These White Pills Are Deadly, Are They in Your Cupboard?

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[@chrystallynn]

As someone who's had migraines for over 20 years, I can see why they agreed to have a hold drilled in their head.

[@26OP011]

same as you ,it feels like it would relieve the pain

[@rickyspanish9585]

What causes your headache?

[@Texelion3Dprints]

@@rickyspanish9585 I had migraines for years too, I thought it was because I stare at a screen all day. But actually it was caused by dehydration, Not drinking enough causes severe headaches. Now I drink at least 1,5L per day and I'm fine.

[@sbalogh53]

@@Texelion3Dprints ... Make sure you dilute the water to 3C first... oh wait... never mind.

[@robink620]

I begged my family and friends to do just that too many times to count. I had to combat it with lavender essential oil a dark quiet room and extra large doses of aspirin. Thankfully I didn’t erode my stomach lining. My migraines were a side effect to a prescription meds, I’ve been able to leave those excruciating migraines behind.

[@DJashtray]

I love it when you read the side-effects on somethings like medication that is supposed to lower inflammation and the side-effect is increases inflammation

[@Naksuu]

Well drinking too much water can also kill you.. Some peoples organs arent as effective as other, which is why you report unwanted side effects and switch to an alternative (NOT a homeopathic alternative).

[@DJashtray]

@@Naksuu unless

[@Jbwynn14]

The side effects are often more horrible than what they're treating too

[@valkyrie_arts]

And anti-depressants causing suicidal thoughts/ideation xD

[@hideousruin]

@@valkyrie_arts well psychiatric medicines are essentially the Wild West. None of the same safeguards and testing is required for psychiatric medicines. Psychiatry itself is largely pretty unscientific. A lot of it is largely just made up. It's layer upon layer of what whoever was the guru at the time said. I mean there are those who still adhere to Freud's bullcrap. And he admitted he was just making shit up. "I would go on vacation, but I'm afraid some of my patients would get well in my absence..." - wow that's a real knee-slapper Mr. Freud. The traveling ice-pick lobotomists and mad-scientist-lair psychiatric wards aren't as far removed from modern psychiatry as they should be.

[@gerarddunmoore7609]

Seriously, the best summing up I have ever heard, brilliant. Don’t know if you have heard this one before, but when original talks began on government funding through the nhs for homeopathic remedies was put forward, one Health expert is said to have replied: “I agree that practitioners of homeopathy should receive payment, but on condition their wages be handed to them in envelopes in which the money used to be.”

[@mellie4174]

YES!!!!!! love that quote!

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The envelope remembers!

[@leocrossfield]

LOL

[@ericgardner3140]

🤣🤣🤣 PERFECT quote

[@stephenking4170]

It would be a laugh to get 10 people in succession to buy homoeopathic pills at a chemist and offer to pay with homoeopathic money.. after all 30C homoeopathic money mus be more potent, have more buying power than ordinary money.

[@seitisetsoh4991]

The definition drags my memory back to the time my mom sent me to a homeopath. I told the homeopath i was in so much much pain, I was crying describing my symptoms, and they told me "other people are in more pain than you". So the "suffering" part makes too much sense. Makes me think of Mother Theresa's method of dealing with patience

[@Jbond7777]

Horrible homeopath. There is also bad/horrible doctors, just an FYI.

[@teresayates8274]

Absolutely. I would NEVER trust any homeopathy mystery pill. It's all garbage that has the potential to make your medical problems worse or just kill you. I honestly don't know what goes through some people's heads, especially when it comes to the lives of their children.

[@maxxomega6599]

If that asshole told me that "other people are in more pain than you", I'd kick him in the balls and say "You mean like that"?

[@JohnBaker-ki8vw]

I took your advice and rubbed onions in my eyes to treat my allergies and, while I still have the sniffles, I can report that the whole house is now devoid of vampires. At least I think it is, I can’t really see that well anymore.

[@putnamehereholdmadoodle]

I took his advice I am now sitting on a egg plant watching the Simpson's while my cat looks at me very strange. I think I'm fixed

[@simonscott5104]

John Baker try again. Just to make sure.Because you got onions mixed up with garlic.🤣 While you're at it get some holly water ,rump steak & some rubber bullets.🤔👍🏻

[@paulharris3456]

Actually his advice worked! Surely the onions will get you killed by the vampire because garlic is what stops them and since you no longer have any blood left in your body and if you happen to come back as a member of the undead community and has solved your allergies! Congrats mate, cheers!

[@gettingitin6341]

Haha

[@Cell2Dee]

Garlic...

[@realitysend]

How can homeopathic remedies not be mixed correctly? Clearly, they forgot hitting it against a book.

[@reapermaster1233]

"Honey where's the encyclopedia?" "What?" "LIVES ARE AT STAKE"

[@mykhailohohol8708]

Leather-covered book, mind you!

[@osgargilbert6836]

That's exactly what I was thinking

[@MowiWowi]

Uh yea clearly....

[@realberserkpanda]

Dam i was about to write ir

[@miscme7116]

I took my car to a homeopathic mechanic. He let the car stay in the rain for a week and now it is fixed! He said that the location of the rain was important, as being close to their company, the water had information about hundreds of cars and how they were fixed, that this information went into my car as well and let it fix itself. Makes sense.

[@fmra3579]

What causes an "undercurrent of suspicion of modern medicine" is rushing out a cure and being told its safe only to find out its about 12% effective, but the side-effects we were concerned about were real and actually caused people to die.

[@lconnerz100]

What cure are you referring to?

[@marktechsci]

Interested to hear as well. In the US that would be hard to push through the FDA.

[@gerafinali4384]

It sounds like COVID vaccine...

[@slautrl6772]

are you referring to a vaccine? if so, a vaccine is not a cure. also what cure/vaccine are you referring to?

[@AshwinJoshua999]

My neighbour is a homeopathic doctor who goes to the hospital when he has a fever rather than take his own medicine while still prescribing it to his patients

[@michaelvs.scorpio7676]

How TERRIBLE!! Where is his CONSCIENCE? How can he sleep at night?

[@patatje1434]

homeopaths are the real danger of homeopathy. they are so willing to break down traditional medicin. my wife easily got an attestation that our children cannot have their vaccinations due to medical reason. i'm pretty sure this happens quiet often and is the way to go when you're an antivaxer. welcome back polio

[@SeRgEaNt_RaNdOm]

Homeopathic Doctor? That just sounds like a crazy witch doctor with extra steps

[@boomerix]

@@SeRgEaNt_RaNdOm I'd actually trust a crazy witch doctor more then a "homeo doctor"

[@darkbolt333]

Michael vs. Scorpio If placebo helps people feel relieved, I would gladly give homeopathy to them. In the end, homeopathy is just expensive water. No harm.

[@Jonathan-bu7iv]

Homeopaths: "Nah we don't want something as unnatural as penicillin" Me: ITS FROM A FUCKING MOLD. ITS AS NATURAL AS IT GETS.

[@SilverVolo]

@@robertgiles9124 Are u a homeopath or something

[@kaamn1829]

@@robertgiles9124 *if you don't intend to read this because you don't care, that's fine, but please at least answer my question in the last paragraphs, as I'm **_genuinely_** curious.* first off, sir, using an anecdote as proof against a larger pattern is cherry-picking, circular reasoning, and a whole bunch of other logical fallacies- not an actual way to prove your point. I come from a highly religious family wherein one of my fairly logical uncles almost made my niece deaf because he refused to give her the prescribed penicillin, so for every _one_ homeopath you know who doesn't believe that, I can name probably _20_ who do. which, obviously _isn't_ a valid counterargument to your point! hence, I'm going to assume in good faith that you didn't understand what this @Jo Jo person was saying, and not that you deliberately misinterpreted it to disguise the point of the argument, so I'll explain. you said "Homeopaths don't say that. Fakes News from you. What bullshit," meaning homeopaths don't say that penicillin is unnatural. @Jo Jo replied that searching google for "homeopath + penicillin" yields websites and products marketed _by homeopaths_ as natural penicillin alternatives, which it does, though the onus of proof here is on you to give definitive evidence that they _don't,_ since you responded to someone's anecdote saying they were lying, not @Jo Jo. thus, it's very clear that homeopaths _do_ say that. if you were arguing that _all_ homeopaths don't believe that- ignoring that arguing semantics is stupid af since language is ever-shifting- then you could use your anecdote and, though not a strong argument, your point would well be proven. however, that's not what you said. which, regardless of semantics, responding to a person's correct dismissal by saying that searching to find someone who believes the earth is flat and finding one is the same thing is false. ---> the (anecdotal) assumption: homeopaths believe penicillin is an unnatural remedy. your argument: no, they don't. --> a google search: websites/blogs written by homeopaths saying "penicillin is an unnatural remedy." --> = your original argument has been proven false. ---> "not _all_ homeopaths believe that, I have a friend who is both a homeopath and a certified doctor" --> = _valid,_ if weak, argument. --> a blog post saying the earth is flat --> = not a fact, not the commonly accepted scientific belief (there _ARE_ wackos out there...) --> ---> thus, saying _ALL_ homeopaths do not think penicillin is an unnatural remedy ( = penicillin _IS_ a natural remedy to _ALL_ homeopaths) in response to someone _disproving_ that very statement, especially by citing that some people dispute and disagree with _proven facts_ doesn't prove your argument... if anything, it's more of a self-own. also, homeopathy is literally defined as 'a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine founded on the notion that "like cures like,"' so when you say you know a doctor who believes in homeopathy, you probably mean 'natural' remedies, right? homeopathy and natural remedies are two totally different things, by definition, though the confusion that's resulted in this misunderstanding is probably because most people colloquially refer to them as the same physical thing. p.s. all of this, of course, precludes the fact that 'homeopathy' (i.e. natural remedies) is about getting your medicines from nature and not using 'chemicals' as if everything in nature/on earth isn't made from the same 118 elements. and, @Jo Jo is correct again, antivenoms aren't homeopathy or 'natural' remedies. antivenoms, especially for snakes like the black mamba, are created by injecting horses and other large animals with venom and collecting the antibodies they create to turn them into a treatment suitable to us smaller humans. pretty cool, eh? also really damn weird...

