's what you grew up with.
Doctors ask you even minute questions to know your sypmptoms better,as homeopathy works on symptoms,If the symptoms match the medicine ,the treatment is sure,,If does not match the symptom,no treatment. That is the reason they ask you several question just for correct medicine selection. It is not to have any time pass with you,, you believe in Allopath statement about Homeopathy,that is Placebo. Have research then have any opinion, first action of Homeopathy is Placebo which is brain control,,it does not rest on Placebo only,,further it proceeds to the other functions in order to cure the disease.Hope you 7nderstand
Homeopathy took the dragon scroll from kung fu panda too literally..... *"To make something special, u just believe it's special. There is no secret ingredient."*
@@thomas_2the_lynott146 it can still work. I think placebo is subconscious related. Even if you consciously know its ineffective, your subconscious mind might still beleive it works.
My mom had a plastic pill case that held a lot of tiny bottles of homeopathy pellets and would give them to me when I was feeling pain or discomfort. I didn’t really believe they were medicine even at that time, but the act of her giving me the homeopathy showed that my mom cared and sympathized for me and I think that made me feel better mentally. Thankfully my mom only used homeopathy for minor stuff like stomach aches or growing pains and took me to the doctor for more serious ailments, so I only have fond memories of homeopathy.
That's an excellent example of the placebo effect. Really. No sarcasm. And children are excellent candidates for placebo effect treatments given how little ability they have to distinguish a minor ailment from a major injury.
I stay far away from medical doctors… trained by big pharma who just want to sell toxic drugs that do not promote health. No money in that. I use homeopathy and have seen it work winders on myself, and my family. I was going to study homeopathy and chose wholistic nutrition instead. Real Food including herbs etc is the only medicine we need, along with healthier lifestyle, and not the garbage being sold as ‘food’.
How can it be placebo for other animals though? So many do not understand energy, the life force that exists in everything. Just because it’s not understood by many doesn’t make it false. People believe in myth-illogical ‘gods’ for pete’s sake…created in minds who knew nothing about creation, evolution back then. So much has been discovered that people couldn’t fathom…think about it.
As he swallowed a drop of ocean water, the sky went black. Lightning sprang from his body. His eyes turned radiant white as he levitated, and with a maniacal laugh, he bellowed: "I am the centrifuge of all the matter on earth! Every atom turns at my command! Nothing can stop me" Suddenly he curls up, sweating, sickly pale, and the shit eschews out of him like a riot hose. "...except apparently every E. Coli bacterium that has ever lived"
Except it probably can, if you have faith in the sugar water. Working at an alternative practice, the amount of times I've heard of cancers, disorders, and diagnosed diseases that were "obviously not real, since you're better now" from peoples GP is absurd. I'm not saying homeopathy/water directly cures or helps anything beyond hydration. What I'm saying is, homeopathics fit a niche that provides actual help to people. It is not a cold remedy. I have seen patients who have been through several chemo plans w/o help, and come back from a vision quest healthy. The positives that come with a positive outlook are undeniable, and plentiful.
Had eczema on the toes and scalp for 8 years. Got fed up with it from year 3, but couldn't do anything because i was a kid. The homeopathic doctor kept telling that it has a tendency to bounce back. I had a miserable school life because of this disease. Eczema on the scalp meant no social life as i was embarrassed to the ground. I couldn't eat many things because the fu@king doctor advised against them, like curd, limes, tamarinds, onions and what not. Got out of home in 11th class. Visited the best University hospital in the city. Was Cured in 3 months. 9 years on today, it hasn't bounced back.
Very sorry to hear about the miserable time you had when younger. I know how much eczema can degrade quality of life. I'm glad to know that with appropriate treatment you got so much better.
DBox Ers Mainstream medicine is just medicine that’s been made in the most efficient safe and proven form. Herbal remedies simply contain chemicals which are also used in a purer form in regular scientific medicine. Crystal healing and astrology just bubkis, neither rocks or colossal balls of plasma many light years away care about your “chakra alignment” or your “spiritual journey”
Ravenclaw . No mention of chakra alignment or spiritual journey in my reply. So you brought up imaginative & fictional points to be argumentative. Says a lot about where you will end up with an attitude like that. And, additionally, if you think Big Pharma cares about you, you really do need some enlightenment.
ah yes, diluting things makes them more potent. I remember that lesson in chemistry class. It came right after the one about how snorting thermite and then igniting it will give you super strength.
if you mix fuel, metal oxide and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at over 2000 degrees Celsius. Hot enough to cut through any barrier known to mankind. Throw in some C4 into the mix, and you've got one hell of a combination - Thermite 2015
Had bronchitis for 6 years. Took homoeopathic medicine for 1 year and I'd get better during a particular season and then had attack again. It got cured this year when I moved away from Delhi. Turns out it was pollen and pollution causing it. Took me a while to realise the entire situation. Turns out the belief that "I can get better" does wonders. As I'm sure it did in 1800s for people when proven remedies were non existent
In Organon of medicine it's written that the physician should also focus on the cause of disease and he should remove that cause. In your case pollen and bad quality of air was the cause of your bronchitis. The simple point of Hahnemann was that why we drug a person if he can be cured by removing the exciting cause of the disease. If you would have went to an allopath then he would have prescribed you anti allergy, anti inflammatory and medicines which can dilate your bronchi. So removing the exciting cause is better than making your body a dump ground of medicine.
It's very similar for me. I used to get asthma randomly throughout the year, but after continuing homeopathy for like 2 years, and after COVID, it's only got restricted to only the late autumn to early winter days. For the remaining I'm completely fine no backlashes👍
Of course sugar can cure and even prevent cancer! Proof: everyone in my family has a massive sweet tooth, and not one of us has cancer. Check mate, big pharma!!111!
Sarcasm is a major component of today's speech. It is now at a rise. Also sugar causes cancer. Due to the way sucrose is broken down and it feeds cancerous cells. Oncogenes do exist. ATP synthesis is valuable. But causes lots of issues too. There is reason we consume Antooxidatens. Not directing the info at you madam but at the other guy. If he thinks sugar isn't that bad for you. Or if he knows then hurray. More knowledge for everyone
@@agctony123 Many of us know what the placebo effect is , but I am not sure about the part when you said "cured cancer". The person no longer had cancer without doing chemoterapy ? Doctors use the placebo effect example when the person has a severe head ache but he/she has no real disease,they will convince him/her that they will give him a very strong medicine which will cure his head ache but instead it's just a sugar tablet . We had a neighbor who said that their cancer was cured because of some "miraculous plant" who was believing in all this homeopathic bs,saying that he never did and chemoterapy .He kept bragging about this on the internet etc. but died next month (I don't know the person but my parents do and told me about this).
I would really like to see something like this on astrology. I have a few friends who swear by it. Once I saw a girl at a party crying in the corner, when I asked if she was ok she told me that she had to break up with her boyfriend earlier because they had "incompatible zodiac signs".
People were stupid and and made assumptions. Humanity didn't know better. But now that we turned away from assumption, and turned towards logic and evidence, people are just ignorant and practically retarded.
Oh, I hate homeopathy with burning passion. I once got a staphilococcus that kept spreading as my dear mother kept tugging me around healers and fed sugar pills. It got to the point of my eyes welding shut with pus every morning and having actual troubles eating because my lips were crusted with pus and skinless underneath - and I'm pretty sure like half of my mental illnesses come from that experience. Thank god and that one cat for inventing antibiotics and thank my grandma for taking me to an actual doctor. The infection was subdued in like a week after a month of unchecked spreading. Anyways, if I see another homeopathy affictionado I will start swinging - these hands held trust and respect at some point, maybe the trace amounts will be felt.
@@mercuryfillings8576 You don't have to compare one person's trauma to another's. There will always be someone in a worse situation. That doesn't mean the rest of us should be invalidated. Everyone's experience is real and we all have the right to be heard. If you don't care about someone else's troubles, you can just keep scrolling. ❤️
The best point this video makes isn't whether homeopathy is bunk, of course it is. No, the best point it makes is about the modern healthcare industry needing to address psychological needs as much as homeopaths do.
not really possible, I mean really expensive doctors take care of you, but then you can't feed your family and get in lots of debt so you start cooking meth which is also a problem :/
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Homeopathy is so last-gen. I do Pizzapathy now. Every time I have a headache, I eat a pizza tonno and about 1 to 20 hours later, my headaches are gone. Like they never existed. OK, sometimes my headaches get worse. That's how I know that the pizza is actually working, that's the so called initial worsening. But I just eat another pizza tonno and it usually gets better. But you can't just eat pizza tonno, that depends on what pizza type you are. You should get a pizza type consultation done first, to make sure you take the right pizza. With a friend of mine, tonno doesn't work and he has to use cardinale. Also, if a pizza doesn't work for some reason, it's not because the pizza isn't a cure for headaches, it probaby was not stored properly or the store you got it at interrupted the freezing chain. These things should definitely only be handled by professionals and not treated like it was just some foodstuff. Those pizzas are made by a company here called "Dr. Oetker", as you can see in the name, it's been developed by a doctor. Still, therapeutic pizzas are still not covered by medical insurances because of a conspiracy by the pharma corporations who know that nobody would ever touch their expensive pills if people finally realized that all they have to do is eat tasty pizzas! And don't you dare tell me it's just imagination and placebo effect. HE WHO CURES IS RIGHT! (and yes, just in case... this is satire)
And don't forget, if you see studies proving pizza doesn't work, don't be fooled. Proof is subjective and about what you experience, not these thousands of not-you people being carefully observed by "impartial" shills 🙃 Your anecdotes about pizza are evidence and your body is the exception to whatever these "studies" say. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't opened their minds yet to how good alternatives like pizza can be. (Also satire ofc).
@@chocolizard678 Studies... in labs... no wonder that stuff doesn't work. Pizza has a memory and it remembers if you cook it in an oven that heated your petri dishes before!
Their spinach pizza really helps lift your mood, improve appetite, general well-being, and has been proven to cure the common cold over and over again by numerous studies!
6:57 attention and empathy from a doctor did make a huge difference in my mental well being. Many doctors refused to listen to my little problems , until one day i found a doctor who would listen to every single one of my problems and even noticed the symptoms on me. Now i really trust that doctor.
As I learned in med school, doctor-patient relationships play a huge role on the placebo effect and healing. The placebo effect is not just a psychological phenomenon. It triggers neurophysiological systems in ways that aid healing (or worsen it in the case of nocebo). A funny thing worth mentioning is that the placebo effect has been observed to be stronger if the doctor consulted is wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope around his neck. This augments the effect even if said “doctor” is not an actual medical doctor.
Time is a ruler to measure the day. It doesn't go backwards, only one way. Watch it go round like a merry-go-round. Going so fast like a merry-go-round.
I've been suffering from post-trauma knee pains, and have been taking homeopathy for several years. That doctress saw me the same way you described: was very attentive and friendly, for a long time was asking me about my problems. I kinda felt better after every visit... but in general I couldn't get cured. A pain was lastly finished when I went to a good experienced surgeon and passed through the operation (they polished spikes, welded my meniscus (which turned out to be broken), strenghten my ligament and so on). How much money and time did I lose for a homeopathy! Of course, surgery is expensive, scary and painful, and recovering is long, but at least it works.
original homeopathy be like "okay, so you need to listen to a set of rules that basically is a very healthy lifestyle, but here's a pill which cures you and totally not the diet."
