Homeopathy - An Argument That is Not In Favour of it but sort of is.

Let’s face it. Homeopathic treatments are false. Remember when all those people participated in a mass overdose to show there were no effects? There you go. It is unacceptable if somebody has a treatable disease to claim that homeopathy will treat it. But what about in the context of palliative care, or in the case of a patient on whom all known scientifically valid remedies have been tried and found ineffective for the symptoms/pain? In this case I think it doesn’t matter so much if the treatment is ineffective. If the person has been told it is ineffective, and yet still manages to convince themselves that it is making them feel better, then what was needed has been achieved. An analogy: You’re feeling sad, stressed and disillusioned, so you look down a kaleidoscope. You watch the pretty patterns and colours merging and changing, exploding and fading. You will yourself into that world that you know is an illusion, yet despite the fact it is an illusion you feel happier and more relaxed and peaceful. In the case of palliative care I would say it is the same thing, providing the person has been informed that the homeopathic remedy is ineffective.