[@TomoyoTatar]

@@kaamn1829 Not all homeopaths believe that, only some. Hold up, I'll go get my popcorn. 👁👄👁🍿

[@spajkilza1992]

@Adan Cohen what a pasta is it? I saw exact same dialog about flixzone few times already.

[@alandeng027]

@@TomoyoTatar ill get some soda too

[@Truthorfib]

Well for the antihistamine for years I always though I had a nasty cold or I was just too frail. But when I finally got checked and was diagnosed with allergic rhinitis antihistamines really gave me a huge relief! I used to sneeze all day, had watery eyes and nose but now no more!

[@henkschrader4513]

Back in the day they gave opium or pure morphine for that and amphetamines have also been used for that in the 50s

[@pocolrs]

I have a homeopath daughter. Patients usually go to her when all else fails, then a 'miracle frequently happens in the fact that patients get relief, or cure. Got quite a bit of a following in the community she is practicing in....

[@chrispict42]

Yes. I bet.

[@cheesecake6696]

As far as I know there are studies that show homeopathy is effective as another common treatment. Placebos.

[@mrurchu4812]

Make a video about "Being decisive when choosing video titles."

[@sholsy2785]

@Thoughty2 I challenge myself to get here early enough to see the original title for all of your videos

[@AxxLAfriku]

I have two hot KZbinr girlfriends and I am the best KZbinr ever and YOUR savior. Good bye dear mur

[@eamesaerospace2805]

AxxL yeah right

[@normalidiot7227]

i noticed that too lol

[@jonasschiffers2850]

Shots fired

[@matthewdrummond1340]

"... and death. Brilliant!" In their defense pain should subside if they're dead.

[@me3333]

That's what I was thinking, technically all of these remedies worked.... eventually....

[@theanarchonazbolinquisition]

If life is pain, Homeopathy is here to take it away!

[@Digitalhunny]

😂😂😂😂

[@Digitalhunny]

@I farted multiple times among many lifetimes - But _did_ you really fart? Or are you just putting us on?

[@notmychairnotmyproblem]

@@theanarchonazbolinquisition 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rexremedy1733]

Fun fact: Every medicine is dangerous if the production is not regulated and supervised properly.

[@danhard8440]

can i be the one that says duahhh

[@matthewprestia7647]

Genius insight, thank you

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

@@user-zo4lw9so6j and that’s probably considered clean for a pill plant. Most are made in gross plants in India

[@campbell2009]

i use some plant based stuff but for very minor stuff, like blackberry leaf tea is amazing for a sore throat, rasberry leaf tea has scientific backing to help with period pains and some pain releif for childbirth! elderberries, made into a syrup is a nice cold remedy and simple honey can do wonders for all kinds of things.

[@CaptiveReefSystems]

As a biochemist (and someone that develops drugs and supplements), I ask you guys to note the distinction between dietary, herbal, and nootropic supplements (which DO contain active compounds) and homeopathic "supplements", as they are NOT the same thing! 😏

[@mellie4174]

yes we know!

[@calebmikkelsen8212]

Agreed. Homeopathy is a really great way to sell someone a super tiny amount of a substance that costs basically nothing to make for a high price. The profit margin must be insane.

[@peterjf7723]

@@mellie4174 Not everyone knows.

[@freddrog4689]

no no youre wrong! opium from the poppy plant has no effect whatsoever, its a plant, and plants ae placebos according to this YT video. Every single person using marijuana, mushrooms or opium poppy is just having placebo effects, because plants dont work according to this video which is likely sponsored by some big pharma company that pumps out petroleum based chemicals and theyre losing money on people turning to plant medicine. yep, the host of this video knows more than at least 200 million "irrational" people using plant medicines, if only he could educate them and tell them they arent capable of knowing whether something works for them or not.

[@peterjf7723]

@@freddrog4689 You really are a bit dim witted aren't you?

[@Sunnyshadez2292]

Title: These white pills are deadly *Shows a pic of rambutan* Me: I-Wha? Ho-mmmm....

[@istudios225]

Just what I wanted to say.

[@ddaranghaet131]

That's a very yummy fruit

[@seaweedbanana4663]

I remember accidentally swallowing the seed ahh yes, child hood memories

[@ajt202]

Well the seed is edible when cooked correctly

[@TheGauges420]

@@ajt202 yeah I doubt it was cooked if they did it on accident

[@Sept2504]

Cleaning out Mom's house after her death, we discovered literally thousands of "homeopathic" pills, tinctures, supplements,, and creams (not to mentions hundreds of bookson the subject). She tried to treat her illnesses for some 40 years, passing away from massive GI blockage and liver failure, having never touched alcohol. It was so very sad to throw out cabinets, closets, and cases of this exspensive, useless trash.

[@kathleennorton7913]

How do you know that she may have died sooner if she didn't use some of the products she used? I hope that it isn't true but you seem most upset about the money.

[@alastorgdl]

@@kathleennorton7913 You should instead ask for proof Scientism adepts are specially corrupt people who are taught to make things up in the name of truth

[@jimnance9872]

40 years? Sounds like what she was doing was keeping her alive

[@davekennedy6315]

​@@kathleennorton7913because that crap DOES NOT WORK! Didn't you just watch this video? It's complete BS! Snake Oil!

[@davekennedy6315]

​@jimnance9872 shut up haha! Didn't you watch the video? That stuff is complete fantasy land BS! If that crap works then why has the average life expectancy gone up DRAMATICALLY since stopping using this crap?

[@carlapowell4864]

I really enjoyed this video. I myself make an herbal tea for my fibromyalgia pain because I am allergic to the medication for it. But I don’t dilute it, as a matter of fact I make it extremely strong and before I even started making my tea I studied, and taught myself which herbs would work the best for me.

[@99PercentOffFreeHugs]

Herbalism isn't homeopathy. Herbalism is actual medicine. This is why, you need to be very careful and do your research like you say you do. A lot of people don't and don't realize it will interact with meds or other things! There are tons of great websites that will show you the interactions between herbs and all sorts of things including other medications. Great for people who don't knock modern medicine but may need to find an alternate solution like you have. :) Research the long-term use of certain herbs. Like any medication, long-term use of certain herbs is bad for you while short-term use is good. Always good to know when you should break or shift to another herbal concoction :) Good luck! Sounds like you are doing great!

[@bobdrooples]

Made up medicine for a made up condition. Makes sense. Get some exercise.

[@user-rm2rq8fq1l]

What’s unit?

[@user-rm2rq8fq1l]

What’s in it?

[@redraven1604]

I bloody love this bloke. Learning while laughing, now there’s a thing.

[@djnolan00000]

"Edutainment"

[@damienreeve5326]

Me 2 and he got a nice voice and he easy on the eyes I could listen and look at him all day long 😏and those eyes on him damn 🔥

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Ah yes whenever I get headaches, I too would opt for a lobotomy

[@yoshi2413]

when I got acne I just sucked out every ounce of blood in my body, worked great

[@gamedifficulty190]

found you again

[@PeppermintToasties]

From someone who has had to have neurosurgery for a brain condition, yeah drilling into ones head and having the entire skull base removed for “decompression surgery...” Sounded like a good idea I guess... >.> (Chiari and Syringno Myelia).

[@BigD-jc6rj]

I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[@flyingbirbod94]

you are here again

[@johnhazlett3711]

Never underestimate the power of the placebo affect and the use of sugar pills.

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

They work on animals though.

