Broken arms? Well, try Symphytum after the Arnica (Homepathic version of Comphrey - old country name being KNit Bone) My son was run over and taken to hospital, xrays showed a fractured ankle, bandaged up and sent home to return in a few days after the swelling to the Fracture clinic for plastering. Treated homeopathically, then re-xrayed - no fracture (yes it wasn't the other leg they'd x-rayed by mistake).

Fact: double blind tests here and in Canada have produced empiric data that patients who did not know that they were receiving healing, recovered quicker than other patients who were not given healing.

Fact: Surgeons now use techniques using maggots, leeches and honey (not all at the same time and for different reasons!)

I don't get off on crystals and I've met many a dodgy Grand Reiki Master without a Brownie Badge in First Aid to his name who's been "attuned" at vast expense let loose on the gullible public - but Homeopathy CAN work. I'm sorry the ME thing didn't produce instant results - but some friends lost their 17 year-old to a rare form of lung cancer and they acknowledge that her Homeopath bought her another 12 months and made the chemotherapy easier by potentising it as a remedy.

I think the thing with Homeopathy is that it doesn't always give the result looked for/expected - depending on the remedy (mental/physical). I took a psychological constitutional remedy a few years ago and the disfiguring warts on my hand (been there 12 years and starting to spread in quantum bounds) disappeared within 8 days. Which cheered me up no end! And have never reappeared.

Cheers HIlle