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It's worse than that. It's not just that the homeopathic preparation is vastly unlikely to contain any of the so-called "active" ingredient. It's that the active ingredient CAUSES the symptom that the preparation is intended to cure.
You take a substance, you give it to a person, and you see what happens to them. Say they get nauseated. Fine, so then you take some of that substance and put it in water. Then you dilute it like crazy. The more diluted it gets, the more powerful it "is". Now that water retains a vibrational memory of the substance that causes nausea--and the less there is actually IN that water, the more strongly it "wants" that substance. When someone experiencing nausea takes this preparation, the water will pull from their body the substance that causes that symptom.
Which, from a scientific point of view, is perhaps marginally better than holding a vibrating tuning fork against your head and whistling for UFOs. There's no reason at all that that should work.
I'm sticking to my guns on this one: if somebody's taking it, and it seems to be helping, and there's no reason to think they're harming themselves by taking it, then it's helping, and it's an act of purest egotism to try to talk them out of it.
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