I'm still not certain whether it's about having a very healthy lifestyle (because stuff like not napping or sitting is a bit weird), or about creating an essentially impossible to obey instruction, which you can then use as defense when the medicine didn't work, because it's almost certain they made at least one 'mistake' somewhere.
Honestly, the second version is way better. It forces less stress on the patient. Reading that sentence makes you realize how hard it is to change a person’s behavior for health. Reading that sentence makes you evaluate the health care’s efforts to change patient behavior. One comes to the conclusion that doctors haven’t yet mastered this art. After you closely read your conclusion, you realize how similar to the one in the video.
@@Alblaka That is probably the key. Set up extremely strict rules that, if followed, could give the result that you can then attribute to your fake pills. Then if your fake pills don't work, blame the victim for their own failure to follow your rules.
Antivaxx... What I find funny is that if you show a scientist proof that he is wrong, he'll analyse it and change his mind. However proving antivaxx/homeopathy fans they're wrong simply reinforces their beliefs
@@charans6873 The whole concept of vaccination is to put viral molecules or parts of molecular structures into the body so the immune system can learn to recognize the virus before the infection. It doesn't get any closer to 'like' than this. Heck, in some cases it is the inert virus itself what they use as antigene. Lol.
@@Zenedoboz i know all this already.. lol You need to study first.. like in homoeopathy is the SYMPTOM. healthy human body not having any symptom cannot be considered as like. I know you will still not get its ok it happens.. you need to take baryta carb
@@charans6873 I'm not sure you can tell the difference, but reading up on something online does not count as studying. Just as taking a sugar pill will not make your brain develop. So take your chill pill and leave the medicine to the grownups, ok?
My parents had a good relation with a Homeopathy Doctor. I too liked him. Whenever I or my brother fell ill, my parents would take me to him. I think the reason behind it was their medicine had sweet sugar balls which could be swallowed easily instead of tablets.I am thankful that my parents atleast completed my vaccinations. Now my father doesn't trust Homeopathy anymore cuz they were not able to cure his disease for months. My father's condition worsen as the months passed and he got himself admitted to a Hospital. He is fine now.
Your father was probably filled with toxins and other poisons and trash that the herbs were fighting against. Some of those instructions given by homeopathy type people are indeed ridiculous but some of them are necessary.
@@utentesenzavoglia1475 seems pretty convincing to me, I've had those sugar balls, I love them. Medicine from actual taste like expired strawberry syrup ,yucky, which probably means the medicine is legit and sugar balls taste too good to be true
This video beautifully expresses my thoughts on homeopathy and the problem with modern medicine. As a doctor, I see how patients are treated as numbers and not people. Homeopathy is a scam but it addressess the need people have to be listened to and validated. Every day I have patients tell me how they feel better after simply talking to me. Unfortunately that is becoming more and more rare in "modern medicine" where you're lucky to see a PA or nurse practitioner, much less a doctor.
The only reason homeoscammers treat their 'patients' like that is because they're SCAMMING them for money. Not because they're curing them. Homeoscammers should be put behind bars, they are criminals, in some cases murderers, we have NOTHING to learn from them. Scam is not empathy. Every day some naive people end up dead because instead of actual medicine and diagnosis they received 'warm words' and sugar water from these bandits.
I knew a rich guy. In a conversation about the cold and flu he got fascinated when I told him I cure myself resting and eating hot soup, he couldn't believe people can be cured without expensive medicines. He also was a huge client of homeopathy, he always had tiny bottles of that stuff to avoid alergies and colds, what a nightmare for him had to be to live believing the body can't cure itself from common cold hahaha.
When all that time he has been taking nothing more than sugar pills/sugar water, instead of actual expensive medicine. I guess his body surely cannot cure itself of the common cold. Not without strict intake of sugar water, at least.
Yeah, there are people with Parkinson's who can stop shaking (temporarily) through placebo effects. It's definitely a real effect, it's just caused by your brain instead of by anything external.
In a Nutshell screwed up big time on this one. They are presenting placebo as meaning the power of belief or something. This is a big misconception. That is not and has never been the purpose of a placebo win in a test. The placebo wing is there to account for biases and anomalous data. Placebo does not heal and there is no science indicating that it does. This is such a misunderstood part of science.
I’m not a fan of homeopathy, but I agree on using homemade/natural solutions for *minor* problems, like milk and honey for a throat ache, or a bit of hot soup and rest for a fever (obviously if it’s only 37-38 C). A fundamental part of it is not to be excessively worried or stressed because of something like a runny nose.
The main reason homeopathy got a foothold in medicine. The guy who made up that water has memory and will cure you, also forced their patients to have a minimum hygiene, stop consuming tobacco, alcohol and hard to digest foods, etc... No wonder so many of his patients would have improvements. They were also pretty hydrated.
And at the same time he had plenty of reasons/excuses if it didn't work. I mean, who is able to follow all of those rules? You can be pretty sure that, after a week, your patient will have broken at least one rule which means he can always say it didn't work because of this.
Stomach upsets , swellings in lymph nodes , etc . has been cured for me by homeopathy . So I guess the perfect solution is -- homeopathy for mild disorders and original medicines for more severe cases . I should protect my placebo at all costs
The people who believes in homeopathy will very likely to extreme even more their position after watching this. There is no room for reason when talking about beliefs.
True. I grew up with homeopathy, but we used it for non severe cases like a small fever or just a cold. And for that it always worked because of the well known Placebo effect. For larger stuff we always go to a normal doctor to get diagnosed (Awesome German Healthcare system ;) ) and then get actual medicine for that. Not every Person that uses Homeopathy is against the normal medicine ;)
I grew up with Homeopathy, whether it was placebo or something else, I recall one instance of having a cold, all the symptoms. Our doctor gave me something and within seconds, it all disappeared. Never had it work like that before or after that one time. It was magical. All that being said, I swear by Nux Vomica, works wonders for anything related to the digestive system. Nausea, heartburn, upset stomach, diarrhoea, constipation, winds. Well, its always worked for me.
Once in high school I dated this girl, who’s mom gave me this odd “homeopathic medicine” called “oscillococcinum” or something like that when i had the flu. I remember it tasting exactly like sugar. I did some research on its own ingredients and sure enough, it was sugar. And supposedly mixed with a diluted drop of water that had duck liver in it but diluted to the point to where it had not one molecule of duck liver left and this was supposed to cure the flu. But when I tried explaining this to the mom and my girlfriend I was treated with anger. That was in 2008 or so. I remember watching James Randi and Reading quack watch articles on that type of “medicine”. Good times…
@@downfromkentuckeh there isn’t any efficacy. Duck liver has nothing to do with the flu and isn’t proven to cure anything. Even if it WASNT diluted a million times over. The fact that the parent company BOIRON is allowed to continue to do business is an affront to humanity and medical science.
@redlegagent Fun fact: The phrase "God helps those who help themselves," is never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Just more proof that Christians don't even read their own book and make shit up lol.
I had sinusitis and my nose used to be blocked every day ,i wasnt able to live without nasal sprays , after taking homeopathy since then i forgot about my nasal congestion, it worked like magic .
I had a post-nasal drip and regular coughing issue . I used a lot of allopathy but it persisted. After few months I turned to homeopath and got cured by it within a month. In my childhood I had nose blockage which was cured by homeopathy.
@@vismedicatrixnature2595 And yet none of that has anything to do with A: homeopathy does not work. We've tested it. B: the mechanism by which it is claimed to work is anti science, and essentially 'magic.' and C: it does not work. We've tested it. Really, if it worked, drug companies would *OWN* it. Instead of making expensive drugs and selling them, they's just mix stuff with pure water and dilute, and sell that. Much cheaper.
I stopped homeopathic medicine when I spent 5 miserable years naturally curing my severe eczema with no success ....... then got a prescription of steroid cream and it went away in 24 hours
Thanks homeopathy for treatment of my four years of fungal infection 😍.....otherwise I will not even alive Today...I m just blessed with homeopathy medicine ❤️....Thanks to doctor
What about situation when soma Karen demands from doctor any medicine recommendation like antibiotics to cure her son's flu? I know that homeopathy is placebo but it has some use scenarios.
My grandad had studied homeopathy, and practiced it just for close family. I don't know the science behind it but I have seen this sugar water cure extreme allergies which were going on for decades. From scalp infections to chronic urticaria, it could be placebo but as someone who had tried all medicines and given up hope and was forced by parents to try it, with absolutely 0 faith it in working out, it actually did help. I want to study it in the future too, just to understand the sheer logic behind how it works. It might not replace modern medicine and it's possible that you might need the appendectomy more than sugar pills, but personally, whenever modern medicine raised its hands in defeat, this alternate medicine has worked wonders.
Yes it works wonders for some chronic diseases, the homeopathy doctor my father knows has Vitiligo, and it he self medicated and it took him 10 years of consistent use for his skin to return to normal. A friend of his who had the same issue tried homepathy for a couple months and then switched to allopathic medicine had it spread to all his body.
My mom died from cancer recently- she smoked for close to 20 years, but quit for over 10. She never went to a doctor, unless it was a serious injury, She never had a mammogram once in her life and she had never looked into the early warning signs of lung cancer, which they could've caught long before it had spread to her brain. (She passed at 60 and they begin X-ray screening at 50). Guess what? She was huge into homeopathic medicine. She took dozens of different tablets, claiming they were all healthy and beneficial. She became incredibly OCD about what kind of foods to eat and didn't trust anything that wasn't organic. She also did a bunch of weird treatments, like "light" therapy, and god knows what else. I watched my mom succumb to cancer in 7 months flat, because she didn't even want to do Chemotherapy and never tried any other options that were available. She also spent probably the last of her money on "CBD oil" claiming that she would "get over" the cancer that way. All of that stemmed from her medical ignorance and distrust of doctors. She was also an anti-vaxxer, believed in aliens, and thought "rocks" carried healing properties. The point is- its fake. Homeopathy is all bullshit, and purely anecdotal. How you feel about something doesn't help you fight cancer or improve your health. Go to your doctor, get a check up, ask them to check out that weird mole, tell them you have a strange cough, whatever it takes. Go to your medically licensed doctor before its too late. Don't lead yourself down that path- don't be gullible, look into things on your own, then ask a freaking doctor about it. They will gladly answer your questions. And yes- before any of you weirdo "Doctor bad" people reply about your miracle success stories, or how your loved ones are "beating" cancer with turmeric root or whatever- she did EVERYTHING. It didn't work. End of story.
Yeah, these stories are exactly why doctors give both real medicine and homeopathy, the Last one is just to maximise the placebo effect, but we must never forget real treatment
It's all just placebo effect. I remember a relative of mine having frequent BAD migraines after her first kid was born. She used to take homeopathic medicines. One time she asked me to bring her her "healing water" but I didn't know where it was and didn't want to ask her because she was usually PISSED af during her migraines. So I just brought her tap water without letting her know. She was fine ten minutes later.
