If you’ve been around Homeopathy for more than five minutes, you’ve heard it all before:
“It’s just placebo.”
“There’s nothing in it.”
“It’s mind over matter.”
“It’s only water.”
Blah blah blah
I get it. On the surface, Homeopathy does not make sense to the modern mind. Tiny doses. Individualised prescriptions. It doesn’t fit neatly into a reductionist box, so it gets dismissed.
But here’s the thing.
People’s lived experience keeps telling a different story.
I send out follow up forms to my clients. One of the questions I ask is:
“Are you noticing any difference in your emotions?”
258 people responded.
What you’ll see in the diagram below is not theory. It’s not belief. It’s not philosophy. It’s feedback
Nearly 75 percent said yes, they were noticing an emotional shift.
Another 16 percent said maybe, something was changing but it was subtle or still unfolding.
Less than 9 percent said no.
That means over 9 out of 10 people noticed something moving, emotionally.
This matters.
Because emotional change is one of the hardest things to fake. It’s not like pain relief where you can talk yourself into feeling better for an hour. Emotional shifts show up in how you respond to stress, how reactive you are, how heavy or light your inner world feels.
This is often where the placebo argument falls apart. (Aside from the fact that babies, children, animals and even plants respond to Homeopathy, so ……. but I digress).
Placebo does not create consistent patterns across hundreds of people.
Placebo does not produce similar themes of emotional softening, resilience, calm, or release.
Placebo does not keep showing up quietly, again and again, in different bodies and different lives.
Homeopathy works because it speaks to the nervous system.
Because it meets the whole person, not just a symptom.
Because when the body feels safer, emotions shift.
That doesn’t mean Homeopathy is magic.
And it certainly doesn’t mean it works instantly or perfectly for everyone.
What it does mean is this.
When people say “Homeopathy doesn’t work,” what they usually mean is “I don’t understand how it works.”
And that’s okay.
But dismissing thousands of lived experiences, including data like this, says more about our discomfort with what we can’t measure easily than it does about Homeopathy itself.
You don’t have to believe in Homeopathy for it to work.
You just have to pay attention.
And people are.
And honestly, if people want to poo-pooh Homeopathy or not try it, I honour that too. I’m not here to force anyone to do anything. I don’t want reluctant people coming to my door. I want people who WANT to heal. Because I know that I - Homeopathy - and they themselves, can make that happen.
Is it your turn?
In wellness, Kirsty xo