I admit it. I wondered the other day if people might claim that homeopathy could be used for “breast enlargement”, so I Googled in order to bring you this latest bit of skepticism. I know, I know, homeopathy is such an easy target, but it must be done nonetheless. According to the makers of Elegance Elixer, one can use dowsing to determine if a product will give you more boobage. Once you determine that their product is right for you, you can grow 1-4 cups over 6-12 months, all for the low cost of $109.00. Here’s how it works: first, you use dowsing to determine if the product is right for you. Their version of “dowsing” includes “manual muscle testing.” “Manual muscle testing”, unfortunately, is an occupational therapy and physical therapy term that has been hijacked by alternative medicine. In OT and PT, manual muscle testing is a way of grading muscle strength. Basically, during a manual muscle test, a trained therapist applies pressure to a client’s upper or lower extremity, and grades their strength on a scale: 0 (no muscle activity) 1 (trace activity) 2 (part moves through full range of motion with gravity eliminated) 3 (part moves through full ROM against gravity) 4 (full ROM with moderate resistance) 5 (full ROM with max resistance). “Manual muscle testing” to alternative medicine practitioners means “tapping the body’s innate intelligence and determining thereby the energy levels of life forces that control the body.” To do alt-med MMT, you ask your body to show you a “yes” response, while pressing on a part, typically an arm. The body is supposed to resist the force you apply. You then ask your body to show you a “no” response, and while applying the same force, the body does not resist the force you apply. So, instructions from Elegance Elixir first teach you how to do alt-med MMT, and then instructs you to ask yourself, “Is elegance Elixir a means for my fastest and healthiest natural breast enhancement?” and, “is it possible for me to increase permanently by at least 1 cup using Elegance Elixir?” and your body simply knows the answer somehow. If your body answers yes, then you are supposed to either purchase an ebook ($25) or purchase the nostrum. The words, “RISK FREE” are written several times on this website. Apparently “risk-free” means that if your MMT tells you that Elegance Elixir will not work for you, then you don’t buy it. It does NOT mean that you can try it to see if it works, and return it if it does not work for your money back. If you buy the ebook, you cannot return it for a refund. If you buy the $109 elixir, then you must return the Elixir without opening it to get a partial refund. The $109 price tag includes the price of the ebook, which is not refundable. You also can’t just return the unopened product, either. You have to verify a “no” response with the company: “This system is only for the serious customer and is estimated to work for 85%+ of the general populace. However, there are unscrupulous parties may just ‘change’ their minds about using the product and say they indicate ‘no’. Verification keeps things honest. Also, if you are not accurate, we can provide information to get you on the right track! We want to make sure that we enable your success as much as possible. Keeping the instructions is consolation and also an enabler- no one else offers that. Again, you can use the information to see if any other products will work for you.” No one else offers you to keep the .pdf of the instructions? Really… well I’m sold. I cannot believe how ridiculous the return policy for this company is. They also claim that their products are organic and registered with the FDA. We’ll see about that. Elegance Elixir is also featured on this abysmally transparent advertizing website called “Pills research” which claims that some of the bonuses are “instructions.” Awesome. The pills supposedly claim Fenugreek and Saw Palmetto. According to the principals of homeopathy, substances which cause symptoms without dilution will cure those same symptoms if diluted and potentized. This means that smaller-than-you’d-like boobies must be an underlying condition to cure. Fenugreek and Saw Palmetto must then (according to the principals of homeopathy and the “law” of similar) cause your breasts to shrink when taken without dilution.
Mar 082010
Follow Ziztur on Twitter
I just had a flash of understanding about homeopathy!
If some substance causes a symptom, less of that substance should cause less of that symptom! And if you bring the amount of substance down to zero, it should not cause that symptom at all! And then if you further decrease the amount of substance until you have negative amounts of it, it should uncause the symptom! It all makes sense now!
I guess the problem is that homeopaths bring the amount of substance to zero and pretend it’ll have the same effects as negative amounts would. But it doesn’t work that way!
Ohhey, I just had a marginally less facetious idea.
Consider this: the placebo effect is well-known, well-documented, and ludicrously powerful. But you can’t just say “take two sugar pills and call me in the morning”, because everybody already knows what placebos are, and if you know you’re taking a placebo it won’t work (possibly unless you are aware of the power of placebos, but that gets into more recursion than I want to deal with).
The solution, to harness the placebo effect? Give people fake medicine while pretending it’s real medicine and hope nobody notices. Viola: homeopathy!
I can think of many better ways to harness the placebo effect, but most of them run into the problem that it is, in most jurisdictions, illegal for a doctor to lie to his patients about treatment. For that matter, homeopathy should run into that problem, too, but I guess the woo-woo lobby is ultra-powerful or something, I dunno.
Although, even though that kind of makes sense, I’m sure there aren’t actually many homeopaths who got into it by that line of reasoning, They’re probably mostly in it purely because of stupidity or greed.
PS: By “viola” I obviously meant “voilà”.
How does homeopathy work?
http://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
I can’t believe the garbage that people buy into. This homeopathy garbage should be outlawed because it actually gives medicine a bad name, and gets in the way of real science with a bunch of made up junk.
If you happen to stumble across something that make certain anatomical parts of both genders larger(scientifically), safely and permanently and nonsurgically, you’ll make a fortune though, which is what ploys like this feed off of.
Hahahahahaha. Robin, that’s awesome.
Homeopathic birth control should be easy. Start with a fertility drug . . .
Dude, I was totally going to go to that link Robin provided and destroy it. Turns out, it needs no destroying at all. Well played.
Wow this is a great resource.. I’m enjoying it.. good article