@@blarg2429 said "Could also have been dehydrated" Could also have been a large paracetamol leak into county reservoir All you scientism adepts are taught that everything can be explained with lense clouds, weather ballons and other childish hypothesis...at least until Navy said lense clouds were NOT lense clouds
that's untrue don't you know scientists are just normal people having their own beliefs? about anything, which isn't scientifically proven And this doesn't make them magically lose all their knowledge
@@aloedg3191You must know a lot of great homoeopathic doctors who are still very popular for their works used to be an antipathic doctor and had lots of hate towards homoeopathy and they started to know homoeopathy to criticize it. But later when they understood homoeopathy they became great and did a lot of works
One thing i must say is homoeopathy is mostly unknown to most of the people even this video is talking nonsense. Homoeopathy has its science and i can say if you all know about the modern science well and just change your perspective then you all will understand how homoeopathy works. It's just lack of actual information in the internet that's spreading this hate and making people say that homoeopathy is bullshit.
@@anikkamila7434 Or it's because it's faith-based nonsense that's been tested and has shown to not do anything beyond placebo. It's not unknown, it's just people who have faith it works won't change their minds, and when pointed out that it's nonsense they get upset and think people are hating them. If the "information" you say exists of it actually working beyond placebo, please present it. Otherwise, you are just another irrational faith-based believer who thinks they hold neglected truth while completely disarmed of evidence.
The second one, mostly. Selling people overpriced placebo, especially when a more effective real treatment isn't being sought as a result, is health endangering fraud.
What if such a highly valued placebo helps people get better who would otherwise have gotten worse and died or stayed in great pain and suffering for the rest of their life?
A lot of people run to the doctor as soon as they get a cold or flu for which the doctor prescribes antibiotics which do nothing to cure the cold and in the long run may hurt you. Every time someone takes an antibiotic the less effective it will become later on and breeds super bugs. Giving the patient a placebo just to shut them up is a better option.
As comedian Tim Minchin once put it in his beat poem Storm; "If you can show me that, say, Homeopathy works then I will change my mind. I will spin on a fucking dime. I'll be embarrassed as hell, and I'll run through the streets shouting 'It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it! Water has *memory*!' And while its 'memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo its had in it!"
@@gabrielrosales7559 Yep. At the time, homeopathy worked, because the 'medicine' was so lethal. Homeopathy [not poisoning patients or making them sicker] looked good in comparison. Now we have real medicine based on science, imperfect though it may be.
I think it would still be tough to move mountains even with thousands of tons of dynamite. You might need close to 10s million tons of dynamite to crack it.
No bro reverse placebo is even better . My mother told me to take homeopathy for food poisoning and it did and she told me it would make me sleep. And guess what I got sleep and just few days ago I am learning that homepathy won't make you sleep. So ya reverse placebo is even better.
water and sugar wont make you sleepy, both of them make you more energized, although sugar depends on the type. learn some shit before you insult someone kid(very likely you are, looking at both your posts)
If homeopathy worked, medicine companies would make diluted medicine themselves. It would be much cheaper for them. Arguing for homeopathy is arguing that capitalism isn't that ruthlessly profit focussed. - Randall Monroe in Xkcd 808
+ ollehkacb Homeopathy solutions have much lower production costs and much higher profit margins than standard medicine. Medicine companies would love to get in on that action. However, if they did, they would lose far more money due to class action lawsuits. If homeopathy worked, then medicine companies could produce homeopathic medicines without fear of being sued.
It's a super common white name. White women, especially middle aged, have time to spare, seldom filling it with work or leisure: maybe they don't have a boyfriend waiting outside, a job to get back to at a certain time, and if they have children, they prefer avoiding them. So basically we have a bored housewife living a plain life with no real outlet for their anger or stress. Yet, unlike minorities, they are used to having blind privilege, and they have been fed the great corporate lie that the customer is always right. They're bored, stressed, and wanting control over daily life, but they can't get it elsewhere, so it's only when they purchase things or services that they exercise a feeling of power (capitalist white lie: when you spend, you're powerful. Spend more!). They can play with the idea that they are superior to employees for being the paying customer. Since they lack (or fake that they lack) patience and empathy, as well as the ability to accept that life isn't a box of chocolates, trouble ensues. They don't see themselves as important enough, powerful enough, so they try to prove their influence or power to others/themselves by creating confrontation. First thing would be getting into arguments and trying to win them with customer service, knowing that they have an upper hand. Then follows to try to get things for free. This leads them to feel smart or cunning. Then there's the added plus of actually getting stuff for free, and being able to say "I won." Most companies will give people stuff to avoid dealing with them (time is money). They will give compensations without a valid reason just to avoid escalations ("I want a full refund or I'll be posting stuff on facebook and I'm super popular") or lawsuit threats, however empty. Companies are in fact so used to it that they now hire normal employees, give them a tiny bit more power, and call them managers. So when Karen asks to speak with your manager next time, she's not speaking to your direct boss, like she thinks she is. She's speaking with someone hired specifically to deal with people like her, who earn just a bit more than normal employees.
When I was a kid, my mom often used homeopathy for my colds, and it worked well for most. But she never denied actual medication from me when needed, if I got very sick.
My favorite part was the "but homeopathy IS Big Pharma". Most users think they're "sticking it" to Big Pharma when they're just financing it. It's even sad.
Is it really big pharma though? If you take the Pharmaceutical Index off the NYSE what % is homeopathic? 10%? 1%? 0.1%? A quick google search reveals that no-one has bothered to do this calculation yet.
Just by accounting for 0.1% they're part of big pharma. There is no cut off point in size. The local butcher is also part of the meat industry. The point is that instead of seeing them as a totally different sector in the world with a headquarters hidden in the jungle with golden haired angels working for them, they're just a "pharmaceutical" company selling water.
They're sticking it to themselves; but there are many more examples of people fucking themselves, like choosing a political affiliation. Being a Democrat or Republican means nothing anymore, especially since most congressman, senators, or the prez & his cabinet are bi-partisan in their views and more likely following some form of corruption to benefit themselves personally anyway. Another prime example, believing in God, also useless, is like believing in the luck of the Irish, or bad luck after accidentally breaking a mirror. Most people are so absorbed in the world of Scientific achievement they are too stupid to either admit it or realize it, which would be confirmation bias, another example of Scientific achievement in Psychology. I'm tired; you get the point...
remember to stir the water so that the molecules can absorb its essence. in fact, banks will be in ruins once the public obtains this knowledge. however, why are 'they' still controlling everything in our lives? it's because the world is ruled by satan & aliens are our only hope to save humanity. with their help, we can rediscover ancient technologies like healing crysta i felt nauseous pretending to be retarded, so i'm gonna leave it there.
Last year I visited a homeopath for my acne... and I thought it would be the usual 5-10 min. chat... But the doctor spoke to me for 1 and a half hour.... He asked me about my entire medical and life history and after I got out I was like WOW... no one has ever listened to me so patiently before.. lol
@@sajaljain9150 did you get the result from homeopathy? im currently taking medicine for tumor and acne oily skin 🤣🤣 before that i take english medicine for 1 week it really reduce my oil production then i stopped and take homoeopath due to my father against english medicine
As a homeopathic doctor, what my mother always says is "homeopathy is the medicine for patients, not for diseases" which is why she talks for hours with her patients knowing "them" not their "disease"❤
Then why this placebo effect doesn't through so-called modern medicine? Most of the people turn to homoeopathy after being disappointed from many practitioners of so-called modern medicine and get cured. They had no beleif or faith in homoeopathy in the begining, so they tried allopathy again and again with trmendous faith. If the faith is the cause of the placebo effect, then why it didn't occur during allopathy management? Most of the people come to homoeopathy after being disappointed from any medicine and they have doubts in their mind. How this so-called placebo effect which didn't act earlier, not shows results? To answer these questions, one needs common sense, which is not common in common people. Scoience without conscience is not only fruitless, but it may be dangerous too! @@Juicelord001
Was das problem ist.... Von der Regierung finanzierte Forschung bzw in diesem Fall das Erklären ist immer (Saats-)ideologiebehaftet. Aber mal abwarten wie sich das entwickelt. Etwas mehr wissenschaftliches Wissen und nicht nur emotionale Kurzschlussreaktionen und ablaufen von Skripten tut der deutschen Öffentlichkeit sicher gut.
No way.. that would be far too many molecules of alcohol per glass :P. What you need to do is take an eye dropper, put one drop on a surface, absorb 99% of it and let the rest fall into the lake. Then you can tell the dumbasses that you have homeopathic alcohol and you can drink all the actual beer yourself.
Appreciate your try, but you got it wrong. According to the "alike cures alike" principle, one drop of beer on a lake should get every drunk awake and sober. But still, not diluted enough and you could not shake the dillution properly.
This is exactly why people need to learn logical reasoning and critical thinking. Without them, well, we might as well be children. I don't understand how something so rudimentary and important is still not taught in schools everywhere.
Because political people that decide what is in the school books also get sponsored in the political campaign by pharmaceuticals companies that have billions of dollars profit ?
It is taught in France, but no one cares because today society learn to peoples that they are all awesome and unique, so no one thinks anymore because they thinks they deserve the world, by doing nothing. That's sad
They said "a number of videos that will not exist in english FOR A WHILE". I'm absolutely certain all content will be available in English at some point. Considering all the effort that goes into the animations, they simply can not NOT provide their content to their biggest audience.
Naja, kannst ja ein paar Lernfilme auf UA-cam schauen. Oder dich mit deutschen in den Kommentaren auseinandersetzen. Ich, zumindest, biete meine Dienste an..
According to 40 state medical boards & the FDA, prescribing a homeopathic treatment is grounds enough to lose your medical license pending extensive review. So if that's any indication as to it's effectiveness or safety, I don't know what is.
@@acidmizer Yeah you are right, it's not always SuGaR WatEr. It has worked on me several times, during fevers, skin allergies and headaches etc. I can't say placebo effect is always responsible for it. To me this video was more like a sponsor for Allopaths.
@@acidmizer in fact many men have been driven to truly great deeds, exceeding their own limits by faith/conviction/having the feeling of serving a purpose greater than themselves. There's nothing mystical, irrational in this point of view
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Homeopathy us famous in India.
The clock you used to represent time is from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared!!
"Shaking the mixture after every dilution leaves behind a spirit like essence."
*Science has left the chat*
*Science has left the very concept, the very thought, of Homeopathy*
But it's essence is still there
@Brian Griffin sex is witchcraft?
@@Wickedonezz where did that idea come from?
There wasn’t any science there in the first place in that theory
I've take homeopathy once when I was young to alleviate my incurable bronchitis. It had good taste at least. Spoiler alert: my incurable bronchitis remained with me for 8 more years and was finally cured when my mom quit smoking.
I’m glad you’re doing better and that your mom finally quit! :)
e verdade esse bilete
A verdade é que funciona, mas não exatamente pra doenças físicas. Gringo tem noção praticamente nula disso, homeopatia costuma ser interessante pra problemas emocionais. Óbvio que se vc estiver com problemas físicos tu tem que tratar com o que funciona, mas é mto engraçado gringo se achando sabido sem entender nada kkkk
@@manasim.9936 ty, I was very happy for her and for myself. At least she din't smoke during the pregnancy. She is a health old lady today :)
@@FabioSilvaMetal se funciona para a pessoa, independente do motivo, excelente. O perigo é quando a pessoa insiste em um tratamento que não vai dar resultado. Se não for uma doença urgente vale a pena tentar.
