It only worked for you because of the placebo effect. Substances sold as homeopathic medicine are diluted beyond the point where anything other than water can be detected in the bottle; there aren't even *molecules* left of the (harmful) herbs or chemicals it supposedly contains.
It should set off red flags when you see in the FAQ on the site you linked that the medication has no drug interactions, no side effects, and that you can take it ANY TIME of the day or night and it will never make you sleepy during the day. This is because it doesn't contain any active ingredients, or at least in such minute amounts that they couldn't possibly act on you. You could take the whole bottle and nothing would happen.
The ingredients it does supposedly contain also aren't sleep aids, they're stimulants. The theory of homeopathy is "treat like with like" -- if you can't sleep, take a stimulant. No kidding.
It doesn't make me go bah because I'm skeptical about "alternative medicine". Traditional and herbal medicine are just fine (and homeopathy isn't traditional, it's quite modern!), but homeopathy, specifically, is a crock of shit.
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Date: 2009-04-24 04:44 pm (UTC)It should set off red flags when you see in the FAQ on the site you linked that the medication has no drug interactions, no side effects, and that you can take it ANY TIME of the day or night and it will never make you sleepy during the day. This is because it doesn't contain any active ingredients, or at least in such minute amounts that they couldn't possibly act on you. You could take the whole bottle and nothing would happen.
The ingredients it does supposedly contain also aren't sleep aids, they're stimulants. The theory of homeopathy is "treat like with like" -- if you can't sleep, take a stimulant. No kidding.
It doesn't make me go bah because I'm skeptical about "alternative medicine". Traditional and herbal medicine are just fine (and homeopathy isn't traditional, it's quite modern!), but homeopathy, specifically, is a crock of shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy