Does anyone know if you can buy homeopathic remedies in pharmacies/chemists/health food shops and if you can, do you need a prescription. Any info will be very helpful.

Thanks
Marina xx

Hi Marina
I don't know the answer to this but would like to! Belladonna who posts on here will be able to help you - maybe you could pm her - let me know what she says!
Sue

Health food shops in aus are fantastic, much wider choice than uk. My missus has M.E. and is on gluten wheat yeast sugar oats free diet and they even had a raisin loaf minus all the above in a little one shop town on the way to byron as well as 14 other breads. We can get 1 in the uk even online!!

al

Homeopathic remedies are available at pharamcies etc, although the normal ones tend to carry a fairly limited range. I live in Perth and there are a number of specialist homeopathic pharmacies that have the full range of remedies available. There is no need for a prescription as everything is available over the counter.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Marina,

I am student studying homeopathy in Sydney. The best place if you are in Sydney is Macro health foods, they will also give you good advice for free over the counter by their qualified naturopath/homeopaths. I have also found homopathic clinics will also sell you remedies but not sure about pharmacies as I don't go into them.

Hope that helps

Ange

Hi,
My wife is a pharmacist with a diploma in homeopathy. I'll get her to dig some info out for you when she gets home.

I can sell you some distilled water which I've banged down against the worktop: should be much the same!

Well said!

Thanks to all of you for your replies. Very helpful

Wol and Georgiagal, I see you are cynics. I'll give the distilled water a miss but thanks anyway I tell you the stuff works wonders! Couldn't live without it especially for my kids during those winter months.

Marina x

You're right - I *am* naturally a cynic (or more properly, a sceptic). The world we know - for better or some will say for worse - was built by people who adopted the scientific method, formulated theories, tested them, refined them, tested them and gave us integrated circuits, safe water, satellite navigation and the rest. Peer testing and repeatability made the world we know.

As far as I know not one single, independent study of homeopathy has given any credence to any effect other than a placebo effect. That in itself may be of some use, but so far as I am concerned the best that can be said for homeopathy is that by its very nature it doesn't do any harm.

I am willing to be convinced, as I am in all things, but if banging a bottle of 30C water - in other words, water - a few times on the bench makes it "remember" anything about the odd molecule that might remain my whole world view is turned upside down and it'll take a hell of a lot of independent analysis to do that!

Until then I will call it a gigantic, profitable fraud.

America's healthcare system is the 3rd leading cause of death (unnecessary surgery, medication errors in hospitals, other errors in hospitals, infections in hospitals & negative effects of drugs) after heart disease and cancer!!!!

:scared:


In India they have been homeopathically treating people with stage 2 (asymptomatic) HIV and stage 3. In a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial an individualized homeopathic remedy was prescribed in each case. The main outcome measure of the study was the patients' CD4-positive T-lymphocyte counts.
The net results of this study was that, in the more severely sick group(stage 3 ) there was a statistically significant improvement for the homeopathically treated group, but no significant change for the placebo group.After the initial six-month trial the 100 participants were joined by an additional 550 HIV-infected patients, who were then all treated. The May 1999 issue of homeopathy today reported on the results. "After a period of 3 to 16 months, many patients gave non-reactive response to ELISA and some gave negative response to western blot test (both standard tests for HIV) indicating effectiveness of the therapy"




ingerland Ingerland Ingerland!!!!

The power of suggestion is a truely potent substance. As for us scientists, show me some REPEATABLE scientific studies and I may be swayed. The only saving grace is that, although it may hurt your pocket, "percussed" water is not going to harm your body!

We have come a long way since the 1700's!

Thank god not eveyone is taken in by all of the latest homeopathic bull! As a equine scientist & vet consultant, we are coming across this in a big way in the USA and quite honestly it's terrifying. I don't know how the marketing techniques work in Oz but you just have to read the latest "Tahitian Noni" juice leaflet to realise anyone with more than one brain cell should be able to see through it as a major money making scam. Anyhow, as you say, at least homeopathy does no harm, other than to your pocket!

Ah, that poxy Tahitian Noni juice muck! :scared: My mother tried to get me onto it; even bought two huge bottles at vast expense, in the hope that I'd drink them out of guilt!

IT IS UTTERLY VILE; I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO ANYONE ANY GOOD AT ALL!

I had a couple of glasses over several weeks - purely out of politeness - and tipped the rest into the garden once I knew she'd forgotten about it.

I am not a homeopathy fan; give me a good old fashioned GP any day!

Tahitian Noni juice is not a homeopathic remedy. Why link the two?

Jane