One of the best examples of the transferable placebo effect I observed in my psychology class was the case of a horse that could supposedly do math. By accident, I suppose they mentioned a math problem around a horse that then stamped its foot the number of times that equaled the answer. Obviously they were super excited and kept trying, and the horse kept getting it right. But the horse simply would keep stamping until the owners got visibly excited, at which point he stopped and was rewarded. The only math equation this horse knew was “stomp foot, get treats.”
Why don't you reach or watch the other side too. This is one sided. Homeopathy is a science too, based on real evidences. Goes through similar tests for approval like any other drug. And being a user, it works.
@@Songs-lr4wt realy?
@@Songs-lr4wt source? Just trust me bro?
@@Songs-lr4wt I mean, if the placebo sugar pills help you, that's cool. Don't try to justify your bullshit believes though
@@Songs-lr4wt the Tabacco companies did the same thing... at least homeopathic medicine doesn't directly kill people.
"Faith can move mountains, but sugar water can't cure cancer" is my new favorite quote
But antibiotics can give u resistance
@@tadrnkpo7535 homeo fraud spotted
Funny, I am curing my cancer naturally. No faith involved. Just getting back to basics and using apricot seeds. Saved me a good 50k in treatment. No wonder the medical industry is so scared of people figuring health issues out for themselves.
@@tadrnkpo7535 at least antibiotics can do something🤣
@@strnglhld yes MDR
I love the manner in which you approached this topic. It would be so easy to say something like "Homeopathy is dumb and doesn't work", yet you looked at it with pure facts and considered the pros and cons in a fairly neutral manner.
Some members of my family swear by this 'natural cure-all spray' (which I'm almost certain is just tap water), but since the placebo effect of the spray actually helps them, I avoid saying anything about it.
However, what's to stop people from re-selling Tic-Tacs and claiming them as anti-cancer pills? There's definitely a 'snake-oil salesman' aspect to this movement which I cannot respect. It's not difficult to profit from the ignorant.
Someone's a bit grumpy. Need a hug?
Numberer1;
A true god among us. He is the numberer1 human on this planet for all of humanity's meme tax.
God isn't dead; he is reborn! And he watches In A Nutshell! Seems awfully human too.
I want a hug.
(I also use this account as my general viewing account...and I watch at least 30 videos a day. It's a ritual at this point.)
Consider yourself hugged
Massive doses of homeopathy cured my dehydration
Cartman you make my day.
Sugar pills cured my hypo glycemic episode
cartman I took some homeopathic pills to help me sleep and after only 23 hours awake, it worked!!
As another has already said the amount of hydric acid they put in substances used in "homeopathy" is simply unacceptable. If you can be right about one thing please let it be to stay away from this horrible chemical. Just saying consumption of hydric acid is linked to some serious problems, it's unbelievable what we let into our bodies for the sake of mainstream 'science'.
+Steve Nunyerbuisness It is a statistical fact that 100% of all people who consume hydric acid will die. WE MUST SPREAD THE WORD!
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Kurzgesagt i think it's great that you've obtained funding to do that. Meanwhile, i'll just await your regular videos as and when they appear. Your videos are always interesting, not to mention very very well made.
Sellout .. just kidding ... U do u kurzgesagt
I dont really mind if the video is in german, since its got superior quality. But I'd be very happy if you just make subtitles for it.
I grew up with homeopathy. Any time I was sick, my mom would open up this huge book about homeopathy and researched what about my symptoms. Also, when the illness didn't go away or wasn't clear she talked about consulting with an expert on the topic. After learning about the actual process of how globuli is made it took a while for me to accept that it's all just placebo - even though I normally tend to question everything I'm being told. Just goes to show how strong some belief can become ingrained if that's what you grew up with.
then you're not the child your Mother is proud of .. shame
@@MurphyTheOldMan How's that a shame?
Doctors ask you even minute questions to know your sypmptoms better,as homeopathy works on symptoms,If the symptoms match the medicine ,the treatment is sure,,If does not match the symptom,no treatment. That is the reason they ask you several question just for correct medicine selection. It is not to have any time pass with you,, you believe in Allopath statement about Homeopathy,that is Placebo. Have research then have any opinion, first action of Homeopathy is Placebo which is brain control,,it does not rest on Placebo only,,further it proceeds to the other functions in order to cure the disease.Hope you 7nderstand
Its not placebo, it works, energy imprint on molecules.
@@thornyturtleranch4ui believe thats true
Homeopathy took the dragon scroll from kung fu panda too literally.....
*"To make something special, u just believe it's special. There is no secret ingredient."*
And it works for simpler ailments
Well it’s not going to work for anyone who watched this now
@@thomas_2the_lynott146 it can still work. I think placebo is subconscious related. Even if you consciously know its ineffective, your subconscious mind might still beleive it works.
UA-cam has a seizure when you were entering your username
wtf is wrong with your name?
I love the “dont hug me in scared” clock.
Omg same here!!
Nossa, eu olhei duas vezes pra ter certeza que vi direito!
@@ThiagoMoura18 kkkkk
where? edit: nvm i see
I have scrolled down to the comments only to search for this one 😂
You can't make a video without mentioning black hole, can you?
Black holes are tight!
@@FuckGoogle2 yes. Yes they are
Its like how Ceave can't go a video without mentioning money
@@FuckGoogle2 Understood that reference!
Well it is super easy, barely an inconvenience
My mom had a plastic pill case that held a lot of tiny bottles of homeopathy pellets and would give them to me when I was feeling pain or discomfort. I didn’t really believe they were medicine even at that time, but the act of her giving me the homeopathy showed that my mom cared and sympathized for me and I think that made me feel better mentally.
Thankfully my mom only used homeopathy for minor stuff like stomach aches or growing pains and took me to the doctor for more serious ailments, so I only have fond memories of homeopathy.
my mom had the exact same kit
That's an excellent example of the placebo effect. Really. No sarcasm. And children are excellent candidates for placebo effect treatments given how little ability they have to distinguish a minor ailment from a major injury.
Same with me, except that my mom was the doctor itself, so she had an entire collection of medicines.
I stay far away from medical doctors… trained by big pharma who just want to sell toxic drugs that do not promote health. No money in that. I use homeopathy and have seen it work winders on myself, and my family. I was going to study homeopathy and chose wholistic nutrition instead. Real Food including herbs etc is the only medicine we need, along with healthier lifestyle, and not the garbage being sold as ‘food’.
How can it be placebo for other animals though? So many do not understand energy, the life force that exists in everything. Just because it’s not understood by many doesn’t make it false. People believe in myth-illogical ‘gods’ for pete’s sake…created in minds who knew nothing about creation, evolution back then. So much has been discovered that people couldn’t fathom…think about it.
"Homeopath IS big pharma"
*TOP 10 ANIME PLOT TWIST*
:o
"Momma needs her medicine" - Vodka.
Hail hydra!
You've become the very thing you swore to destroy
betrayals of humanity?
Takes a sip of ocean water.
*i have learned the secrets of the planet*
You also drank sh*t water.
This is like the school nurse...
As he swallowed a drop of ocean water, the sky went black. Lightning sprang from his body. His eyes turned radiant white as he levitated, and with a maniacal laugh, he bellowed:
"I am the centrifuge of all the matter on earth! Every atom turns at my command! Nothing can stop me"
Suddenly he curls up, sweating, sickly pale, and the shit eschews out of him like a riot hose.
"...except apparently every E. Coli bacterium that has ever lived"
*coughs* fkin salt
Rengoku trippin
"Faith can move mountains,
but sugar water can't cure cancer"
Truth.
Now I have a craving for chocolate donuts.
Sad but true...
Except it probably can, if you have faith in the sugar water. Working at an alternative practice, the amount of times I've heard of cancers, disorders, and diagnosed diseases that were "obviously not real, since you're better now" from peoples GP is absurd.
I'm not saying homeopathy/water directly cures or helps anything beyond hydration. What I'm saying is, homeopathics fit a niche that provides actual help to people. It is not a cold remedy. I have seen patients who have been through several chemo plans w/o help, and come back from a vision quest healthy. The positives that come with a positive outlook are undeniable, and plentiful.
u will see in next few years cancer will not gonna b so big its a scam on vast level a lot of money associate in this business
Considering your grammar I can tell you're very intelligent and know what you're talking about.
One thing I absolutely love about these videos are there is always a beautiful and meaningful message at the end of the video.
Had eczema on the toes and scalp for 8 years. Got fed up with it from year 3, but couldn't do anything because i was a kid. The homeopathic doctor kept telling that it has a tendency to bounce back. I had a miserable school life because of this disease. Eczema on the scalp meant no social life as i was embarrassed to the ground. I couldn't eat many things because the fu@king doctor advised against them, like curd, limes, tamarinds, onions and what not. Got out of home in 11th class. Visited the best University hospital in the city. Was Cured in 3 months. 9 years on today, it hasn't bounced back.
Very sorry to hear about the miserable time you had when younger. I know how much eczema can degrade quality of life. I'm glad to know that with appropriate treatment you got so much better.
Getting out of home cured you. Not the big hospital. Bet you didn't go back home. Thats why you're still cured 9 years on.
DBox Ers
Mainstream medicine is just medicine that’s been made in the most efficient safe and proven form. Herbal remedies simply contain chemicals which are also used in a purer form in regular scientific medicine. Crystal healing and astrology just bubkis, neither rocks or colossal balls of plasma many light years away care about your “chakra alignment” or your “spiritual journey”
Ravenclaw . No mention of chakra alignment or spiritual journey in my reply. So you brought up imaginative & fictional points to be argumentative. Says a lot about where you will end up with an attitude like that. And, additionally, if you think Big Pharma cares about you, you really do need some enlightenment.
@@dboxers1164 its true that they don't care about your well being. but hey atleast they really work unlike some pseudo scam
Now that Futurama joke makes so much more sense.
"I've got a degree in Homeopathy!"
"You've got a degree in bologna."
Fun fuct I literally got a degree in Bologna
@@DarthDawydh cool in what
@@ingamingpc1634 Bolognetics
@@Zomby_Woof cool
Robert Franz
The genetics of bologna
ah yes, diluting things makes them more potent. I remember that lesson in chemistry class. It came right after the one about how snorting thermite and then igniting it will give you super strength.
Wiki: Hormesis.
Is _that_ why I don't have superpowers yet? I haven't snorted thermite? Well hot damn, I wish someone would've told me this earlier, I'll try it now!
THE best superhero background story.
if you mix fuel, metal oxide and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at over 2000 degrees Celsius. Hot enough to cut through any barrier known to mankind. Throw in some C4 into the mix, and you've got one hell of a combination
- Thermite 2015
That’s how you become Iron Man, right?
Had bronchitis for 6 years. Took homoeopathic medicine for 1 year and I'd get better during a particular season and then had attack again. It got cured this year when I moved away from Delhi. Turns out it was pollen and pollution causing it. Took me a while to realise the entire situation. Turns out the belief that "I can get better" does wonders. As I'm sure it did in 1800s for people when proven remedies were non existent
In Organon of medicine it's written that the physician should also focus on the cause of disease and he should remove that cause. In your case pollen and bad quality of air was the cause of your bronchitis.
The simple point of Hahnemann was that why we drug a person if he can be cured by removing the exciting cause of the disease. If you would have went to an allopath then he would have prescribed you anti allergy, anti inflammatory and medicines which can dilate your bronchi. So removing the exciting cause is better than making your body a dump ground of medicine.
