I actually took a homoeopathic remedy once.
It was while I was travelling. I was feeling very nauseous, a condition primarily caused by the consumption of rather a lot of beer the night before. Travelling in our group at the time were a couple who were into all this alternative therapies nonsense*. They had their homoeopathic remedies kit - dozens of little phials all labelled up with the names of the ingredients that they didn't actually contain.
As I wasn't feeling up to yet another argument about why it was all nonsense I took the perfectly harmless sugar pill that was offered.
Lo and behold, about six hours later, my hangover had gone. This was, I was solemnly informed, proof positive that I was wrong and that it does work. And who could possibly argue with that?
Now, can I interest anyone in my homoeopathic vodka? Guaranteed ten million doses in every glass.**
(*They were a perfectly ordinary, decent couple but some of their beliefs about medicine were off with the fairies. Homoeopathy, acupuncture, chiropracty, crystal healing, aromatherapy: you name it, they bought into it
** Although thinking about how homoeopathy is supposed to "work", homoeopathic vodka should sober you up rather than making you drunk, so it probably won't be a best seller.)
It was while I was travelling. I was feeling very nauseous, a condition primarily caused by the consumption of rather a lot of beer the night before. Travelling in our group at the time were a couple who were into all this alternative therapies nonsense*. They had their homoeopathic remedies kit - dozens of little phials all labelled up with the names of the ingredients that they didn't actually contain.
As I wasn't feeling up to yet another argument about why it was all nonsense I took the perfectly harmless sugar pill that was offered.
Lo and behold, about six hours later, my hangover had gone. This was, I was solemnly informed, proof positive that I was wrong and that it does work. And who could possibly argue with that?
Now, can I interest anyone in my homoeopathic vodka? Guaranteed ten million doses in every glass.**
(*They were a perfectly ordinary, decent couple but some of their beliefs about medicine were off with the fairies. Homoeopathy, acupuncture, chiropracty, crystal healing, aromatherapy: you name it, they bought into it
** Although thinking about how homoeopathy is supposed to "work", homoeopathic vodka should sober you up rather than making you drunk, so it probably won't be a best seller.)
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