Those Who Criticise Homeopathy Are "Ignorant and Stupid"

Health 2000 company chairperson Bob McDonald has labelled sceptics who staged a protest on homeopathic remedies as “ignorant and stupid".

Mr McDonald, who manages Ashburton’s Health 2000 shop, said homeopathic remedies, such as arnica cream and tablets and hayfever tablets, were popular with many customers.

“People aren’t buying them if they aren’t getting results,” Mr McDonald said.

The remedies are created by heavily diluting products from the plant, animal and mineral worlds.

The products in their natural form would stimulate the exact type of reaction that in their heavily diluted form they apparently deter.

For example, the plant Arnica montana in its natural form causes haemorraging and bruising if consumed, but in its heavily diluted form is found to soothe and heal bruising.

Mr McDonald said while homeopathic remedies made up just 5 to 10% of the shop’s sales, the industry itself was a worldwide billion dollar one.

This was simply because people found they got results from the products, and sceptics were just “bigoted and close-minded” as well as “ignorant and stupid” for discounting this.

While the products were diluted there was still minute doses of them in the remedy, and these only had an effect if taken in small amounts.

‘Overdosing’ would negate the effect.

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