@@Pixelated_Mind What if you remove all causes and the problem still exists?
How frequently did you get bronchitis?
It's very similar for me. I used to get asthma randomly throughout the year, but after continuing homeopathy for like 2 years, and after COVID, it's only got restricted to only the late autumn to early winter days. For the remaining I'm completely fine no backlashes👍
"My doctor prescribed me these cigarettes for my asthma but I still have dyspnea"
Sugar water can't cure cancer? Well not with that attitude buddy...
..what? I think ya missed the joke
Of course sugar can cure and even prevent cancer! Proof: everyone in my family has a massive sweet tooth, and not one of us has cancer. Check mate, big pharma!!111!
Modern medicine can cure cancer( early stages) my motherhad cancer and she is well and good now.
Rebellum1 Don't you assume that you're just lucky? 😁 Template thinking...
Sarcasm is a major component of today's speech. It is now at a rise. Also sugar causes cancer. Due to the way sucrose is broken down and it feeds cancerous cells. Oncogenes do exist. ATP synthesis is valuable. But causes lots of issues too. There is reason we consume Antooxidatens.
Not directing the info at you madam but at the other guy. If he thinks sugar isn't that bad for you. Or if he knows then hurray. More knowledge for everyone
The best quote ever, "faith can move mountains, but sugar water can't cure cancer"
christians be like ""You had us on first half, not gonna lie"
Sugar water has actually cured cancer... Placebo effect, check at the spontanious remission database... Inform yourself
@@agctony123 Many of us know what the placebo effect is , but I am not sure about the part when you said "cured cancer". The person no longer had cancer without doing chemoterapy ? Doctors use the placebo effect example when the person has a severe head ache but he/she has no real disease,they will convince him/her that they will give him a very strong medicine which will cure his head ache but instead it's just a sugar tablet . We had a neighbor who said that their cancer was cured because of some "miraculous plant" who was believing in all this homeopathic bs,saying that he never did and chemoterapy .He kept bragging about this on the internet etc. but died next month (I don't know the person but my parents do and told me about this).
No no no, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
I would really like to see something like this on astrology. I have a few friends who swear by it. Once I saw a girl at a party crying in the corner, when I asked if she was ok she told me that she had to break up with her boyfriend earlier because they had "incompatible zodiac signs".
Oh damn that sounds aweful
People were stupid and and made assumptions. Humanity didn't know better. But now that we turned away from assumption, and turned towards logic and evidence, people are just ignorant and practically retarded.
Darwinism should be better at its job lol
@@__________________________4781 ethics have destroyed natural selection
@@staringgasmask false, ethics are a result of natural selection. look up the evolution of cooperation.
Oh, I hate homeopathy with burning passion. I once got a staphilococcus that kept spreading as my dear mother kept tugging me around healers and fed sugar pills. It got to the point of my eyes welding shut with pus every morning and having actual troubles eating because my lips were crusted with pus and skinless underneath - and I'm pretty sure like half of my mental illnesses come from that experience. Thank god and that one cat for inventing antibiotics and thank my grandma for taking me to an actual doctor. The infection was subdued in like a week after a month of unchecked spreading. Anyways, if I see another homeopathy affictionado I will start swinging - these hands held trust and respect at some point, maybe the trace amounts will be felt.
Your mother may have loved you but she was negligent.
What an insult to people who've actually gone through real things
@@mercuryfillings8576 You don't have to compare one person's trauma to another's.
There will always be someone in a worse situation. That doesn't mean the rest of us should be invalidated.
Everyone's experience is real and we all have the right to be heard. If you don't care about someone else's troubles, you can just keep scrolling. ❤️
Well I had PCOS and it got cured with homeopathic medicines. It took some time but it worked.
@@lego7315 mostly likely cured by lifestyle changes and food eating habits which is the only cure for PCOS
The best point this video makes isn't whether homeopathy is bunk, of course it is. No, the best point it makes is about the modern healthcare industry needing to address psychological needs as much as homeopaths do.
Bill Malcolm Judging by the rest of the comments, you're the only person who actually watched the video.
You're absolutely right! That's the essence of the video
I think a lot of people just didn't watch the end
Bill Malcolm you're absolutely correct! Thats what I also noticed in this video!!
not really possible, I mean really expensive doctors take care of you, but then you can't feed your family and get in lots of debt so you start cooking meth which is also a problem :/
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I feel you on that one man, and I don't even make videos.
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BanditRants I see your comments everywhere, but I must say you're pretty fucking good at making videos. Not as good as Kurzgesagt, but that's nothing to be ashamed of since no one is.
+PewdiePie7281 Obvious troll is obvious.
BanditRants I COMPLETELY FEEL YOU
Homeopathy is so last-gen. I do Pizzapathy now.
Every time I have a headache, I eat a pizza tonno and about 1 to 20 hours later, my headaches are gone. Like they never existed. OK, sometimes my headaches get worse. That's how I know that the pizza is actually working, that's the so called initial worsening. But I just eat another pizza tonno and it usually gets better.
But you can't just eat pizza tonno, that depends on what pizza type you are. You should get a pizza type consultation done first, to make sure you take the right pizza. With a friend of mine, tonno doesn't work and he has to use cardinale.
Also, if a pizza doesn't work for some reason, it's not because the pizza isn't a cure for headaches, it probaby was not stored properly or the store you got it at interrupted the freezing chain. These things should definitely only be handled by professionals and not treated like it was just some foodstuff.
Those pizzas are made by a company here called "Dr. Oetker", as you can see in the name, it's been developed by a doctor. Still, therapeutic pizzas are still not covered by medical insurances because of a conspiracy by the pharma corporations who know that nobody would ever touch their expensive pills if people finally realized that all they have to do is eat tasty pizzas!
And don't you dare tell me it's just imagination and placebo effect. HE WHO CURES IS RIGHT!
(and yes, just in case... this is satire)
And don't forget, if you see studies proving pizza doesn't work, don't be fooled. Proof is subjective and about what you experience, not these thousands of not-you people being carefully observed by "impartial" shills 🙃 Your anecdotes about pizza are evidence and your body is the exception to whatever these "studies" say. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't opened their minds yet to how good alternatives like pizza can be. (Also satire ofc).
@@chocolizard678 Studies... in labs... no wonder that stuff doesn't work. Pizza has a memory and it remembers if you cook it in an oven that heated your petri dishes before!
Underrated comment 😄.
Their spinach pizza really helps lift your mood, improve appetite, general well-being, and has been proven to cure the common cold over and over again by numerous studies!
@@Tharmin.124 spinach on pizza is the equally evil brother of pinapples on pizza
6:57
attention and empathy from a doctor did make a huge difference in my mental well being.
Many doctors refused to listen to my little problems , until one day i found a doctor who would listen to every single one of my problems and even noticed the symptoms on me. Now i really trust that doctor.
As I learned in med school, doctor-patient relationships play a huge role on the placebo effect and healing. The placebo effect is not just a psychological phenomenon. It triggers neurophysiological systems in ways that aid healing (or worsen it in the case of nocebo). A funny thing worth mentioning is that the placebo effect has been observed to be stronger if the doctor consulted is wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope around his neck. This augments the effect even if said “doctor” is not an actual medical doctor.
Ok but that was the clock from "Don't hug me I'm scared"...
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING
I had to check the original video to see I'm not crazy and yes, only a few details differ. Coincidence? Didn't think so.
Time is a tool you can put on the wall
Or wear it on your wrist
The past is far behind us;
The future doesn't exist
@@davinky6114 Flashbacks to existential crisis episode:
Me: *Cursed screaming*
*Time is important and I am a clock.*
5:50
"Time is a tool you can put on the wall or wear it on your wrist
The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist"
Had to scroll down way too far for this.
Scrub Scrub Scrub til' the water's BROWN!
I don't get it.
Time is a ruler to measure the day.
It doesn't go backwards, only one way.
Watch it go round like a merry-go-round.
Going so fast like a merry-go-round.
What's it from?
Don't drop the homeopathy bottle outside while it rains, you will create a very potent homeopathy flood
"Very potent homeopathy flood" = "Delusion deluge"
Yes u can use that flood water to cook food and beware it also consist of shit
😂😂
YES
you won't
I've been suffering from post-trauma knee pains, and have been taking homeopathy for several years. That doctress saw me the same way you described: was very attentive and friendly, for a long time was asking me about my problems. I kinda felt better after every visit... but in general I couldn't get cured.
A pain was lastly finished when I went to a good experienced surgeon and passed through the operation (they polished spikes, welded my meniscus (which turned out to be broken), strenghten my ligament and so on). How much money and time did I lose for a homeopathy! Of course, surgery is expensive, scary and painful, and recovering is long, but at least it works.
I try to limit how often I make homeopathy jokes, because it makes them stronger.
XD
most underrated joke in this section
This is almost not funny because it's true xD
That was good
Smart!
original homeopathy be like "okay, so you need to listen to a set of rules that basically is a very healthy lifestyle, but here's a pill which cures you and totally not the diet."
I'm still not certain whether it's about having a very healthy lifestyle (because stuff like not napping or sitting is a bit weird), or about creating an essentially impossible to obey instruction, which you can then use as defense when the medicine didn't work, because it's almost certain they made at least one 'mistake' somewhere.
Honestly, the second version is way better. It forces less stress on the patient.
Reading that sentence makes you realize how hard it is to change a person’s behavior for health.
Reading that sentence makes you evaluate the health care’s efforts to change patient behavior. One comes to the conclusion that doctors haven’t yet mastered this art.
After you closely read your conclusion, you realize how similar to the one in the video.
@@Alblaka That is probably the key. Set up extremely strict rules that, if followed, could give the result that you can then attribute to your fake pills. Then if your fake pills don't work, blame the victim for their own failure to follow your rules.
Why do you sciecy schmuks believe that placebo effects work then?..double standard piece of shts..
@@riyuzakhi placebo effect has existed for thousands of years my guy
Only Kurzgesagt can include blackholes in a video about Homeopathy
Would like to talk about our lords and saviors, the mass driver system and tethers in the Venus video?
I mean homeopathy already has plotholes so...
@@sogasakoo Oh, and maybe that plot hole is as big as a black hole...
@@ericmars9354 or dense
@@villager1831 That's even better.
I like how 10X sounds like a concentration but actually means dilution. Tricky, tricky….
basically expensive water
sol walker what lol
Some (very specific homeopathics and plants) have compounds that do somthing. All others are are just placebo
@sol walker you fucked up the joke lol it's dihydrogen monoxide
For those wondering dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for Water
Fiji water
Being against vaccines while strongly believing in 'like cures like' principle... isn't this the most ironic thing ever?
what a wacky world
Antivaxx... What I find funny is that if you show a scientist proof that he is wrong, he'll analyse it and change his mind. However proving antivaxx/homeopathy fans they're wrong simply reinforces their beliefs
@@charans6873 The whole concept of vaccination is to put viral molecules or parts of molecular structures into the body so the immune system can learn to recognize the virus before the infection. It doesn't get any closer to 'like' than this. Heck, in some cases it is the inert virus itself what they use as antigene. Lol.
@@Zenedoboz i know all this already.. lol
You need to study first.. like in homoeopathy is the SYMPTOM. healthy human body not having any symptom cannot be considered as like.
