"Vacuum cleaner dust"

[bindeweede]

I thought this must be a joke, but I don't think it is.


Vacuum Cleaner Dust
This remedy is available in the potencies 3X - 12C Please choose the potency you require and the appropriate size and form for that potency. If you are unsure click the 'Potencies' button above. If you do not see what you want please contact us through the free format order entry
We can only supply X (D) potencies up to 12X
All other potencies are centessimal (C) unless otherwise stated

Canine testes also available, apparently.

https://www.helios.co.uk/cgi-bin/store.cgi?action=link&sku=Vacu-d&uid=51946

https://www.helios.co.uk/cgi-bin/store.cgi?action=link&sku=Cani-t&uid=7796


Still, cheaper than an NHS prescription, for those who still have to pay for them.

And I wonder what this is supposed to cure.....



Berlin Wall

This remedy is available in the potencies 6C - 50M Please choose the potency you require and the appropriate size and form for that potency. If you are unsure click the 'Potencies' button above. If you do not see what you want please contact us through the free format order entry (http://www.helios.co.uk/openformat.htmltarget=new)
We can only supply X (D) potencies up to 12X
All other potencies are centessimal (C) unless otherwise stated

[Mojo]

And don't forget moonlight, the Great Wall of China, Thunderstorm, light from the planet Venus, shipwreck, the Stanton Drew Stone Circle, housefly, antimatter, peregrine falcon, mobile phone radiation...

Plenty listed here (http://www.hpathy.com/provings/), including one made from a condom (http://www.hominf.org/rubber/rubframe.htm).

[Mojo]

Still, cheaper than an NHS prescription, for those who still have to pay for them.


Ah, but remember, we are assured by homoeopaths that the remedies won't work unless they have been properly individualised to the patient's symptoms, for which they usually charge around £60.

[bindeweede]

And don't forget moonlight, the Great Wall of China, Thunderstorm, light from the planet Venus, shipwreck, the Stanton Drew Stone Circle, housefly, antimatter, peregrine falcon, mobile phone radiation...

Plenty listed here (http://www.hpathy.com/provings/), including one made from a condom (http://www.hominf.org/rubber/rubframe.htm).

I also found "Goldfish" (aww!) Pigs Scabies (urghh) and cat ovaries.

I wonder if people who accept homeopathy actually realise where some of the "remedies" come from. Not just nice herby-werbies.:smiley:

[Mojo]

Pigs Scabies (urghh)


Pork scratchings?

[Acleron]

I thought this must be a joke, but I don't think it is.


No joke.

But then house dust used to be extracted in water, dialysed, filtered and then sold as an injectable allergen desensitising vaccine. ???

[Julia]

The Stanton Drew stone circle? Chipping bits off for medicinal purposes sounds very much like vandalism to me! >:-)

[benjus]

I also found "Goldfish" (aww!) Pigs Scabies (urghh) and cat ovaries.

I wonder if people who accept homeopathy actually realise where some of the "remedies" come from. Not just nice herby-werbies.:smiley:

Eye of newt anyone?

Since the end products are indistinguishable from water, I wonder if the suppliers are not a teensy-weensy bit tempted to cut out the middle man and avoid having to mess about with Pigs Scabies etc...

[Acleron]

Eye of newt anyone?

Since the end products are indistinguishable from water, I wonder if the suppliers are not a teensy-weensy bit tempted to cut out the middle man and avoid having to mess about with Pigs Scabies etc...

Who could say? ^-^

It's the method of dilution that worries me. The high dilutions are automated by sucking out the contents of a tube and filling it up again. Apart from the inherent inaccuracy and imprecision, there must be a chance that some undiluted toxin may not take part in this process, stuck further up the tube, only to drop back at a later stage. One in a hundred dog faeces anyone?