#like no hate if homeopathy helps you but I'm just here like

[chaos-has-theories]

You've heard of "you're not autistic, you're just highly sensitive", now get ready for: You're not autistic, you just have a

psychosomatic

energetic

generational-trauma induced

✨salt deficiency✨

I hereby prescribe you highly diluted table salt that should clear that depression right up

[iatrophilosophos]

Homeopathy is such an interesting strawman. So many people have Big opinions about it, to the point I've met people who 1) hate homeopathy 2) didn't know herbalism and homeopathy are not one in the same.

And like....yah homeopathic products exist but they're not particularly unique within the canon of predatory health-related-products (a category which, mind, contains just as many claims made by western medical doctors as it does crystals) and. Uh. Y'know. Being pretty steeped in the milieu of crunchy alt health, I don't know anyone who uses homeopathy. I know a small handful of people who use spiritual healing practices that are like, idk fairly similar? But this is a like, going to do ritual with plants and be healed by spirits kind of deal, not a buying products kind of deal (& I think maybe one person I know maybe like, does some sort of education or writing about this practice but is also like. 1) not selling anything 2) not in the business of telling anyone what they should do and definitely not about to recommend someone forego more practical options or higher care). This is not something I do personally and also I do not give half a shit if other ppl do it bc I'm not a paternalist asshole.

People absolutely buy homeopathic products and shit, but I mostly see this as indistinct from buying crystals or nootropics or VitalMale Vitamin Blend or coquette girl wine replacer mushroom powder whatever. Like there are people who get really into all of these but they're just products--just another brand of "fill the hole in your soul caused by civilization and/or make us rich off your desperation and anxiety caused by the dogshit state-sanctioned medical apparatus"

Idk I think probably people rail on homeopathy bc it's the most ~obviously bullshit~ but this doesn't really. Help anyone, bc homeopathy is spiritual/energetic medicine which means ur scientific critiques are gonna be irrelevant to anyone who's interested in it bc it's just not about science,* and painting homeopathy as The Big Bad kind of sets up this expectation that the problem with predatory health-related-products is a lack of science, which like....homie u can pull a study for literally anything and science is fucking whack and corrupt as shit sometimes.

...the point remains, as always, that hierarchical healing and medical authority/subservience Are Bad And Get People Hurt, switching around who should be in a position of authority (ur local gp, the CDC, fucking Alex Jones, some lady on tiktok etc) does nothing to reduce the vulnerability and harm baked into the frameworks of western medicine**, and, as always, the way to resist medical coercion and predation is to foster autonomy, critical thinking, and education in that order.

*if anyone's curious, I would say the correct argument here is "do you seriously fucking trust a for-profit company to sell a spiritual product and be remotely honest about any part of its production".

**which are culturally present in the healer-patient relationships of predatory alternative health, regardless of if the content of that exchange is based in western medicine