[@ricosuaveon2]

And infants and toddlers who don't speak, yet.@@theeggtimertictic1136

[@FlowNeppets]

As a young teenager, my daughter had a kidney disorder. The doctors didn't know what it was. No matter how many tests she went through. This went on for almost 2 years. I decided to go to a natural health store. The woman at the counter asked a whole bunch of questions. Then prescribed 2 herbal teas 2 times per day, and a tincture, 7 drops in one cup of her beverage of choice 3 times per day. It took about 3 months and everything was cleared up and didn't come back. She's 22 now.

[@lesterbottomley7641]

And yet they've failed every single blind test ever done.

[@peterklop9015]

Placebo effect, the power of the brain 💪

[@alastorgdl]

@@lesterbottomley7641 said "And yet they've failed EVERY SINGLE blind test ever done" Edzard Ernst (you SHOULD know who he is) wrote: "OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence of any type of therapeutic or preventive intervention testing homeopathy for childhood and adolescence ailments The evidence for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and acute childhood diarrhea is MIXED, showing BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RESULTS for their respective main outcome measures" You don't know the up side of a scientific study but claim the opposite to well known research because you live in a cult and you don't even know it

[@bobdrooples]

Do stop it. FS

[@kennyhogg5820]

It could've been the health food stuff. But also could be the symptoms would've cleared up the same doing nothing. I'm not saying do this, but to know for sure you'd have to go off the treatment and back on a couple of times to see if the problem comes and goes to know for sure. It taking three months to work puts me in doubt.

[@derpderpus6075]

"These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA." You'd be surprised how many products get the benefit of that disclaimer.

[@s.sestric9929]

Such as?

[@x3woots]

"These pills are deadly" *shows rambutan in a red circle*

[@nephatrine]

@@terryfuldsgaming7995 I see them in Kroger sometimes and other grocery stores in the US at certain times of year. Since they're imported, they tend to be on the pricy side for the amount of fruit you get and you have to grab them the moment they get them in to really get them fresh - so I wouldn't really recommend getting them here anyway. They are fun to eat though and the flesh is a bit grape-like.

[@0rnnate]

@@nephatrine its cheap ( where i live in ) its like 2$ per kilo Edit: Its hard to get them tho as they arent common

[@stevier4964]

@Din Joekhannaz I once ate around 20 rambutan in a row as a kid and then had fever for 2 weeks

[@x3woots]

@@terryfuldsgaming7995 bit late but its sweet

[@dferver]

I thought it was a Lychee (or Lichee) fruit. Very sweet and tasty, full of vitamin C.

[@mandolinic]

Looking at your list of "forbidden" prescriptions, I see the first item is snake venom. I've been taking snake venom for many years, prescribed by the NHS (well, sort of). It's called Lisinopril and it's a synthetic version of Pit Viper Venom, chemically modified to improve its effect for controlling hypertension.

[@septembersapphire347]

What?!?!?!? Lisinopril is SNAKE VENOM, SERIOUSLY???🤯🤯🤯 I take that and have for YEARS!!! 😳😧😱😰😨

[@user-zj1uj7dq3k]

LOL. Look out for snakes.

[@rross27]

@@septembersapphire347 Me too... But look at the bright side... If we get bitten by a snake, we probably have a better chance to live 😂

[@KhloeAerin]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@septembersapphire347 a synthetic derivative of said snake venom, not snake venom itself, and with important alterations made, like the addition of lysine.

[@taminapiwocki3423]

Yes, snake venom is also used to cure... wait for it..... snake venom!! There is something to that like cures like. BUT! It also requires knowledge of chemistry and extensive study of the thing you're trying to cure.

[@torgenxblazterzoid]

Yeah nice one Thoughty. I had an ingrowing toenail a few months ago. After consulting one of today’s leading edge; state of the art medical practitioners I was prescribed mRNA - based painkillers. Now I have four extra toes; autism, and an irrational fear of a cardiac arrest.

[@bobdrooples]

Mental issues. Do t forget that. Can I sell you some magic beans? Tart

[@Solidude]

I was terrified about the "Rambutan" fruit in the thumbnail together with the word "Deadly" cause I've been eating that all my life and it's really good. I'm like "Ok.. how much time I got?".

[@Suesserto]

Me and the Asians seeing Rambutan on the thumbnail:

[@kymchi1602]

@@Suesserto facts

[@kymchi1602]

Yo right and I have ate tons of rambutan my favorite fruit

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

I was wondering why I haven`t heard from my old friend in the Phil for a few days

[@desireer6915]

Lmao 🤣

[@occhamite]

"Homeopathy: There's nothing in it".

[@Fuilleverte]

There are things but you need to check your source. The German Medic journals check the veracity and efficacy of Homeo Pathic and Herbal remedies against the known Pharma "cures"

[@occhamite]

@@Fuilleverte uhh...it's a joke... "there's nothing in it" as in there is nothing to the theory , and often, there is not a single molecule of anything but water "in it".

[@bjs301]

@@occhamite Hey, most of us got it.

[@Fuilleverte]

@@occhamite Ah.. OK. but shouldn't it be Almost nothing? And don't mind me I'm just a Curmudgeon. ;)

[@Skylancer727]

Except when there is an it actually is dangerous.

[@s.d.hargreaves9939]

Greetings 42. I'm normally a sit in the crowd and quietly watch kind of guy, but, after watching a number of your videos I felt I needed to leave a comment. Your knowledge/research, your delivery and diction, has earned yourself a subscriber. I have even watched videos of yours that I thought I'd have no interest in, only to find myself stopping what I'm doing to watch them intently. I always learn something, all the while being entertained as well and for that, I thank you. I believe the minute you stop learning, is the minute you start getting old, so by that logic you're helping me stay 'young'. I'm looking forward to watching more. Cheers.

[@MakoTenseii]

As someone who doesn't handle discussion or visual of blood and body stuff in general, I don't know why I keep watching these videos. But they're just too interesting.

[@ddpwe5269]

Imagine if the placebo effect wasn't real, this wouldn't have last anywhere near as long, but it's another reason Goop is around, yay humans! lol

[@Skylancer727]

@Nidhogg Well it doesn't "really work" it's more an illusion of effect. It's for some reason a state of mind that makes us believe we are less likely to struggle to survive and somehow this leads to us actually recovering. By the same reason you can actually recover the same issues by just believing it will just get better or assuming things aren't actually that serious which is what most Americans do due to healthcare being expensive and therefore only a last resort. I know many people who've just ignored tons of things assuming it wasn't serious and I know I do it all the time. Only after say 4 months of still having it do people start to take it seriously.

[@Skylancer727]

@Nidhogg exactly, it's not really a cure as much as it makes somethings pass by better as the state of mind seems to effect it similar to how people with mono seem to not show any effects of it till they are under distress or anguish. Somehow our mental well-being and emotions do have an effect on our immune system but why and for what purpose is totally unknown. Perhaps it's a remnant of people needing to slow down their healing rates when in sticky situations suck as being stuck as to last longer and burn less calories. Hard to say. It's the same effect that makes children feel hugging their parents makes them feel better or getting a kiss does when in reality neither do anything other than make you feel good. It really is one of those major mysteries of the brain and how it functions. Of course as you said, placebo doesn't cure anything it just makes the immune system run more efficiently or on a higher speed. Perhaps it's the body trying to split the energy across the body without cutting into other functions too far. This could explain why sleep also seems to help as some functions are completely turned off or mostly turned off until interrupted. Because it doesn't actually do much other than speed up immunity it doesn't really work for much beyond what the immune system could have dealt with in the first place. Certain kinds of infections, bodily invaders, and cancers usually are a bit too much for the immune system and therefore no placebo can really help with them. You will still need treatment of some kind to get rid of those but to be fair, that should be obvious. It's also obviously not a substitute for vaccinations or shots as those can directly make immunity to something before you come into contact with it or with tetanus boost the immune system to quickly destroy it quickly. The main problem with taking fake pills though is the fact some people will be so certain of their protection because of the physical nature of the medication they will refuse extra help claiming it's a waste of money or to just give it faith. That's not how the body works and that's a dangerous philosophy to live by as shown in the video of the kids dying from refusing proper care.

[@floofball8905]

@Nidhogg keyword in the original comment: *Imagine*

[@ddpwe5269]

@Nidhogg I see you haven't learned to read what someone types before replying though =P Imagining it wasn't real means IT IS, because imaging is what? MADE UP. lolz Wait, but then I also said that's why GOOP is still around, because **gasp** it IS a real thing. lolz seriously, read better next time.

[@carpathianhermit7228]

@@Skylancer727 The placebo effect is a bit mystery, people drinking non alcoholic drinks believing them to be alcoholic and can barely stand after a few as one of many examples. Suggests some odd things about consciousness

[@justamanofculture12]

*Belle Delphine's bath water 💦?* Helll Nahhh..... *Thoughty2's mustache water?* Hellllllll Yeahhhhh.....

