Homeopathy works!

**Admin** · 5th September 2006, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Nucular

wouldn't they think it odd that the same group of people all suffer from the same 200 diseases?

Possibly - but then again, we're all skeptopaths and skeptochondriacs!

**vbloke** · 5th September 2006, 03:06 PM

I had a quick peek in Boots over lunch - of the two types they sell in the local one, one has the serial number/batch number/unique identifier printed on the label and the other has it printed on the bottle.

I'd say go for the ones with it printed on the label, that way there's no other identifying marks on the bottle (that I could see anyway). Alternatively, buy two and swap the pills around.

**vbloke** · 5th September 2006, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by chillzero

Originally Posted by vbloke

I can't believe she cites the Bristol study as definitive proof! That had more holes in it than Swiss cheese wrapped in a string vest!

Once the "licenced" remedies start appearing on the shelves, I'm going to try an experiment and I suggest you all try it too - gently peel the label off and mark the bottle somehow, then, send it back to the manufacturer asking if they can tell you what's in the bottle as the label came off.

It'll be interesting to see what they come back with.

I think I might do this - I'll send 2 bottles back, and claim that the labels peeled off accidentally. Since one is (theoretically) for a condition I have, and the other is for my partner, could they identify which is which, so that we suffer no disastrous consequences of cross-useage?

:D

I'll also discreetly mark the bottles so I know which was which, and ensure they don't just send me new bottles of each - claiming them as the originals.

Gives them a 50/50 chance to get it right - but if more of us do it ....

I'd go the whole hog, buy 10 and peel them all off and send them back and tell them I can't remember what they are and could they tell me..?

**Mongrel** · 5th September 2006, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by John Jackson

It might be a bit naughty but I wonder what advice a boots manager would give if someone phoned them up and said that their child had just swallowed 25 of the homeopathy tablets they'd just bought. ???

That would be a dilemma for them. They must know that there are no ingredients in the pills so would they pretend the situation was serious or admit that the pills do nothing to reassure the parent?

Alll the Pharmacists I know (7) would tell the parent there's nothing to worry about, Homeopathy is just sugar pills. The Manager on the other hand should be referring these questions to the Pharmacists