I know you will still not get its ok it happens.. you need to take baryta carb
@@charans6873 I'm not sure you can tell the difference, but reading up on something online does not count as studying. Just as taking a sugar pill will not make your brain develop. So take your chill pill and leave the medicine to the grownups, ok?
My parents had a good relation with a Homeopathy Doctor. I too liked him. Whenever I or my brother fell ill, my parents would take me to him. I think the reason behind it was their medicine had sweet sugar balls which could be swallowed easily instead of tablets.I am thankful that my parents atleast completed my vaccinations.
Now my father doesn't trust Homeopathy anymore cuz they were not able to cure his disease for months. My father's condition worsen as the months passed and he got himself admitted to a Hospital. He is fine now.
Your father was probably filled with toxins and other poisons and trash that the herbs were fighting against. Some of those instructions given by homeopathy type people are indeed ridiculous but some of them are necessary.
fake
@@utentesenzavoglia1475 seems pretty convincing to me, I've had those sugar balls, I love them. Medicine from actual taste like expired strawberry syrup ,yucky, which probably means the medicine is legit and sugar balls taste too good to be true
I prefer one thing more then the sugar balls, liquid paracetamol cuz it was in a taste that just appealed to me and holy hell did I love it
@@ADuxk Us lmao I have a weak lymphatic system cuz of drinking that shit too much
This video beautifully expresses my thoughts on homeopathy and the problem with modern medicine. As a doctor, I see how patients are treated as numbers and not people. Homeopathy is a scam but it addressess the need people have to be listened to and validated. Every day I have patients tell me how they feel better after simply talking to me. Unfortunately that is becoming more and more rare in "modern medicine" where you're lucky to see a PA or nurse practitioner, much less a doctor.
I feel exactly the same, and it really is unfortunate because there's too many patients.
The only reason homeoscammers treat their 'patients' like that is because they're SCAMMING them for money. Not because they're curing them. Homeoscammers should be put behind bars, they are criminals, in some cases murderers, we have NOTHING to learn from them. Scam is not empathy. Every day some naive people end up dead because instead of actual medicine and diagnosis they received 'warm words' and sugar water from these bandits.
I knew a rich guy. In a conversation about the cold and flu he got fascinated when I told him I cure myself resting and eating hot soup, he couldn't believe people can be cured without expensive medicines. He also was a huge client of homeopathy, he always had tiny bottles of that stuff to avoid alergies and colds, what a nightmare for him had to be to live believing the body can't cure itself from common cold hahaha.
Wtf
When all that time he has been taking nothing more than sugar pills/sugar water, instead of actual expensive medicine.
I guess his body surely cannot cure itself of the common cold. Not without strict intake of sugar water, at least.
Probably the alcohol in the sugar pills must have cured him. Brandy they say is soothing for cold and cough!
A fool and his money are soon parted
People thinking we have to pump ourselves full of antibiotics every time we get a little cold is how we got superbugs.
The idea of Placebo is fascinating.
Nocebo is even crazier to me.
As a medical student, it is part of our training.
It is indeed a real and actual part of treatment.
SDG Danny yeah. I mean it has no right to work whatsoever! :)
Yeah, there are people with Parkinson's who can stop shaking (temporarily) through placebo effects. It's definitely a real effect, it's just caused by your brain instead of by anything external.
In a Nutshell screwed up big time on this one. They are presenting placebo as meaning the power of belief or something. This is a big misconception. That is not and has never been the purpose of a placebo win in a test. The placebo wing is there to account for biases and anomalous data. Placebo does not heal and there is no science indicating that it does. This is such a misunderstood part of science.
Kurzgesat is a better version of the infographics show.
I feel that it's like iconographics for smart people
Infographic is bad copy of Kurzagesahagsgshblabalabalsgs in a nutshell
Agree.
@@kamalkumar7133 lol
Implying the infographics show is good
I’m not a fan of homeopathy, but I agree on using homemade/natural solutions for *minor* problems, like milk and honey for a throat ache, or a bit of hot soup and rest for a fever (obviously if it’s only 37-38 C). A fundamental part of it is not to be excessively worried or stressed because of something like a runny nose.
Everyone likes to believe in home remedies untill is an actually serious disease.
That's Ayurveda basically... On the other hand, Homeopathy is a scam !
That is fine, has nothing to do with homopeopathy though
Milk, honey and soup have active ingredients. Or should I say - they have ingredients.
that’s naturopathy
The creator of Homeopathy created the rules that helped the patient more than the actual treatment itself.
The main reason homeopathy got a foothold in medicine. The guy who made up that water has memory and will cure you, also forced their patients to have a minimum hygiene, stop consuming tobacco, alcohol and hard to digest foods, etc... No wonder so many of his patients would have improvements. They were also pretty hydrated.
And at the same time he had plenty of reasons/excuses if it didn't work. I mean, who is able to follow all of those rules? You can be pretty sure that, after a week, your patient will have broken at least one rule which means he can always say it didn't work because of this.
But Patient must be fool in the first place for it to work?
Stomach upsets , swellings in lymph nodes , etc . has been cured for me by homeopathy .
So I guess the perfect solution is -- homeopathy for mild disorders and original medicines for more severe cases .
I should protect my placebo at all costs
@@jujuman9431 Yeah, homeopathy cured my cold after only 1 week of treatment /s
The world needs to watch this.
Bernie Sanders needs to watch this...among other Kurzgesagt videos.
Agreed. This was a very good video about an interesting subject.
Rapha Pinheiro
Along with all the other videos by this channel
The people who believes in homeopathy will very likely to extreme even more their position after watching this. There is no room for reason when talking about beliefs.
True. I grew up with homeopathy, but we used it for non severe cases like a small fever or just a cold. And for that it always worked because of the well known Placebo effect. For larger stuff we always go to a normal doctor to get diagnosed (Awesome German Healthcare system ;) ) and then get actual medicine for that. Not every Person that uses Homeopathy is against the normal medicine ;)
I have been receiving homeopathic treatments at home.
It's really simple. I grab a cup and fill it with water from a tap.
I was making fun of homeopathy.
In which case I'll grab one grain of sugar and dilute it in one litre of water.
You know how to make tap? Hit me up fam I need the recipe
Cuzeg Spiked It could also be that the steam clears your sinuses slightly.
Yes, it's called fluoride treatment. It works wonders for the teeth... lol
I grew up with Homeopathy, whether it was placebo or something else, I recall one instance of having a cold, all the symptoms. Our doctor gave me something and within seconds, it all disappeared. Never had it work like that before or after that one time. It was magical. All that being said, I swear by Nux Vomica, works wonders for anything related to the digestive system. Nausea, heartburn, upset stomach, diarrhoea, constipation, winds. Well, its always worked for me.
Sounds like a wonder. And is therefore completely worthless.
Is there any cure of deafness??
@@C_Beckerbro take 50m potency of nux vomica or carcinocine 20drops in water morning evening and night then come back if you live after 5days😅😂
Once in high school I dated this girl, who’s mom gave me this odd “homeopathic medicine” called “oscillococcinum” or something like that when i had the flu. I remember it tasting exactly like sugar. I did some research on its own ingredients and sure enough, it was sugar. And supposedly mixed with a diluted drop of water that had duck liver in it but diluted to the point to where it had not one molecule of duck liver left and this was supposed to cure the flu. But when I tried explaining this to the mom and my girlfriend I was treated with anger. That was in 2008 or so. I remember watching James Randi and Reading quack watch articles on that type of “medicine”. Good times…
sugar-y and alcohol-y
But did it cure your flu though?
@@navneeths459 No. it lasted as long as any other flu and went away on its own, like any other annual flu.
This video and your comment have made me wonder what would the efficacy of these treatments be if they didn't dilute the ingredients so much.
@@downfromkentuckeh there isn’t any efficacy. Duck liver has nothing to do with the flu and isn’t proven to cure anything. Even if it WASNT diluted a million times over. The fact that the parent company BOIRON is allowed to continue to do business is an affront to humanity and medical science.
I like how you were still able to bring up black holes in this topic.
And unknown huge numbers like 1 novemdecillion (10^60).
7:42 "Faith can move mountains..."
Faith only moves mountains if enough believers are willing to actually pick up a shovel.
@redlegagent But when something good falls in your lap? GOD CARES AFTER ALL!!11!one!!
haha good one
That is the literal meaning of the saying faith can move mountains ;)
@redlegagent
Fun fact: The phrase "God helps those who help themselves," is never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Just more proof that Christians don't even read their own book and make shit up lol.
Oh
I had sinusitis and my nose used to be blocked every day ,i wasnt able to live without nasal sprays , after taking homeopathy since then i forgot about my nasal congestion, it worked like magic .
Bro my father and brother have that problem its not curing with homeopathy also
good for you👍
Can you share the medicine name?
I had a post-nasal drip and regular coughing issue . I used a lot of allopathy but it persisted. After few months I turned to homeopath and got cured by it within a month. In my childhood I had nose blockage which was cured by homeopathy.
@@prernabharti1658 go to an actual doc
"How is your dog named?"
"Homeopathy"
"Can I pet him, does he bite?"
"Yeah, he doesn't do anything"
Paguo
Every genius was really ignorant on certain other subjects. Skeptics of homeopathy prove this every day.
@@vismedicatrixnature2595 r/woosh
@@vismedicatrixnature2595 whoosh
@@vismedicatrixnature2595 And yet none of that has anything to do with A: homeopathy does not work. We've tested it. B: the mechanism by which it is claimed to work is anti science, and essentially 'magic.' and C: it does not work. We've tested it.
Really, if it worked, drug companies would *OWN* it.
Instead of making expensive drugs and selling them, they's just mix stuff with pure water and dilute, and sell that. Much cheaper.
GENIUS!!!!
I stopped homeopathic medicine when I spent 5 miserable years naturally curing my severe eczema with no success ....... then got a prescription of steroid cream and it went away in 24 hours
For eczema Homeopathy, Allopathy nothing worked for me. Ayurveda cured me
@@subhampal3787 Ayurveda is allopathy?? According to the guy who created the word allopathy, whatever that isn't homeopathy comes under allopathy
@@sdscsharisro9213 Ayurveda is completely different from allopathy.
@@sdscsharisro9213 Ayurveda is Eastern traditional medicine outside purview of allopathy and homeopathy
Thanks homeopathy for treatment of my four years of fungal infection 😍.....otherwise I will not even alive Today...I m just blessed with homeopathy medicine ❤️....Thanks to doctor
Pharmacists who reccomend homeopathic remidies should be paid with envalopes that once held money.
Oh
BRILLIANT IDEA!!!
Excellent comment. Then they should show them the place on the wall where their License used to be.
What about situation when soma Karen demands from doctor any medicine recommendation like antibiotics to cure her son's flu? I know that homeopathy is placebo but it has some use scenarios.
@@ivan4ikok - Homeopathy has ZERO MEDICAL EFFICACY. If you demand SNAKE-OIL go to a Medieval Carnival which doctor.
My grandad had studied homeopathy, and practiced it just for close family. I don't know the science behind it but I have seen this sugar water cure extreme allergies which were going on for decades. From scalp infections to chronic urticaria, it could be placebo but as someone who had tried all medicines and given up hope and was forced by parents to try it, with absolutely 0 faith it in working out, it actually did help.