[@alexc7857]

Thoughty2 Moustache water taken as 30C should be prescribed for stupidity

[@ljgarrison6910]

I'd buy it, only if there was a cheeky face-pube floating in there.

[@CodyKatastrophic]

im gonna be the honest one and say that after looking at belle delphine, id totally drink her bathwater. not a simp, shes just cute

[@northngb]

@@CodyKatastrophic SIIIIIMMMMMMPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

[@CodyKatastrophic]

@@northngb lmfao ok fair enough

[@joshshroyer6927]

As a pharmacist, I greatly appreciate this video. I am constantly trying to explain this to people. It's crazy that so many people in my profession don't even know this.

[@D.von.N]

£5m for placebo that made some people feel better (and didn't harm them) looks little in comparison to £100m spent on prescription of painkillers that can be purchased for the fraction of the price OTC. And THOSE do have side effects. Using one or the other instead of treatment, i.e. just curbing the symptoms of potentially serious health issues that will be more costly to treat when developing further, is another topic.

[@shiftybtw5711]

I cant believe I watched and enjoyed a 25 minute video telling me water doesnt cure illness.

[@Talia.777]

😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@AnuragXorma]

But it cures dehydration.

[@realberserkpanda]

@@AnuragXorma well that's because someone clearly remembered to bash it against a book

[@King_Flippy_Nips]

@@AnuragXorma yup it will cure alot of headaches which is one of the biggest side effects of dehydration

[@TatsumiOga682]

I remember waiting for hours with my parents to see a homeopathy doctor to cure my infant brother's asthma. Poor guy had to eat sugar pills for years before my parents decided to show him to an actual doctor, after which his asthma decreased significantly and now he doesnt even have it. I live in India btw where homeopathy is still widely seen as a legit form of treatment. Its a miracle he didnt die.

[@erikburzinski8248]

We need more international efforts to make it illegal to use homeopathy world wide

[@froglifes6829]

@@erikburzinski8248 lol kid you live in a fantasy

[@WinterSoldier7207]

That would certainly help explain how 200 million people use it globally

[@taminapiwocki3423]

​@@froglifes6829does he? Or are you just complacent?

[@froglifes6829]

@@taminapiwocki3423 Making something thats useful for many people illegal is simply delusional.

[@EmIly-xz2yd]

Quercetin in onions is actually thought to be pretty good at reducing inflammation and therefore can help hay-fever symptoms. I have found cutting the things can help unblock sinuses. Though if you are going to save an already cut onion it's vest to douse it in salt and vinegar (or something similarly acidic) as they can become pretty toxic if you don't.

[@tachyon1441]

Please just take some anti-histamines, cmon now.

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Speaking of vinegar. In the past I've taken a good whiff of food grade cooking vinegar (not cleaning vinegar!) and that'll get your sinuses draining, if only temporarily.

[@bobdrooples]

But there is nothing but sugar in homeopathic crap. No onions or anything!

[@LRaber123]

This entire video reminds me of the Tim Minchin song -Storm. ‘Take physics and bin it! Water has memory! And while it’s memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it’s somehow forgets all the poo it’s had in it’ and ‘ “ by definition ” I begin, “alternative medicine” I continue, “has either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work.. do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? MEDICINE” are a couple of my favourite lines

[@flagmichael]

There are still legitimate uses for leeches! Medical leeches (yes, there are such things) are sometimes applied to stumps after amputations. The problem they are treating is lack of a place for the blood to go when it reaches the place where it used to circulate back to the veins, until vascularization completes the circuits. Source: my retired nurse wife, who occasionally had to examine the disgusting things when she worked at a nursing home. I will work hard on not needing any amputation, thank you very much.

[@kingaspendude]

Medical leaches makes them sound like they’re qualified medical professionals and now I can’t get the idea of leaches in labcoats out of my head

[@MagicBugzii]

Same with maggots. Very good at clearing away dead tissue.

[@thedingo8833]

I used them in wound care. Saved many a limb secondary to increasing blood flow. Maggots also. Wonderful at Debriding a wound whilst leaving alone viable tissue. ☺️☺️👏🏻👏🏻

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

They even used them on Botched! They work really really well and are basically non-invasive and really gentle- the leeches even put out a numbing substance that works perfect for numbing the area while they do their thing!

[@mellie4174]

yes we know! he's not talking about that!

[@eriaustin35]

Never underestimate the power of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

[@AquariUPS]

Not to mention the dioxide (H2O2 - perhydrol - hydrogen peroxide) which starts to vanish in it's pure (food grade - no phosphoric acid preservative stabiliser added) high concentation (>12.5%) versions from the market since (2017) characterized as...explosive and forbidden to air-travel liquid !!! Big pharma war against public health was started silently my friend... Even our drinkable H2O is more and more heavily treated with "innocent" chlorides and fluorides... God help us !

[@Anonymous-xp7ze]

@@AquariUPS Just buy a water filter.

[@letterslayer7814]

@@AquariUPS youve gone mental havent you

[@theeddorian]

@@AquariUPS Hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, is a serious oxidizer and can provide the oxidizer to various sorts of catastrophic energy releases. The material breaks down into oxygen and water. Since oxygen is a gas it separates from the liquid, and, that can cause an increase in pressure inside containers that aren't meant to hold pressure at the level. Granted TSA's restrictions border on brain dead, but even so, they derive from actual hazards. It's just their risk assessment that's crap.

[@AquariUPS]

@@theeddorian All these are true if some mandatory safety measures are omitted, my friend, but I am talking about a very stable solution (35%) in a thick nylon thermoisolated container of 0.5L packed into shock resistant and absorbant material within a thick hardboard tube properly sealed on both ends sold by a very responsible pharmaceuticals company, in London, that was sending this product to me, in Athens Greece, until the new rules were applied... I restore very old pianos, for living, and I use that liquid very very often in it's "non food grade" version (contains phosphoric acid as stabilizing preservative) as ivory keys whitener or fast oxidizer or wood sterilizing agent (always with gloves and eye protection on) but this "food grade" version is my alternative to the prescribed chemotherapy (methotrexate) for my chronic rheumatic arthritis and also my mother's and mother's in low cancer tumors with miraculous results on every case...! I'm still able to find what we need in the local chemicals market but it's getting more and more difficult, risky (purity is not always guarantied) and expensive every time I need it...

[@johnp.2351]

Something that should also be mentioned is that homeopathy requires restrictions from the patients, like stop drinking coffee, stop smoking etc. (because these habits cause the water to have amnesia, idk). So, if you drink 10 cups of coffee a day and take a homeopathic pill for anxiety or high blood pressure and discontinue caffeine, the sugar-pill can take the credit. These restrictions can also become a defense of the quackery, in arguments like, of course my miracle pill didn't cure you, you consumed caffeine or mint! Funny note, the original homeopathy quack, Hahnemann, had even broader restrictions, like stop wearing wool clothing (itches, hives etc stopped), stop horseback ridding (musculosceletal pains got better) etc, or else my treatment won't work. Well duh!!

[@CantTellYou]

lol in the first sentence I thought you were defending homeopathy, then the parenthesis hit. I love how the original quack was on first-name basis with plants he “could talk to” yet tens of thousands of people still believe in his “science” to this very day

[@alastorgdl]

@johnp.2351said "and take a homeopathic pill for anxiety or high blood pressure" And if the pill is against syncytial virus? It's no bad luck that this kind kind of cheap strawman fallacy comes from the people who fill their mouth with science and fight against lies You Scientism adepts are the Catholicism of science

[@kathysmith1629]

The discovery of penicillin and vaccines have their roots in this belief of like cures like. However, I agree that homeopathy requires belief to work. I'm one of those people who meds that work, work. If they don't, they don't. Homeopathy has never presented enough evidence to be given to people as a 'cure.' You can try it and many people say it does. But, not for me.

[@ianbelletti6241]

Homeopathy dilutes the working chemicals to the point of near nonexistence. The chemicals that work might as well not exist because they're so low that you have to take many bottles of the homeopathic medicine to get enough of the active ingredient. The pharmacies will sell only those remedies that are safe to ingest. Less reputable sources sell homeopathic remedies that are toxic.

[@user-kt1eg6ut4h]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@earthn1447]

An “alternative” doctor at the hospital told me her car rolled over 3 times but she chose to “let go” of her pain - as if my pain after flipping my car end over end was something I simply needed to let go of.

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

Maybe she was implying let go of the pain that comes with attachment to your pain/ newfound condition. You are not your body. You are so much more. But of course, I don’t know your situation, so I still wish you the best. Reply if needed

[@peempit4406]

“These pills are deadly” _Shows photo of the fruit asians eat normally_

[@PeppermintToasties]

Yeah I’m like “a lychee pill?” Okay are Lychees bad, do I need to stop eating them? *note, Lychees stop insulin from being produced in the body so don’t eat before a meal if you’re diabetic.

