Quote Originally Posted by TsPoet View Post
Homeopathic treatments have as many side effects and drug interactions as "drugs" do. They are chemicals, just like the processed drugs, and since they aren't purified the way the manufactured are, they can have more interactions and more side effects. They are also often given at higher doses, which again increases the possibility of adverse outcomes.
Nep, nep, nep. Maybe you're confusing "herbal" vs. "homeopathic."

Homeopathic treatments, by definition, are given at minuscule doses. When a homeopathic remedy is labeled, say, 6C, it's a dilution of 1:1,000,000,000,000. The extreme dilution is actually the criticism that allopathic practitioners most commonly raise against homeopathic theory. For the same reason, allopathic practitioners and the FDA recognize that homeopathic treatments have no drug interactions and no side effects (except for the possibility that a patient is extremely sensitive or allergic to the base, most commonly lactose tablets).

Standard allergy immunotherapy is a form of homeopathy (or technically, homotoxicology). OTC homeopathic allergy treatments work exactly the same way, except that the dosage isn't titrated to the patient.

Homeopathic treatments are purified as carefully as pharmaceuticals and regulated by the FDA under the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States.



WRT the potential trigger: pine, like almost all trees, pollinates in the spring. In most of the northern hemisphere it's weed season - ragweed, lamb's quarters, pigweed, etc. - and molds may be high, too. Two of my dogs were very sensitive to weed pollens.