Comments on: Homeopathic ear drops http://wongablog.co.uk/2006/09/18/homeopathic-ear-drops/ like balloons, only with dancing Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Johninnit http://wongablog.co.uk/2006/09/18/homeopathic-ear-drops/#comment-4483 Johninnit Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:32:12 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=2066#comment-4483 Get away! :) Surely 'trad' treatments just work directly on the wax itself (softening it and breaking it down) rather than trying to enter the body and convince it to stop producing the stuff. As homeopathic remedies have no active chemicals, any claimed effect must lie in entering and changing the body, so it would be ineffectual by nature on altering the state of earwax. (Or put another way, if it's a placebo, it relies on the gullibility of the patient. You can con someone into feeling better, but I imagine it's very hard to con an inanimate substance to melt). Or maybe it just comes with a very big pipette, and the instruction "repeatedly squirt large quantities as hard as possible into the ear, until all wax is (homepathically) dislodged" Anyway, that's enough of an icky discussion for lunchtime, methinks... Get away! :)
Surely ‘trad’ treatments just work directly on the wax itself (softening it and breaking it down) rather than trying to enter the body and convince it to stop producing the stuff. As homeopathic remedies have no active chemicals, any claimed effect must lie in entering and changing the body, so it would be ineffectual by nature on altering the state of earwax.

(Or put another way, if it’s a placebo, it relies on the gullibility of the patient. You can con someone into feeling better, but I imagine it’s very hard to con an inanimate substance to melt).

Or maybe it just comes with a very big pipette, and the instruction “repeatedly squirt large quantities as hard as possible into the ear, until all wax is (homepathically) dislodged”

Anyway, that’s enough of an icky discussion for lunchtime, methinks…

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