[@znyan1077]

@@PeppermintToasties rambutan*

[@rediebearexabior8585]

Overproud filipinos incoming, oh no pls don't give us cringe 😬

[@arundas8870]

They tasty

[@esteban___________________4424]

Mamón chino

[@kensurrency2564]

Anecdote; I know. My first child (who is now 18) had an ear infection around the age of 2. Our pediatrician whom we love prescribed antibiotics which we gave him. Yes; infection cleared up, back to life. A year later, another ear infection. This time, our doctor did not prescribe anything. At the time, research had been ongoing and he deemed it a minor infection, and no remedy was necessary. Our son made it through with no apparent long-term effects. He has never complained about his ears in the past 15 years. He seems to have normally functioning hearing. Perhaps severity is the important concept here. Properly identified crises and well-prescribed medicines are two of our most triumphant successes in the modern medical era. However, handing out medicines for each and every minor condition the market identifies may not be very wise. It does not help us develop the strength of constitution each of us is capable of, and which is unique to everyone. One size fits all doesn’t work, folks. We need individualized care. Human genome project is one step in that direction.

[@amberkat8147]

There is another reason why homeopathy might work aside from the placebo effect- they were dehydrated! So taking sugar pills with water actually made them feel better.

[@NecrochildK]

Bloodletting does have it's valid uses though, and still used in medicine, just a lot more controlled and for specific issues. I've often had too high red cell count in the past few years. My oncologist prescribed bloodletting as the modern term "Therapeutic phlebotomy". It's drawn the same way they draw for blood donors and if your blood is useable you can even donate it (Mine unfortunately isn't because it has certain antibodies).

[@iampebbss]

Same. Polycythaemia Gang 🎉

[@keenanfranzoni8384]

The only reason every body of water in the world isn't an all curing medicine is because we haven't hit the world with a giant book.

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

Keep in mind the book must be leather bound to be traditionally accurate.Nasa needs to get on that right away! (sarcasm)

[@terrormilk384]

You had me crack jesus christ

[@terrormilk384]

You had me crack jesus christ

[@robertnett9793]

@@terrormilk384 I hope you fixed Jesus. Some people seem to be very fond of an uncracked Jesus Christ.

[@terrormilk384]

@@robertnett9793 He'll be fixed in a few days, sorry for cracking him

[@eversoslightly9932]

“doc he seems to have developed psychosis” “Give him that bottle of mushrooms!”

[@kaamn1829]

🤣🤣🤣

[@trevorsamuels8392]

Better one would be "Doc, he has an eating disorder where he can't stop eating" the doc: :"Give 20 pounds of marijuana, that'll make stop eating"

[@trevorsamuels8392]

Just noticed I really fucked up my english there, lol

[@butwhytho4858]

The sarcasm here was spot on lol thnx for the smiles

[@duncan1271]

Absolutely brilliant! Some of the most informative and funny comments and videos ever!! Keep it up

[@ItsJustMe0585]

Just started reading your book, and my brain automatically reads it in your voice. :) Great stuff so far!

[@Hipp1062]

As someone with chronic pain, over the counter pain meds not doing anything is nothing new.

[@geradosolusyon511]

Let me guess, they're all homeopathic?

[@Hipp1062]

@@geradosolusyon511 nope

[@geradosolusyon511]

@@Hipp1062 well, I wish you the best of luck with that headache.

[@Hellraiser988]

@@geradosolusyon511 I got knee pain and painkillers don't work never have

[@geradosolusyon511]

@@Hellraiser988 now I feel lucky I only have social issues.

[@amaliasafaryan4256]

actually arnica montana pills helped me a lot with my bruising that i had a few times, dont know if theyre homeopathic ones but....they did help i had a huge bruise on my face and it was gone quick, and my bruises usually take foreverrr to heal

[@rev.bobertbockstop7057]

Absolutely love your channel. Clear, well thought out, obviously well researched by disciplined scholarship. In the past two years I have dealt with a hip replacement, Covid, a broken neck in a car accident (not my fault), three stents in my heart, terrible arthritis aggravated by having been wounded by a sniper’s bullet in Croatia in 1992. The few really excellent sites on KZbin like yours and some music I like have seen me through some dark nights of pain and sleeplessness. Thank you for your excellent videos. Fascinating.

[@MostlyBuicks]

My late alcoholic friend once answered my question: "Do you ever drink water?" to which he replied: "No, fish fuck in it."

[@joejones9520]

alcohol is yeast poop, seriously.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

@@joejones9520 can we talk about how amazing poop is. mushrooms, alcohol.

[@j.d.4697]

Then why does he drink beverages that consist of mostly water? Oh right, brain destroyed by toxic alcohol...

[@shawbros]

They shit in it too.

[@dlee91885]

@Harun Musa Worst of all the elusive.... spermwhale......

[@josephkoester3217]

My parent are big into it. The 'healing' colloidal silver gel I was given for my horrific acne, instead of real treatment, might have even given me slight argyria. The area under my eyes is slightly gray. Also, there were pills in the hyland allergy kit we had with specifically belladonna powder pills in them. Also one with arnica.

[@havelpants5248]

You dont get argyria from colloidal silver thats store bought, it's too diluted.

[@LunarForte]

@@havelpants5248 did you listen to a single thing in the video?

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

@@havelpants5248 you most certainly can! Turns your skin kinda blue/gray but it generally goes away once the skin sheds and you stop using. It stops being so diluted when reapplied- each layer of it makes it more and more each time. Have you ever had pants or socks or something dye your skin blue? It’s kind of like that, it happened to someone I know but they didn’t realize what was happening and days later I saw the CS gel and was like wait are you using this on your leg!? And stopped them and it got better eventually as far as I remember, I think it was mostly shed off. Any wound it gets in could get it in not only a subdermal layer of skin and result in permanent color (like how a tattoo never leaves) and also has potential the bloodstream. I’d only ever recommend taking a reputable brand of CS internally and only on occasion (like you start to feel you’re getting sick)

[@mellie4174]

@@havelpants5248 absolutely you can! my god, don't spread misinformation!

[@khalilrazak6486]

@@havelpants5248 You ain't too bright are you.

[@pawo007]

A high profile example of a Homeopathy related death (due to lack of seeking actual care/medicine) is Steve Jobs. When diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he sought alternative/homeopathic remedies until it was too late.

[@Launicaliz]

He was vegan. Enough said.

[@MGCrow-jc6ps]

I think there is also difference between science and the pharma industry. Pharma does also not always cares about your health when it comes to profits. I personally do not believe in homeopathy, but also nearly got killed by the side effects of scientific pills.

[@lord_boneman]

Honestly glad you made this. While it’s obviously farcical, I feel that people don’t know *how* bad and stupid homeopathy is, and the more that sane people bash it the closer we get to eliminating this nonsense.

[@esecallum]

ACTUALLY A FEW SCIENTISTS HAVE REPEATED THE RESULTS IN PEER REVIEW. ONE WAS A SKEPTIC SCIENTIST.

[@einhalbesbrot]

@@esecallum link it then

[@esecallum]

@@einhalbesbrot see above.

[@dragonmaddie]

@@esecallum link to the papers?

[@esecallum]

@@dragonmaddie www.researchgate.net/publication/336922928_The_controversy_over_the_Memory_of_Water_Med_Sci_Hypotheses_2017_41-6

[@cliveadams7629]

30C, kind of like the concentration of brain cells in a flat earther.

[@robertnett9793]

no no... the cells should be there - but the data-to-brain-cells ratio is somewhere in this ballpark.

[@cliveadams7629]

@Ms Bliss Yeah, morons. It was 12 men.

[@ratemisia]

@Ms Bliss I really hope you were joking, and aren't going to retaliate with a barrage of hellfire and Bible quotes like all the "genuine" moon-landing deniers? Really hard to tell who's joking around and who's serious when some of the serious people's stories just sound like jokes.

[@davymckeown4577]

I was a flat-earther until I discovered homeopathy, I'm now head of astrophysics at Tothickfor university. F'tang, f'tang, ole biscuit barrel.

[@snogglemonkey]

@Ms Bliss ...or like those idiots who think it was faked?

[@Vikanuck]

Lol the headline for this video is *exactly* like that Simpson’s/Kent Brockman joke, when he’s like “On the 11:00 news tonight, a certain kind of soft drink has been found to be lethal. We won't tell you which one until after the break!”, and Homer’s sitting there, sipping on a can of soda with a big dumb smile on his face haha 😂

[@njzeigler4370]

Other than being directly poisoned, one of the biggest dangers to homeopathic cures is they think they are being medicated so they stop seeking treatment.

[@PlacidDirge]

"This was a time when scientist believed that there were tiny little people living in your sperm and that making a baby essentially involved unleashing a army of minuscule man submarines on a mission to hunt down the egg." changes everything I thought I knew when recalling the past easter egg hunts when I was a kid. Gets weirder when you find out what or who Ēostre was.

[@btnhstillfire]

I was reading this comment AS HE FUCKING SAID IT. Lmao what are the odds of that?! 🤣🤣🤣

[@gewgulkansuhckitt9086]

Oddly enough, blood letting is actually a good thing sometimes. 1: People with hemochromatosis accumulate too much iron in their blood. The treatment? They give blood regularly. 2: When the hands or the feet are crushed, the swelling that results may cut off circulation. This causes the affected part to die from lack of oxygen as the oxygen in the blood in the hand/foot is depleted. One way to get a continual supply of oxygenated blood is to either cut the tips of the fingers/toes (perhaps in combination with an anti-coagulant) or use leeches. Blood pressure forces oxygenated blood into the crushed limb to replace the blood that oozes out. A continual, slow loss of blood is the ideal result. Eventually the swelling goes down (perhaps with the help of drugs) and the crushed limb can recover. Drilling holes in the head is a legitimate treatment for concussions, but not for a lot of other things.

[@karlharvymarx2650]

I'll add that I get bloodletting for #1, but it is 1 liter per month, not 4 liters in a day like poor George. And once my iron was down to fairly normal levels, 500ml every 2 months is enough to maintain it at that level. (I have considered self-treating with leeches since $300 to "give" blood seems kind of expensive/insulting, but the little suckers can get loose and roam the house for a while and that kind of freaked me out too much. I think that one scene in "Stand By Me" left me psychologically scarred:-))

[@namename9998]

/s Don't tell pregnant women with bad morning sickness that marijuana doesn't actually work and that it will kill them. Medicine these days can kill you just as easily as homeopathic options. The video is clickbait and stupid for saying that homoepathic medicine doesn't work, especially since “Placebos are extraordinary drugs. They seem to have some effect on almost every symptom known to mankind, and work in at least a third of patients and sometimes in up to 60 percent." Is it really Tylenol that cured your hangover or was it time or was it psychosomatic. It's also stupid to judge doctors from previous generations because they didn't have the knowledge that we do. Handwashing only came in the scene in the last 150 years. In 150 years bloggers will laugh at how ridiculous our generation was, because we weakened our immune systems because everyone is social distancing so that they don't catch cooties and are wearing masks all the time. I agree, bloodletting isn't a cure all treatment, but it does work in some cases and is still used. Marijuana does actually help. Chicken soup is homeopathic and for some reason when people get a cold they pull out a can of this "dangerous" stuff. Massage helps people with chronic pain and some mental disorders. I would like to know what degrees Thoughty has that he can just discount all alternative medicine. If he were prescribing drugs without a license he would be responsible for any harm which came to people who listened to his "advice". He's not much different than those who tell schizophrenics not to take medication. I wonder how many parents who vaccinate their children will be charged with manslaughter just like the parents of Francesco were when their child dies because of adverse reactions to the vaccine. Whose fault is it that there isn't more data about natural remedies, or that governments don't require people to be licensed. Which is more profitable, a pill or a leaf which people can grow in their backyard. What people need to do is talk with their doctor. When asked "are you taking anything", which includes self-medicating with a glass of wine every night (which has been linked to better heart health), smoking, vitamins, etc, tell them the truth. How can anyone expect a doctor to know what's wrong with you if you say "nothing", and they give you something which is known to react poorly with what you're taking. I would not recommend this channel because most people believe everything they're told. "Belladonna should be safe for you if your doctor prescribes it and you take it as directed." That is from Healthline, a credible medical website. If everyone believed only what Thoughty said belladonna would be illegal. "Atropine is a medication used to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types of slow heart rate, and to decrease saliva production during surgery. It is typically given intravenously or by injection into a muscle... Atropine occurs naturally in a number of plants of the nightshade family, including deadly nightshade (belladonna), Jimson weed, and mandrake. It was first isolated in 1833, and is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines." Water kills. We should never use water for anything. "Few know that systematic reviews of hospital charts found that even properly prescribed drugs (aside from misprescribing, overdosing, or self-prescribing) cause about 1.9 million hospitalizations a year. Another 840,000 hospitalized patients are given drugs that cause serious adverse reactions for a total of 2.74 million serious adverse drug reactions. About 128,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them. This makes prescription drugs a major health risk, ranking 4th with stroke as a leading cause of death. The European Commission estimates that adverse reactions from prescription drugs cause 200,000 deaths; so together, about 328,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe die from prescription drugs each year. The FDA does not acknowledge these facts and instead gathers a small fraction of the cases." "Over-the-counter painkillers Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or naproxen (Aleve) are often the go-to drugs for fevers or headaches, and NSAIDs are also used for body aches. The rare risks: Large daily doses of acetaminophen - more than 3,000 milligrams - can damage the liver and lead to liver failure. Drinking alcohol while taking acetaminophen can also cause liver damage. Long-term and even short-term NSAID use is linked to ulcers, stomach bleeding, kidney problems, high blood pressure, and increased risk for heart attack or stroke." "Memory Loss Although memory loss is a natural part of getting older, it may also be a side effect of certain medications. The most notable medication class that can result in memory loss is the nonbenzodiazepine sedative hyponotics, which include Ambien, Lunesta, and Sonata. These medications can sometimes cause amnesia and trigger potentially dangerous behaviors, such as cooking a meal, having sex, or driving a car with no recollection of the event upon awakening. Other medications that may result in memory loss include benzodiazepines, statins, certain seizure medications, opioids, and incontinence drugs." "Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a rare, life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction of the skin and mucous membranes. During SJS, large macules rapidly spread and form together, leading to blistering, necrosis, and shedding of the skin. Lamotrigine (Lamictal) has a relatively high incidence of SJS, especially when initiated at high doses, which led the FDA to require a black box warning on its package labeling to inform consumers of this risk. Other medications that may cause SJS include allopurinol (Zyloprim), acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), sulfa drugs, penicillin, barbiturates, and other anticonvulsants." "Suicidality This issue stems back to reports in 1990 that Paxil could lead to suicidality in patients. Today, all antidepressants have a black box warning in their labeling about the increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults with major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders. Current clinical evidence on the topic is inconclusive. Some studies have shown that the use of antidepressants correlates with increased risk of suicidal actions, while other studies have not demonstrated any increased risk. Other medications that may be associated with suicidal thinking and behavior include montelukast (Singulair), isotretinoin (Claravis), varenicline (Chantix), and mefloquine (Lariam)."

[@bikerfirefarter7280]

@@namename9998 f-me!. you've cured my insomnia.

[@robertatrimmer4764]

@@karlharvymarx2650 yep - Celtic Curse...

[@critterans6997]

Compartmental syndrom.

[@antonkristensson3218]

To be completely honest.. I think that these kinds of 'remedies' actually could be a good way to build resistances. As in using them proactively and not making the hayfever worse by gushing down some grasswater while the sniffles in running amok.

[@PolychromaticZero]

20:09 we have those growing wild at our local park, thankfully nobody seems to care about them and justs walks by. Last time i saw them in bloom, beautiful but deadly, however it may seem like that, we actually have bittersweet nightshades, less deadly but still toxic. Still a pretty good idea to avoid that!

[@SandHanitizerOnMyDogs]

“In the UK, there’s no legal regulation of homeopathic remedies.” British drug dealers: “This is where the fun begins.”

[@ridanann]

They say weed causes psychosis well if a little bit of what made you it was meant to heal you then skin my pet dogs eyelids I must need some weed lol No dogs were harmed during the making of this comment

[@Death_Lord_Eleressai]

@@ridanann No coherent sentences were written in the making of that comment either.

[@neidhartmuller8804]

@@ridanann i read this 5 times and am still unsure what you mean

[@ridanann]

@@neidhartmuller8804 lol 6th times a charm

[@ridanann]

@@dustind.291 i wona if comments can lol

[@randywithofapt2660]

I've always been a homeophobe.. wait.. wait.. gotta re-google, I'm having hell with these definitions.

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

ಠ_ಠ

[@randywithofapt2660]

@@SkylarsTerribleMemes Hahaa! Hey Skylar. Sorry, This one's the best meme I've got -> ; )

[@thevioletskull8158]

What

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

@@randywithofapt2660 i'm just,, not a big fan of homophobia...

[@shereens7374]

@@SkylarsTerribleMemes he didn't say 'homophobe'. Read that comment again lol

[@bubbercakes528]

My doctor has told me to quit taking vitamins and oil pills. I quit 6 months ago and my bloodwork is exactly the same. Over 45 years of buying vitamins for no reason!

[@grudgecollection182]

2:04 - 2:06 (total absence of rational thoughts). That was a very accurate, precise depiction.

[@markfergerson2145]

The question that homeopathy enthusiasts never want to hear: "What test can distinguish a prepared homeopathic solution from an equal volume of the pure solvent?"