I want to study it in the future too, just to understand the sheer logic behind how it works. It might not replace modern medicine and it's possible that you might need the appendectomy more than sugar pills, but personally, whenever modern medicine raised its hands in defeat, this alternate medicine has worked wonders.
yes , it gave me a new life .
Yes it works wonders for some chronic diseases, the homeopathy doctor my father knows has Vitiligo, and it he self medicated and it took him 10 years of consistent use for his skin to return to normal. A friend of his who had the same issue tried homepathy for a couple months and then switched to allopathic medicine had it spread to all his body.
@@manu1434uis there any cure of deafness in homeopathy
My mom died from cancer recently- she smoked for close to 20 years, but quit for over 10. She never went to a doctor, unless it was a serious injury, She never had a mammogram once in her life and she had never looked into the early warning signs of lung cancer, which they could've caught long before it had spread to her brain. (She passed at 60 and they begin X-ray screening at 50).
Guess what?
She was huge into homeopathic medicine. She took dozens of different tablets, claiming they were all healthy and beneficial. She became incredibly OCD about what kind of foods to eat and didn't trust anything that wasn't organic. She also did a bunch of weird treatments, like "light" therapy, and god knows what else. I watched my mom succumb to cancer in 7 months flat, because she didn't even want to do Chemotherapy and never tried any other options that were available. She also spent probably the last of her money on "CBD oil" claiming that she would "get over" the cancer that way. All of that stemmed from her medical ignorance and distrust of doctors. She was also an anti-vaxxer, believed in aliens, and thought "rocks" carried healing properties.
The point is- its fake. Homeopathy is all bullshit, and purely anecdotal. How you feel about something doesn't help you fight cancer or improve your health. Go to your doctor, get a check up, ask them to check out that weird mole, tell them you have a strange cough, whatever it takes. Go to your medically licensed doctor before its too late. Don't lead yourself down that path- don't be gullible, look into things on your own, then ask a freaking doctor about it. They will gladly answer your questions.
And yes- before any of you weirdo "Doctor bad" people reply about your miracle success stories, or how your loved ones are "beating" cancer with turmeric root or whatever- she did EVERYTHING. It didn't work. End of story.
Oh man ,.... rip brother ... This is why we need awareness
i hope your mom rests in peace
but who said aliens dont exist? we just dont know that yet
Edit (changed spelling for peace)
Yeah, these stories are exactly why doctors give both real medicine and homeopathy, the Last one is just to maximise the placebo effect, but we must never forget real treatment
A friend of my mother believed in that too, she's gone now.
The placebo effect is absolutely real, it just turns out cancer is really fucking strong. That's why people are afraid of it.
Kurzgesagt: "But many are more extreme like 30C."
Oscillococcinum (200C): "Hold my beer"
That exists?!
Yes, it does exist. It's not a joke even though I wish it would be.
all ur doing is mixing water With water
@@CristianMartinez-rg9sz Q potencies exist. That means 1:50000.
*Hold my homeopathic beer
It's all just placebo effect. I remember a relative of mine having frequent BAD migraines after her first kid was born. She used to take homeopathic medicines. One time she asked me to bring her her "healing water" but I didn't know where it was and didn't want to ask her because she was usually PISSED af during her migraines. So I just brought her tap water without letting her know.
She was fine ten minutes later.
Could also have been dehydrated.
It wasn't probably the homeo "medicine". From personal experience homeo meds have a distinct taste, a little tangy
@@user-mgtp I'm dying 😂😂💀💀
@@blarg2429 said "Could also have been dehydrated"
Could also have been a large paracetamol leak into county reservoir
All you scientism adepts are taught that everything can be explained with lense clouds, weather ballons and other childish hypothesis...at least until Navy said lense clouds were NOT lense clouds
@@user-mgtp honestly, why does anyone take any medicine at all? it's already all right there, in the tap.
Homeopathy is useful for this: when a doctor or a pharmacist recommend it, you instantly get to know how much they understand about science.
that's untrue
don't you know scientists are just normal people having their own beliefs? about anything, which isn't scientifically proven
And this doesn't make them magically lose all their knowledge
@@_capuThey dont "magically lose knowledge" because they never had any if they believe in homeopathy after completing medical school
@@aloedg3191You must know a lot of great homoeopathic doctors who are still very popular for their works used to be an antipathic doctor and had lots of hate towards homoeopathy and they started to know homoeopathy to criticize it. But later when they understood homoeopathy they became great and did a lot of works
One thing i must say is homoeopathy is mostly unknown to most of the people even this video is talking nonsense. Homoeopathy has its science and i can say if you all know about the modern science well and just change your perspective then you all will understand how homoeopathy works. It's just lack of actual information in the internet that's spreading this hate and making people say that homoeopathy is bullshit.
@@anikkamila7434 Or it's because it's faith-based nonsense that's been tested and has shown to not do anything beyond placebo. It's not unknown, it's just people who have faith it works won't change their minds, and when pointed out that it's nonsense they get upset and think people are hating them. If the "information" you say exists of it actually working beyond placebo, please present it. Otherwise, you are just another irrational faith-based believer who thinks they hold neglected truth while completely disarmed of evidence.
I love the "Don't hug me, I'm scared" clock easter-egg.
@Jocabed Armada ayo chill
I was looking for if anyone else caught that!
time is a tool you put on the wall or wear it on your rizt.
@@georgieboye167 the past is far behind us, the future doesn’t exist
@@synthryuji5149 But what's the time? Its quarter to nine, time to have a bath!
The second one, mostly. Selling people overpriced placebo, especially when a more effective real treatment isn't being sought as a result, is health endangering fraud.
HisRoyalCarlness This comment is very correct!
Yea but it wouldnt be fraud if people learned it themselves
I am
What if such a highly valued placebo helps people get better who would otherwise have gotten worse and died or stayed in great pain and suffering for the rest of their life?
A lot of people run to the doctor as soon as they get a cold or flu for which the doctor prescribes antibiotics which do nothing to cure the cold and in the long run may hurt you. Every time someone takes an antibiotic the less effective it will become later on and breeds super bugs. Giving the patient a placebo just to shut them up is a better option.
I loved how hard Kurzgesagt was trying not to completely obliterate homeopathy.
They were thinking of their comment section. They clearly didn't want to leave it a scorched wasteland
@D the hell are you saying?
@D oh so you're one of _them_
@D i have nothing to elaborate on people who deny the effectiveness of medicine
@D they aren't perfect but neither they are the root of all evil
As comedian Tim Minchin once put it in his beat poem Storm;
"If you can show me that, say, Homeopathy works then I will change my mind. I will spin on a fucking dime. I'll be embarrassed as hell, and I'll run through the streets shouting 'It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it! Water has *memory*!' And while its 'memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo its had in it!"
0:37 look in the house window. Wow, just wow.
Good catch! I totally missed that first watch
What is it?
@@aliasif5393 it's the "this is fine"dog
thsi is fine - bird
0:40 is closer to the mark
Also that’s lit
Faith can move mountains , but sugar water can't cure cancer
- Kurzgesagt
Do even know the meaning of cancer?
People like you really chutiya
@@dr.manojkpatil405 go fuck yourself
Dr. Manoj K Patil literally shut up
@@viniciusdonadio948
& you go fuck with steriods & antibiotics
@@XqClovr You cant shut the facts
Homeopathy works!
In comparison to treating them with arsenic, bloodletting and trapping them in a room with people with the plague.
r/woosh
@@gabrielrosales7559 Yep. At the time, homeopathy worked, because the 'medicine' was so lethal.
Homeopathy [not poisoning patients or making them sicker] looked good in comparison.
Now we have real medicine based on science, imperfect though it may be.
@Aiden Tsang r/woooosh
@Aiden Tsang r/woosh
@Aiden Tsang stupid shit homeopathy works and many people's are healed by homeopathy I have seen many people's
the video is legit!
the quality of your video is off the wall.
it fills my intellectual curiosity.
i am over the moon.
Homeopathy is the air guitar of medicine.
I once overdosed on my homeopathic medicine when I accidentally skipped a dose
Soldiers in wars drunk homeopathic solutions with the blood of their enemies to hate them in a stronger way
I guess skipping a dose momentarily cured you?
When i was a kid, i liked those sweet tiny pills n once i took like....15 of em when i was supposed to eat 5 once a day....n i got rashes n next day
the most underrated comment
Hahahaha
"Faith can move mountains, but sugar water can't cure cancer" - Kurzgesagt 2k18
Maybe. It's still an expression nonetheless.
Did you mean 12k18?
I think it would still be tough to move mountains even with thousands of tons of dynamite. You might need close to 10s million tons of dynamite to crack it.
12020: "BREAKING NEWS: Scientists discover cure to cancer, it's sugar water (as long as it doesn't have cancer mixed in with at 1 part per nonillion)"
2k18 means, "two thousand and eighteen" or 2018. its kind of an abbreviation
Homeopathy has always helped me all my life! Especially with skin and hormonal diseases ☺
"A pill so massive, that it would collapse into a black hole under its own mass"
ah yes classic kurzgesagt where everything is about black hole
lol
Yup❤️
as it should
That was funny as hell!
Step 1: open a homeopathy pharmacy
Step 2: just sell water
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
sucker
Hehehehe!
The world will be mine soon.
WAY TO GO DOUGHBAG.
How 2 become rich - anti-vaxxer ripoff edition
Lol
*LETS GET ON JOURNEY, A JOURNEY TROUGH TIME, TIME IS CHANGING ALL THE TIME ITS TIME TO GO TROUGH TIIIIME*
but we don't really want to
we're gonna miss our show
MAKE IT STTTOOOPPP
Holy shit i tripped tf out when i saw the clock
I saw this comment exactly during that part of the video 😂😂
im friends with my dad
The ‘it was time’ reference literally had me in tears 😂💯
Best argument I've heard for learning German yet.
Lord LunaEquie is me same
Ich weiss, ja?
Lord LunaEquie is me same
Hast du schon Fortschritte gemacht? :)
It's called subtitles, duh.
There should be one homeopath for every 10 billion people, that'll make the industry a lot more effective.
Let's cut a homeopath to a 0.8th piece!
it'll leave behind their spirit like essence.
"it'll leave behind their spirit like essence."
so would hitting them with a tank.
Hahahaha
And even he wouldn't care to laugh at this illwitted sentence of yours.
I am on a homeopathy medication. Thanks for shattering the placebo bubble.
No bro reverse placebo is even better .
My mother told me to take homeopathy for food poisoning and it did and she told me it would make me sleep.
And guess what I got sleep and just few days ago I am learning that homepathy won't make you sleep.
So ya reverse placebo is even better.
Thats placebo not reverse placebo
@@aaddiis45021 that's called a coincidence (which means there's a placeboo effect), drinking water or eating sugar pellets doesn't make ya sleepy.
water and sugar wont make you sleepy, both of them make you more energized, although sugar depends on the type. learn some shit before you insult someone kid(very likely you are, looking at both your posts)
@@aaddiis45021 lying down and closing my eyes makes me sleep too
Did you seriously throw in don't hug me I'm scared xD omg. Makes me love this channel even more
If homeopathy worked, medicine companies would make diluted medicine themselves. It would be much cheaper for them. Arguing for homeopathy is arguing that capitalism isn't that ruthlessly profit focussed.
- Randall Monroe in Xkcd 808
Interesting, and makes sense too. It's not like we're testing for lowest possible production cost or anything....
Muhammad Dimas Ariyanto tell that to my mom, I dare you
Lucas van Osenbruggen actually no they wouldn't. Since tjey wany money not a cure.
+ ollehkacb
Homeopathy solutions have much lower production costs and much higher profit margins than standard medicine.
Medicine companies would love to get in on that action. However, if they did, they would lose far more money due to class action lawsuits.
If homeopathy worked, then medicine companies could produce homeopathic medicines without fear of being sued.
xkcd? not THAT'S a reliable resource!
jk I love Randal Monroe.
"Shaking the mixture after every dilution leaves behind a spirit like essence."
*Karen has entered the chat*
I _demmand_ that you give my son your sugar water, he's got high grades and is a good kid.
i mean you can use it for minor ailment cause you know placebo
@That_ Dude
Ahahhahah
Can you please explain how the name Karen became a meme in its own right?
It's a super common white name.
White women, especially middle aged, have time to spare, seldom filling it with work or leisure: maybe they don't have a boyfriend waiting outside, a job to get back to at a certain time, and if they have children, they prefer avoiding them.
So basically we have a bored housewife living a plain life with no real outlet for their anger or stress. Yet, unlike minorities, they are used to having blind privilege, and they have been fed the great corporate lie that the customer is always right.
They're bored, stressed, and wanting control over daily life, but they can't get it elsewhere, so it's only when they purchase things or services that they exercise a feeling of power (capitalist white lie: when you spend, you're powerful. Spend more!). They can play with the idea that they are superior to employees for being the paying customer.
Since they lack (or fake that they lack) patience and empathy, as well as the ability to accept that life isn't a box of chocolates, trouble ensues. They don't see themselves as important enough, powerful enough, so they try to prove their influence or power to others/themselves by creating confrontation.
First thing would be getting into arguments and trying to win them with customer service, knowing that they have an upper hand. Then follows to try to get things for free. This leads them to feel smart or cunning. Then there's the added plus of actually getting stuff for free, and being able to say "I won."
Most companies will give people stuff to avoid dealing with them (time is money). They will give compensations without a valid reason just to avoid escalations ("I want a full refund or I'll be posting stuff on facebook and I'm super popular") or lawsuit threats, however empty.
Companies are in fact so used to it that they now hire normal employees, give them a tiny bit more power, and call them managers.
So when Karen asks to speak with your manager next time, she's not speaking to your direct boss, like she thinks she is. She's speaking with someone hired specifically to deal with people like her, who earn just a bit more than normal employees.
It's out of my hands
I'm only a clock
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine
But eventually everyone runs out of time
actual.lizard yesss
It's out of my hands,
I'm only a clock.
Get ready to take
my ten inch--
Time is a tool you put on the wall and wear it on your rizd. The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist!
I was searching for this comment after seeing the "don't touch me I'm scared" clock
@@TheRealBatabii haga there you go :D
When I was a kid, my mom often used homeopathy for my colds, and it worked well for most. But she never denied actual medication from me when needed, if I got very sick.
My favorite part was the "but homeopathy IS Big Pharma". Most users think they're "sticking it" to Big Pharma when they're just financing it. It's even sad.
Yoko Igurashi the south park episode is great on that.
And at least the 'real' big pharma is usually healing people.
Is it really big pharma though? If you take the Pharmaceutical Index off the NYSE what % is homeopathic? 10%? 1%? 0.1%? A quick google search reveals that no-one has bothered to do this calculation yet.
Just by accounting for 0.1% they're part of big pharma. There is no cut off point in size. The local butcher is also part of the meat industry. The point is that instead of seeing them as a totally different sector in the world with a headquarters hidden in the jungle with golden haired angels working for them, they're just a "pharmaceutical" company selling water.
They're sticking it to themselves; but there are many more examples of people fucking themselves, like choosing a political affiliation. Being a Democrat or Republican means nothing anymore, especially since most congressman, senators, or the prez & his cabinet are bi-partisan in their views and more likely following some form of corruption to benefit themselves personally anyway. Another prime example, believing in God, also useless, is like believing in the luck of the Irish, or bad luck after accidentally breaking a mirror. Most people are so absorbed in the world of Scientific achievement they are too stupid to either admit it or realize it, which would be confirmation bias, another example of Scientific achievement in Psychology. I'm tired; you get the point...
The proper way to pay a homeopathic practitioner: Take a coin, put it in water, take a drop of that, and give it to them
remember to stir the water so that the molecules can absorb its essence. in fact, banks will be in ruins once the public obtains this knowledge. however, why are 'they' still controlling everything in our lives? it's because the world is ruled by satan & aliens are our only hope to save humanity. with their help, we can rediscover ancient technologies like healing crysta
i felt nauseous pretending to be retarded, so i'm gonna leave it there.
The Atlantis LOL sure as shit wasn’t saved by literally water with zero atoms of any medicine
@@michaelesposito2629 PLACEBO
Dipanjan Ghosal the greatest medical breakthrough will come, when we can figure out how to trigger a placebo response.
@@michaelesposito2629 homeopathy can trigger placebo tho. It cured my tonsillitis when I was young, whereas allopathy told me to get surgery.
Last year I visited a homeopath for my acne... and I thought it would be the usual 5-10 min. chat... But the doctor spoke to me for 1 and a half hour.... He asked me about my entire medical and life history and after I got out I was like WOW... no one has ever listened to me so patiently before.. lol
How much did he charge for 1.5 hrs and pills?
so that is not about homeopathy but time and money for medical care
And how’s the acne ?
He charged me Rs. 800 (Indian) which covered the medicines and consult both. But I did not go back to him 🤣
@@sajaljain9150 did you get the result from homeopathy? im currently taking medicine for tumor and acne oily skin 🤣🤣 before that i take english medicine for 1 week it really reduce my oil production then i stopped and take homoeopath due to my father against english medicine
As a homeopathic doctor, what my mother always says is "homeopathy is the medicine for patients, not for diseases" which is why she talks for hours with her patients knowing "them" not their "disease"❤
The best thing I read today
Yeah it takes communication skills to fool the patient, because homeopathy can't.
Then why this placebo effect doesn't through so-called modern medicine?
Most of the people turn to homoeopathy after being disappointed from many practitioners of so-called modern medicine and get cured. They had no beleif or faith in homoeopathy in the begining, so they tried allopathy again and again with trmendous faith.
If the faith is the cause of the placebo effect, then why it didn't occur during allopathy management?
Most of the people come to homoeopathy after being disappointed from any medicine and they have doubts in their mind. How this so-called placebo effect which didn't act earlier, not shows results?
To answer these questions, one needs common sense, which is not common in common people. Scoience without conscience is not only fruitless, but it may be dangerous too!
@@Juicelord001
"Homeosapiens" 😉
@@Juicelord001cry kiddo.
Das hier ist der deutsche Kanal. Jedes Abo rettet ein Katzenbabyleben. Hier noch mal der link: ua-cam.com/channels/wRH985XgMYXQ6NxXDo8npw.html
siad shortly - in einer nussschale
aber warum auf Deutsch? Braucht doch niemand..
MOHAMED Der deutsche Kanal wird durch Funk (ZDF-Netzwerk) unterstützt :)
UA-cam-Deutschland Zuschauer so: “Nee, lieber noch ne Runde Fakepranks und Skandale auf UA-cam verfolgen...“
Was das problem ist.... Von der Regierung finanzierte Forschung bzw in diesem Fall das Erklären ist immer (Saats-)ideologiebehaftet.
Aber mal abwarten wie sich das entwickelt. Etwas mehr wissenschaftliches Wissen und nicht nur emotionale Kurzschlussreaktionen und ablaufen von Skripten tut der deutschen Öffentlichkeit sicher gut.
If homeopathy was true I could pour one beer in a lake and throw one hell of a party
No way.. that would be far too many molecules of alcohol per glass :P.
What you need to do is take an eye dropper, put one drop on a surface, absorb 99% of it and let the rest fall into the lake. Then you can tell the dumbasses that you have homeopathic alcohol and you can drink all the actual beer yourself.
Alessandro Millo how are you going to shake the lake?
machinegun Earthquake.
it almost means you could cure your hangover by drinking more.
Appreciate your try, but you got it wrong. According to the "alike cures alike" principle, one drop of beer on a lake should get every drunk awake and sober. But still, not diluted enough and you could not shake the dillution properly.
This is exactly why people need to learn logical reasoning and critical thinking. Without them, well, we might as well be children. I don't understand how something so rudimentary and important is still not taught in schools everywhere.
Yes !!! I've been saying that for years ! This whole fake news thing would also be much less of a problem.
Because political people that decide what is in the school books also get sponsored in the political campaign by pharmaceuticals companies that have billions of dollars profit ?
Then you'll have people claiming that their children are being brainwashed because the 'logical thinking' does not coincide with their values.
It is taught in France, but no one cares because today society learn to peoples that they are all awesome and unique, so no one thinks anymore because they thinks they deserve the world, by doing nothing. That's sad
The problem with the modern education system.
Amazing video as always, also I loved the tribute to “don’t hug me I’m scared”
"Were making our videos in German."
Oh okay, cool
"And some new ones only in german"
Welp, guess i gotta spriechen ze deutsch now
D:
They said "a number of videos that will not exist in english FOR A WHILE". I'm absolutely certain all content will be available in English at some point. Considering all the effort that goes into the animations, they simply can not NOT provide their content to their biggest audience.
its sie not ze ;)
That last part is absolutely hilarious.
Naja, kannst ja ein paar Lernfilme auf UA-cam schauen. Oder dich mit deutschen in den Kommentaren auseinandersetzen.
Ich, zumindest, biete meine Dienste an..
is that clock from "don't hug me im scared?"
Jolie K thank you! I thought it was only me!
Jolie K Was looking for this comment...
YES. MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.
lmao
I wonder if they will make more series like dhmis. Really hope they do
"Water have memories"
People peeing in the ocean : *Maniacal laugh*
Türkçe dil seçeneği için teşekkürler! Harikasınız! ❤️
According to 40 state medical boards & the FDA, prescribing a homeopathic treatment is grounds enough to lose your medical license pending extensive review.
So if that's any indication as to it's effectiveness or safety, I don't know what is.
If anything, that's an indication of the vast pharmaceutical conspiracy to repress the powers of homeopathy /s
Why would anyone who believes in the magic of toilet water, want to get a medical license?
That seems a bit harsh, if the doctor knows it's placebo and uses it for that specific reason, why should he lose his license
Jacob Nugent just give the patient a less expensive placebo
Good point
"Faith can move mountains but sugar water can't cure cancer"
Damnnnnnn😂
faith can't do anything.
@@acidmizer Yeah you are right, it's not always SuGaR WatEr. It has worked on me several times, during fevers, skin allergies and headaches etc. I can't say placebo effect is always responsible for it. To me this video was more like a sponsor for Allopaths.
@@simulify8726 Tell me you are joking
@@acidmizer in fact many men have been driven to truly great deeds, exceeding their own limits by faith/conviction/having the feeling of serving a purpose greater than themselves. There's nothing mystical, irrational in this point of view
@@melontron7734 Faith
This channel is a bless to humanity!
It gets people to think more logically