King Hazza, I'm not sure how you managed to keep a straight face with your last reply, or is it straight-out cognitive dissonance?

'If someone were to approach a modern homeopath that were still following Hanneman's practice of expecting a .00001% of a gram of substance in a fluid of supposedly augmented water would help their immune system, that should be their fault'.

Which is exactly what homeopaths *do*. That's their whole schtick in a nutshell, and, as you unwittingly concede, it's nonsense.

Well, Pelican, as it seems you're having trouble following where I'm going, here it is plainly: what I'm pointing out is that your chemophobia is irrational and nonsensical.

You deride 'chemicals' in food. I point out that food *is* chemicals, so you instead dodge around, arguing that man-made chemicals are harmful, while naturally occurring plant-based chemicals are fine and dandy.

You then get stroppy when I list just a few of the harmful naturally occurring plant-based chemicals, which makes a nonsense of your irrational dichotomy between 'natural' and 'introduced' chemicals.

The truth is that blanket labelling pesticides as bad is foolish and uninformed. In fact, you have more to fear from the natural chemicals found in nearly all plant-based foods than you do from synthetic pesticides. Which in both cases, is pretty much nothing to fear at all.

So put the organic broccoli down and get over your silly chemophobia.

Let's leave the last word to researcher Bruce Ames:

'The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will makefruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to *natural chemicals* [my emphasis], and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low.'

Except that they don't Clownfish- many do in fact set different potencies and reduced dilutions to suit patients' capacity.
http://abchomeopathy.com/help/potency.htm

Again, for some with low substance thresholds, it's either waste money on that stuff, hope there is a low-potency mainstream alternative, or again, divide a normal tablet with a kitchen knife and remember to take the fragments at the intervals.

King Hazza, I'm not sure you even read your link. If you did, you'd notice that it not only follows the stupid homeopathic fallacy of believing that the more diluted something is, the more potent it is, but also that they recommend 30C or 200C dilutions as a matter of course.

Even their 'low potency dilutions' are so diluted as to approach the allowable levels of lethal poisons in drinking water.

Thank you for proving my point, however unwittingly.

Clownfish now you are just twisting my words ignoring the spirit and context in which they were posted ie. stirring the pot for some unknown pro-chemical agenda no doubt - not sure, your intention is not clear.

Yes, I am to blame for assuming a level of intellect in the readership. My fault entirely.

I believe most people would discern I was talking about 'harmful' chemicals but you can still choose to play dumb and act the martyr as much as you wish. You probably prefer to play word games and one does tend to get stroppy in the presence of intentional misconstruction.

It is completely up to you - you can choose to be an informed consumer or not - completely your choice, all the information is out there.

dear All,
again there is so much point less discussion.

those who don't believe should test and experiment on themselves under guidance of an experienced Homeopath. and that too in the potency which he/she does not believe in / and / it should be very clear and end this waste of time.
like, "proof of the puding is in tasting it"

Homeopathy acts and that is sure.
Anyone saying against it will not make it stop acting.

Yes, lets shelve the pointless discussion and watch some light entertainment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

Wow, that's strong stuff.