[@desireer6915]

@@kirkhamandy LMAO

[@alleghenymusicacademy]

…and that being the case, why would Hyland’s risk using real poisons? Baffles me.

[@adambartlett114]

@@alleghenymusicacademy Because they are deluded idiots or liars & the best snake oil will cause some side effects to make people feel like it is doing something. If it has no effect they can feel, they won't buy the scam. As for the question, they would argue that its impossible for any control sample solvent to not be contaminated by its prior h history (if one accepts their lies as true). They will never offer any real test of its legitimacy because they know it will inevitably fail any such test because it is all a scam. Frankly, every pharmacy, health care provider & gov that enabled it;needs to be sued into oblivion for participating in this scam. Even deluded true believes, are equally guilty, as they could have made any effort to open their eyes & see the truth in front of them. It's k only because they ignored all the overwhelming evidence it's bs & a scam. It's like when people who are being catfished & act as an accomplice by allowing the scammer to have other victims send money to them & then they forward it to the scammer. That is a crime that the victims of these scams can be & are prosecuted for. Just because you believed the bs scam was real, legal, etc. & even if you yourself are victimized by the scammers; you still have no right to enable the scammers to abuse others & are fully liable for the consequences of such crime.

[@ripvanwinkle9648]

"I see that their ethics have been diluted as well -- 6C at least." - I am dying here. The odds of running into a single iota of ethics at this dilution is -- yeah, they don't have any, do they?

[@fishbones2]

My great uncle was a homeopathic doctor. The people in my small town thought he was great at curing pneumonias, before penicillin became widely available. He passed a year after I was born back in '57. His wife my great aunt was a nurse and assisted him in his practice. He was blinded when he was a young doctor, when he got hit in the eye with a baseball. He still practiced for decades after that accident with her assistance. My aunt still had access to his many medicines after he passed. One day she gave my mother these little white cold pills for us kids. She told my mother to give us one at the first sign of a cold. So my mother started giving us these pills. They tasted like sugar so went down easily. But we were still coming down with colds and missing school. The next time our aunt visited my mother asked her why they did not seem to work? Aunty replied that you must not have given them soon enough! So that was my only experience with homeopathy growing up.

[@VaxtorT]

The consumption of fruits always seemed to best relieve my headaches; what very few I have ever had.

[@FlawedFabrications]

To be fair to trepanning, it was an ancient emergency surgery performed to release the pressure of blood built up under the skull after a head injury and AFAIK it tended to work if you survived the risks involved. Supposedly the survival rate of trepanation was actually higher than you'd think, too.

[@Recoil1808]

And there were a few people who have.... ...."self-trepennated" themselves because crazy religion.

[@troublemaker9899]

The problem was the same with bloodletting. "Doctor" has not been a credentialed profession until the last century or two at best. Anyone could proclaim themselves to be a healer, and to be fair the procedures of the day (Bloodletting, Trepanning, etc.) were not difficult to pick up and do correctly for the general population. However, a lack of knowledge or formal training let to the overprescription of such practices, such as all of the minute and banal things that bloodletting was prescribed to "cure" back in the day. Trepanning was just so overprescribed to any number of ailments, and with antibiotics not being invented until the time of World War 1, World War 2, secondary infections and death often followed. It was just a bad time to get healed back then.

[@Dysputant]

There where found pre bronze age skulls with holes...and people survived. Cut with stone tools... as long you dont stab brain, or get infection body is quite resiliant.

[@troublemaker9899]

@@Dysputant Therein lies the caveat. "as long as you don't get infection". Sure, people CAN survive. I'd rather not take my chances, though, especially when it's prescribed as a crackpot cure to something it has nothing to do with. I think a hole in my skull would actually make a headache worse.

[@crispinharperw5569]

It is effective for pressure as u say. Also for getting more oxygen directly to the brain through direct exposure. Something one could try before a debate perhaps

[@klausantitheistbolvig8372]

Brilliant. Placebo is quite strange even knowing it’s placebo there seems to be an effect.

[@klausantitheistbolvig8372]

Im not defending homeopathy , I just mentioned placebo apparently even knowing you are getting a tablet with no effect, do have an effect. ( beyond statistics) Brilliant was a comment to our host. You can claim everything as long you don’t provide any evidence. And if you listen to Bertrand Russell, Dawkins, Hitchens etc debating believers ridiculous statements it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out why I uses atheist as my middle name 😊.

[@ssjduelistDD]

It's really interesting stuff, I studied it a lot at uni and so many studies show sugar pills having a podituve effect despite the user knowing their sugar pills. It comes down to personality types and susceptibility. It's the same reason hypnosis works on only certain people.

[@sweetpea9347]

Brilliant. You are like a fine wine, you get better with age. 🤩

[@chrisleach4245]

15:28 I must say that there’s a sucker born every minute. We now have a way of identifying them all.😂😂

[@aranos6269]

I think there is something to water memory. When I capsized in rapids, water remembering the liveliness of the stream gave me much strength. I got out incredibly quickly. It was bloody freezing. 😊

[@michaelrose93]

I don't know about the UK, but here in the USA, plenty of our prescription pills leave much to be desired as well. Not that homeopathy is great, but many alternative medicines do exist that actually work.

[@daniellebaker5723]

The level of sarcasm in this video is far higher than most others. Is it just me??

[@buffplums]

2:06 Ron Jeremy when he was younger 😂😂😂

[@tmutant]

Leeches are actually useful in (VERY) limited circumstances. They can be used to keep post-surgical swelling from causing nerve damage in fingers and toes. That's just one of...one use for medicinal leeches.

[@niceguyjake4718]

Next title: "The sweet taste of death" Or "Death is sweeter than you think" Maybe even "Deadly white powder that isn't what you think"

[@niceguyjake4718]

@Mohd Sadiq He already changed it lol

[@nonstop7255]

What's wrong w him changing the titles everytime

[@niceguyjake4718]

@@nonstop7255 Nothing is wrong its just fun trying to guess what he will change it to next.

[@niceguyjake4718]

@Mohd Sadiq He just changed it a second time🤣

[@nonstop7255]

@@niceguyjake4718 nah I'm saying what the fuck is wrong w him, why is he changing the titles every damn time?

[@Xxlibra1018xX]

I'd imagine that queen Elizabeth's emergency homeopathic kit consists of, highly diluted of course, insects of whatever variety that lizards eat, and newborns

[@Chris-rh9ej]

“Muddy puddles” a British person saying this just makes me remember the days my kids watched peppa pig and I’d rather not 😂

[@Nyctophora]

What you say is very sensible and true - it does 'work' for some people, but that's the placebo effect - but I want to say that homeopathy is not the same as herbal medicine. ... I mean there's not any herb left in homeopathy, after all. If I chew some mint leaves to soothe my tummy, they contain a carminative, so I burp and feel better. If I take 'homeopathically diluted Mentha' then I am going to keep on feeling miserable. If I chew any old leaves because eh, looks close enough, I am not likely to do well. If I take a minty antacid from a popular, and clinically approved brand that rhymes with 'pennies' then I will also feel safely better (even if all I can taste is chalk now). Education is so important, both in what we choose to take or not take and in knowing enough to make an informed choice. I thought homeopathy might be funded because it's cheap but looking at those figures it's not! Thanks for the video, Thoughty, you are funny and informative but this time you might also be saving lives.

[@AsobiMedio]

It's funded and so expensive for the simple reason that when given a large enough population, there will be people that will buy your bullshit regardless of the cost. The same reason why flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, and climate change deniers exist. When you're given a sample size of nearly 8 billion your bound to find at least a few million brainless fools.

[@mabeSc]

Homeopathy and natural medicine are two completely different things! Many modern medicines were derived from natural chemical compounds separated from various species of plants. Some anti-cancer drugs , the classic aspirin (that led to the creation of the ubiquitous NSAIDs) , anti-choligernics for nausea and motion-sickness (many compounds from the Belladonna plant are sold OTC in the UK for nausea - hyoscyamine etc.) , painkillers (morphine and its derivatives are the most used and most popular painkillers for severe pain in hospitals) and morphine in fact hasn't even been changed at a molecular level , just purified , made into salt form and put into a pill. Big difference between taking a 600C Homeopathic opium solution and a bit of opium ;) . Natural medicine can be both deadly and useful , but why risk it when you can have the useful compounds already extracted , isolated and properly dosed in a pill - prescribed to you by a medical professional which has studied for many years?

[@victor9sur768]

Herbal medicines are subject to same very stringent laws and regulations that other pharmaceuticals are, they have to be sourced, manufactured and quality assured under GMP (good manufacturing practise) and ICH (International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use) this prevents a lot of the cowboy style drugs that used to be sold, like pills that would contain too much or too little active ingredient. These guidelines and laws are used by drug administrations/regulatory bodies to determine if a company can have a license to sell a particular product in a country (MHRA - UK, FDA - USA, BfArM - Germany). So even things like mint (menthol) extract pills have to manufactured under a controlled environment. However, because homeopathy products have a crap tonne of legal behind them and very clever phrasing they don't advertise themselves directly as a medical product for human consumption. As such they are not privy to the GMP and ICH guidelines, meaning they can be made, distributed and sold wherever. However, there are some loopholes in producing very potent things in say China, where manufacturing laws can be "flexible" at best, then importing them into a country as a mundane object and then you have a problem i.e. fentanyl.

