Michael Balarama wrote:
>>"Evidence suggests remedies offer placebo effect, but
>>no real benefits"
>>
>>Reuters
>>
>>LONDON - The world may be beating a path to the doors
>>of homeopathic practitioners as an alternative to
>>conventional medicines, but according to a new study
>>they may just as well be taking nothing.
>>
>>The study, published in Friday's edition of the
>>respected Lancet medical journal, is likely to anger
>>the growing numbers of devoted practitioners of and
>>adherents to alternative therapies that include homeopathy.
>>
>>more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9078909/
>>
>>
>>Just like "reflexology", better known as foot massage.
>> These therapies are quackery. They have appeal for
>>uneducated, credulous dummies.
>
>
> This study is not true--

The findings are true.

> who did it..probably some medical group...

It's published in Lancet.

> I had a
> serious problem not able to pass water and traditional medicines drugs did
> not work--

Was this in relation to your prostate problem? If so, there are many
factors which may have affected your ability or inability to urinate at
any given time.

> this homeopathic remedy had me passing water like Niagara
> falls...

Which can be attributed to placebo effect.

> it worked -while the traditional medicine did not ..

Homeopathy is quackery. The goal is to get the "spirit" of a substance
into the preparation by diluting into ridiculously small fractions. The
link below shows how ridiculous this is.

Read about it sometime and you'll find out that homeopathic "remedies"
are *literally* sugar pills -- powdered lactose to be precise, making
them unsuitable for vegans (if that even matters). While on the subject,
there's a little more that vegans should be concerned about with respect
to homeopathic "remedies":

Oscillococcinum, a 200C product "for the relief of colds and
flu-like symptoms," involves "dilutions" that are even more
far-fetched. Its "active ingredient" is prepared by incubating
small amounts of a freshly killed duck's liver and heart for 40
days. The resultant solution is then filtered, freeze-dried,
rehydrated, repeatedly diluted, and impregnated into sugar
granules. If a single molecule of the duck's heart or liver were
to survive the dilution, its concentration would be 1 in
100^200. This huge number, which has 400 zeroes, is vastly
greater than the estimated number of molecules in the universe
(about one googol, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes). In its
February 17, 1997, issue, U.S. News & World Report noted that
only one duck per year is needed to manufacture the product,
which had total sales of $20 million in 1996. The magazine
dubbed that unlucky bird "the $20-million duck."

http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...ics/homeo.html