Polish natural remedies and homeopathey better than English

For a while now my wife and I have decided where possible to take the natural option over the usual Doctor = prescription drug route for our common illnesses and general health issues. Well its actually not so much for us but our daughter. We've had great results with the natural remedies such as healthy foods and spices, natural anti oxidants and anti bacterial agents such as Oregano Oil. But it seems every time we need to research a specific health problem and link that to a potential natural cure its far more efficient to search the internet in Polish.

Its got to the point now that when my wife asks me to research something i just tell her that the Polish website will have better information and to do it that way. Bloody marvelous. These natural cures are dying out in the place of expensive drugs. I mean its not a like a Doctor to advise a glass of water topped up with whiskey, honey and lemon juice for a common cold. Polish people know about these things and even the Doctors when we lived there advised certain foods and such.... In the UK they almost always hand over a prescription for drugs.

My wife has become quite the expert with her various natural remedies, all thanks to the resources she finds online in Polish. Long may it last.

That's because there is no profit in natural remedies.
Drugs on the other hand....

Isn't it strange that people would prefer to trust a white pill full of nasty chemicals than go with mother nature?

well ,although WB seems to have found a way to use natural cures ,some people like to play it safe and listen to doctors and take the pills that will probably work .

don't know if some drugs are replaceable with natural remedies (such as antidepressants) ,but i think that using natural remedies is good when the illness isn't dangerous (like having a cold )

I wouldn't ever touch an anti-depressant drug in my life.
I'd trust NLP over an anti-depressant.

You'd be surprised - I spotted "baby water" the other day...

i was stating it as an example .some drugs can't be replaced with natural remedies .

Food as medicine is on the increase, as well as the rise of organic products.

My kids make their own version of lemonade & ginger with cane sugar and prefer it over carbonated drinks.

I would say that it's good the doctors are advising certain things to eat and drink with natural treatments. However I would be wary, by all means increase certain anti-oxidants and things in your diet and eat healthily with natural ingredients. But be careful substituting homoeopathic treatments in place of prescription meds. Natural remedies should be just that, remedies. They are not tested and dosed to be up to the safety standards of prescription medication and sometimes may not even contain a small percentage of what they are meant to.

Again, I am not saying not to use natural treatments, but use them a remedy or as a preventative measure in meals, etc. Don't think that they are a good replacement for modern medicine.


Doctors in Scotland often recommend a hot toddy when you've got a cold. I mean, there's nothing you can do to cure your cold so you may as well make yourself comfortable!

If there is more about homeopathy in Polish internet than in English that only means that there is more idiots in Poland.

Are you talking about natural remedies only WB, or are you including herbal remedies and Homeopathy?


St Johns Wort is a herbal remedy used for treating depression, but I'm not sure if it should be included as a natural remedy as such.

If the company that supplies homeopathic remedies is reliable and reputable there's no reason why many of the remedies they sell should be any less effective than many of the pharmaceutical ones. Most pharmaceutical therapies are just chemical analogues of plants/fungi/yeasts etc anyway, better to have the real thing. Obviously there are some illnesses that may need specialist drugs but not that many!

The drug companies are pretty corrupt anyway, for years they put forward expensive treatments for stomach ulcers when cheap anti biotics were more effective, they do it with other things too.

Good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle works wonders for prevention of illness where there are no basic anatomical or physiological defects in a person!

Here is one of mentioned by me persons.

Speaking as a person who has brothers who are doctors, parents who are nurses, 3 cousins who are pharmacists and who studied chemistry as a second subject at university (physics main subject) , so I do know something about the subject and the chemical elements involved!

do you have proof that homeopathy isn't effective ?

Do you have prove that God doesn't exist?


Great majority of scientist agrees that effectiveness of homeopathics is equal effectiveness of placebo. And it's a shame that you have studied physics and don't understand that homeopathics is only sugar.

i'm agnostic so no ,but that's not the point ,i meant scientific researches ,doctor's opinion etc ...


placebo can only ease pain and not cure diseases

Not true, most are fairly open minded about it especially if you include herbal remedies along with the homeopathic ones. Don't confuse the majority of scientists with the pharmaceutical company employees who have a vested interest in keeping people tied to their products, clearly they are going to say any other product is inferior!

Here you have random paper from the Nature:


You're asking me to show you a paper writing that homeopathy doesn't work. There is no reliable paper showing why taking sugar should would be more effective than any other placebo.

Instead I ask you to show me a paper from Science or Nature supporting use of homeopathics or explaining how it should work.

I don't ask you for doctors opinion because most of them are not scientists and they don't prescribe other placebo to patients in order to check weather homeopathics are any better.

And wikipedia:


/wiki/Homeopathy#Evidence

i'm not here to defend homeopathics ,it's just that the other guys seem to believe that homeopathey is effective and wanted to see the counter-argument


some doctors might have tried using homeopathey with their patients and found it to be effective (other than having the placebo effect )

So what is placebo effect according to you?

i believe that his is the placebo effect :
youtube.com/watch?v=gm02Oid8sbs

No placebo is not an youtube video. My point is that to notice weather some healing effect is caused by placebo or not, scientist must perform statistical work by giving real medicine to 50% of population on which it's tested and to other 50% fake pill, lets say sugar.

Doctors don't do that, so how can they know that it's not the placebo effect? Can you explain me that?

ok i'll try to put it in simple words :placebo is like morphine ,it makes the pain go away but doesn't heal anything


the doctor doesn't assume you're cured if you don't feel pain ! he examines you (temperature ,heartbeat rate etc..... )

You're wrong, placebo effect is not only about feeling better. Placebo effect is also about really getting better.

well ,not according to what i know and not according to the psychologist in the video

Then don't base your knowledge on some random videos only :)


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

not just random videos .


i have been reading this article as we speak ,but again ,it's well explained by the psychologist on how and why placebo works

End here factual discussion ends :)

just to add that the psychologist isn't just a random person ,his name is Nicholas Humphrey

He has been Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford, Assistant Director of the Subdepartment of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in Parapsychology at Cambridge, Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and School Professor at the London School of Economics.

so i think he knows what he's talking about

Absolutely agree.

Its amazing how sweet these common carbonated drinks taste when you abstain from sugar for a while.