[@cronoslogic]

Indeed, naturopathic medicine should never be confused with the homeopathic nonsense.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@mabeSc Why not go to the "modernized equivalent"??? Oh... I don't know. Have you seen how many ongoing Class-action Lawsuits are being brought to the forefront against "Big Pharma" Companies??? From "contaminants" in Diabetes treatments causing infections, shutting down kidneys, and even cancer, to a host of Pain killers with either too much or too little or some other contaminant related issue (often also resulting in cancer)... Hell, Johnson and Johnson is still under fire for selling Talc for so many years while they KNEW there were traces of asbestos (and KNEW asbestos was a carcinogen)... Maybe I can afford 3 or 4 days of my "herbal treatments" and see if it doesn't work out... You know, slightly before I go betting my life on a cocktail of industrial chemicals and whatever half-assed undertrained lab assistants mixed or monitored the machines in the Pfizer factory... My own brother works in "Calibrations" which is to say, his job is to make sure that a Kilogram in YOUR lab is the same exact Kilogram as the one in a Lab in London, UK, or Paris, France... etc... He makes sure that when your torque wrench reads up "125 ft-pounds", that it's REALLY 125 ft-pounds. ...AND about every week he and I share a call. More weeks than not, he's complaining (as you do with a high stress job) mostly about having to go behind someone else and fix all the Calibrations that they have F***ed up... or not bothered to do when they signed off on the "Cert" stickers, and logged it into the records... It's frightening to think about, but the fact that there aren't more recalls, Class action lawsuits, and horrible stat's on modern drugs killing people is probably nothing short of miraculous... There are levels of negligence out there that you would not want to believe. Don't get me wrong. If I figure out in that 3 or 4 days that my herbal stuff and natural immune system aren't going to fix what ails me, I DO have the damn sense to go see a doctor... I am not incapable of dialing 911, either. BUT for the vast majority of whatever has ailed me, instead of two aspirin, I can drink my willow tea mixed with a mint green or something else I can enjoy... I can drink it every morning and night for months without harm... AND if I should end up in some accident that sticks me into the hospital, there's no likely interaction to worry about. ;o)

[@justamanofculture12]

*Thoughty2* selling *mustache water?* *Me:* "Shut up and take my money 💸💵💴💶. I'll buy your entire stock."

[@solanaceae2069]

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.” -Paracelsus

[@Divineearthangel777]

My mom is a medical doctor who became a homeopath because it was the only treatment that cured her migraines, so …

[@bobdrooples]

A medical doctor... knowingly decided to sell sugar pills with no actual ingredients in them? What other batshit stuff did she do to get struck off?

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

People will try everything to cure a migraine but drink some water

[@threestans9096]

your mom had psychosomatic migraines. the entire theory behind homeopathy is water has memory and less is literally more effective. half of a half of a half of a half of a half of an aspirin is *stronger* than 4 aspirin. to follow this willingly and to know that stuff is one of the dumbest things ive ever heard.

[@felderup]

so, unlike the regular person that confuses homeopathy with herbals... considering the efficacy of homeopathy, maybe it was emotional problems, not a real thing causing her migraines.

[@derekboyt3383]

Water can be a VERY effective treatment for many sicknesses. In fact an IV saline drip can save a life in many instances. Also, having a steam can help with respiratory problems or other skin problems. Water also helps cleans the body of toxicity as long as it doesn’t have toxins in it.

[@azadalamiq]

heck i took a dissolvable pill that suppose to help with sore throat and it does help, not a placebo as i never figured it would.

[@YT-po2vp]

Then title it a "water" treatment, not a homeopathic cure with added deadly ingredients.

[@ratemisia]

@@azadalamiq actually, just because you don't believe it'll work doesn't prevent it from having placebo effects! They will be reduced, but not gone in most people.

[@seajaye9540]

Well yeah Derek, because you pee constantly. It's like that meme says about drinking 2 liters of water a day to help reduce stress, because you are peeing so much you don't have time for people's bullshit. Peeing constantly actually does exactly what that function is for, removal of toxins in the blood stream. The more you pee the more efficient that process becomes. 😂

[@softback132]

I'd buy that Moustache Water

[@Thomas..Anderson]

Me to. But where? Where?

[@heavygustav]

Me too

[@jackfowler6249]

So would I.

[@mattar8363]

I would too but man, too bad it's still no simp september.

[@doratheexplorer8274]

@@mattar8363 ikr

[@StackedOdds76]

Chemotherapy should be on the list too as you mentioned it. Chemotherapy kills everything not just cancer

[@Darvit_Nu]

Fact: Blood letting was originally done by barbers and that's why a barber's shop had a white pole with a red spiral.

[@Sandi_shores_lands_fish]

Oh.... I always thought it was because those were "men's places" and because of the nudie magazines they had under the counters just like I put together poles in clubs meant a very adult thing happened there

[@bigpapadrew]

ah yes, alternative medicine. do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? "medicine".

[@Lucas-Nunes]

Well there is an alternative to medicine... It's dying

[@pele220]

you know what they call the rest of it ? crap

[@bigcrackrock]

If it isn't able to be sold by the pharmaceutical industry with a wide enough profit margin then it isn't worthy of being called medicine anymore. Natural medicine or way more often bullshit is a huge market with lots of bogus stuff, but natural substances that have an effect on the body or mind are 100% a reality and therefor can be used to treat certain conditions. You have to do your research and make the decision if it"s worth a try based on the severity of your problem but you should do the same thing with prescriptions or before getting any kind of treatment because blind faith in the pharmaceutical and medical industry can end up messing you up every bit as bad. When I was younger and more naive I took unnecessary medications and even had a pointless surgery, both of which can lead to worse problems down the line. My brother had back surgery and the surgeon neglected to check to see if he had narrow spinal column and he has barely been able to walk for many years now because of it. My mother just got a call the other week about one of her medications causing cancer. At the rate a lot of this shit is pushed through it's not much better than any random snake oil you can buy from a hippie. The medical industry is gouging us every bit as hard for our money too.

[@ThatTieDyeGuy]

actually the herbal remedies laws in the states, makes this murkey... lots of snake oil and pharma companies protecting their profits.

[@bodyshoplaboratories501]

What about medicine that works that is not approved like the more than half dozen cancer cures? At some point some of these will be permitted. Remember that hand washing and instrument sterilization was once fringe thinking as was vaccination. We need to be very careful with what we ridicule.

[@derekboyt3383]

I’ve engaged in bloodletting at the local donation center many times over the last two decades. The only benefit I’ve ever heard is that it rids the body of excessive iron in men (not women because of menstrual cycles). Obviously there is also a benefit because it saves people’s lives but the focus here is on the donor rather than the recipient. Anyone else heard of benefits from “bloodletting?”

[@spiderace7994]

It's like when the school nurse prescribes Ice

[@curious9904]

ive done it once out of curiosity but thats about it lol, since i heard it was a medieval medical practice and i wanted to see how stupid it was

[@Avarren]

Yes, it’s one of the treatments for polycythemia vera - a type of blood cancer where your body makes too many red blood cells.

[@wallamazoo01]

I am a person who gets a lot of nose bleeds. sometimes a headache is a precursor. The cause is both thinning of the membrane wall in my nostril, but also because the veins are also very sensitive. I haven't seen the benefit of it, but I certainly haven't died from a nose bleed that lasted for seven hours as a kid, and it's generally known that cuts and abrasions in the nose or on the face bleed much more than on any other part of the body.

[@shandyhein5039]

Hemachromatosis, genetic dysfunction of metabolism of iron. Blood letting saved my life...almost 5 gallon in 2.5 years. Research.... could save a life

[@brunobertoline3003]

09:18 I don't usually laugh but this was so unexpected that I'm in tears.

[@honedrazorblade]

The pharma companies must love this guy.

[@J8den]

Why is there a rambutan fruit in the thumbnail.... He changed it lol

[@boyfriendforevvv]

It's still the thumbnail. I just ate some rambutan. Is it poisonous or something 😂

[@Helpmegetsubswithnovideo-nn6oq]

@@boyfriendforevvv people said that if you eat the nut you'll most likely die

[@melyssalayrensia]

He still use rambutan picture, i thought there were some correlations but apparently not. Rambutan is delicious, why did he do it?

[@boyfriendforevvv]

@@Helpmegetsubswithnovideo-nn6oq oh lol well I'd hope people are eating the seed. Doesn't seem very tasty!