Homeopathic Products

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Consumers usually equate homeopathic products with medicines or natural remedies. Not so!  Invented by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, homeopathy is the practice of treating illness by providing a patient with repeatedly diluted substances which would, in normal concentrations, elicit those same symptoms associated with your illness.  The more the product is diluted, the stronger its ability to treat your condition.  Make sense? Not so much. 

 

So why  are so many  "homeopathic remedies" (from Hyland's, Boiron, and Similasan to "store brand" copies and products like Cold-Eeze) marketed in your local drug store?  Homeopathic products are legally allowed to make heightened health claims, even without qualifying as drugs.  So even if it's not good medicine, it's good business to designate your product a homeopathic product, and expand your advertised claims.  And why the special treatment for homeopathic remedies?  No good reason.  But in 1938, the sponsor of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act just happened to be Senator Royal Copeland (b. 1868 d. 1938).  A homeopathic physician.

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Since 2016, the FTC has related that companies should almost always label homeopathic products with a warning that these remedies have absolutely no scientific basis.  In fact, the FTC stated that an appropriate warning for most homeopathic remedies would explicitly disclose the 1700s foundation of homeopathy, and the complete lack of scientific basis. Since then, though, homeopathic producers have made every effort to minimize those details, to protect their "legitimacy" and their sales.  

 

If you purchased a homeopathic product based on advertising that didn't include a full disclosure warning, didn't see that warning, or didn't understand that warning, then the manufacturer duped you, probably others, and broke the law.  Send us a note, let us know what you bought, let us get your money back, and help others get a full disclosure included going forward!

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