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@tommy.irene wrote:

Saasher.....homeopathic treatments do have a place,I believe in it ..Irene is going through the Menopause and our Doctor told us the Drugs that people take can cause Cancer..So he put her on FLAVIA which is a herbal drug and it seems to be working well for her..

https://www.google.es/search?q=FLAVIA&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...

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Herbal medicines are not the same as homeopathic medicines, although there seems to be a lack of distinction between what is homeopathic these days.  There is no reason why herbal medicines should not work - they actually have an ingredient in them.  I believe that Homeopathic traditionally meant that the active ingredient is so diluted that often no molecules of it remain in the medicine, but it is supposed to work because the diluting substance retains a 'memory' of the substance.  At that sort of dilution where no active ingredient remains, science cannot explain how it could possibly work apart from a placebo effect.

If water can retain a memory of what it has been in contact with then goodness knows what people are taking in who live in the London area where water is taken out of the Thames. It passes through people, goes throught the treatments works and back into the Thames.  The water you drink in the Thames area has already passed through (on average) about 7 people and will have been in contact with a vast amount of different chemical substances before you drink it.

It all seems a bit confusing though because some treatments labelled as 'homeopathic' do contain actual active ingredients, and so they may work.  They can also have side effects too, so are not all necesarily safe unless well regulated.