You're speaking of classical homeopathy, not practical observation. In practice there are many homeopathic products with varying dilutions, many of which have a meaningful amount of the substance, and therefore the distinct possibility of a biological effect.

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BobbyTables2 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agree! Someone once told me that homeopathic doctors often put significant amounts of allopathic medicine in their “homeopathic” concoctions. Does wonders for effectiveness! Perpetuating the classical myth in this manner is also great for business!

Of course, there are also a number of cases where western “supplements” were caught containing actual prescription medicine, not just natural precursors or such. Same idea…

	▲	OutOfHere an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That might be true but it's absolutely not what I was getting at. Certainly I have never had or even seen a supplement containing any prescription medicine. My comment was strictly in the context of ingredients and isolated labeled products that are used only in the homeopathic space.

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jiggawatts 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, but homeopaths would consider the less diluted ones to be the weaker “medicine”!

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OutOfHere an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps some very traditional ones would. Most people are just concerned with addressing their symptoms.

Rightly or wrongly, homeopathic products are considered medicines, not supplements, and people in general are very mindful of spending money on medicines that don't work.

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kyralis 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Rightly or wrongly, homeopathic products are considered medicines, not supplements, and people in general are very mindful of spending money on medicines that don't work.

[Citation needed].

People spend enormous amounts of money on junk "cures" and have done for centuries. Homeopathy is just one of the many current such scams.

	▲	qsera a minute ago \| parent [-]
		You are forgetting the fact that many allopathic medicines are also junk cures which are seldom not better than a placebo (pushed through by flawed methodologies and corruption). And when they are found, they gets banned in US, but continued to be used in third world, where the now "junk" cures are sold as legit science!

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spacebacon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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