Why is Homeopathy so looked down upon?!

Why is Homeopathy so looked down upon?

Surely there are those out there that can swear that this form of treatment does work for them.

3 months ago
It was not long ago that we depended on such natural remedies...is this not where a lot of our modern day medicines get their origins from?

There are many instances when a G.P. will tell a patient that (s)he must simply put up with a chronic ailment. In those situations, the patient would be plain silly not to seek an alternative treatment (Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, spiritual healing, homeopathy, reflexology, aromatherapy etc. etc. etc.). The patient should treat it as a calculated experiment, being willing to spend a certain sum and a certain amount of effort on trying to find alleviation for the condition. If it works, great; if not, well, it was only £30 (or whatever) - better to spend it on trying that than down the pub.. So, if you have a chronic condition that the N.H.S. can't fix, look around your town's main shopping-district, or in the Yellow Pages, for an "alternative therapist". If a prescribed course of homeopathic treatment works, then bear in mind that you may well be able to get a week's supply of the drug from Boots or Holland & Barrett for about a fiver. Some people who dismiss homeopathic remedies probably went straight to Boots and didn't know what the correct treatment was, thereby choosing the wrong drug. As to why the medical establishment looks down on homeopathy, look up the profit-figures of the major pharmaceutical firms (bearing in mind that homeopathic drugs are much cheaper to produce). One last point: until the 1970s (or, to a great extent, the 1980s) acupuncture was dismissed as quackery by the British medical establishment - now one can, if one is lucky, get it on the National Health!