babinro said:
I have no way to disprove anything
You can disprove one basic concept of homeopathy (diluting things makes them more potent) right now in your own kitchen. Take a drink of anything, properly prepared to your liking. Dilute the fuck out of it. Is the resulting drink stronger or weaker? Chemistry says it should be weaker, because the drink molecules are more spread out among the water, so every sip you take is going to contain more water than drink. And if you dilute things the homeopathic way (where you take a portion of the first solution and put it in a new container of water) then you'll have fewer drink molecules altogether. Again, chemistry says fewer molecules = weaker. Homeopathy says the opposite, claiming that water has a memory. Which seems more plausible to you?
It just feels wrong that she never truly wanted to get rid of weekly migraines for all her life up to that point despite having tried for decades to do so.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Just to be clear, I'm not claiming that she was cured by the placebo affect. I'd actually bet that something else had changed (diet, stress levels, medications for other issues, etc) and that the homeopathy simply coincided with whatever actually cured the headaches.
I will choose to believe what the HP did worked beyond mind games and coincidence. Unless I could get proof from the HP herself that she did nothing beyond a placebo remedy.
You prefer to believe that diluting things makes them stronger (something which you can disprove, right now, in your home kitchen) over believing that something else caused your mom to get better and simply happened at the same time she took this particular treatment (which isn't that big of a stretch, if she'd been trying lots of different things to get better--one of them was bound to coincide with her recovery even if none of them caused it)?