Have any of you ever tried Rescue Remedy drops and do they work?

Yes, for about six months on advice of a nutritionist. A waste of money for me, but it never hurts to try. It’s pretty benign, in any case.

(Aside: The nutritionist, after his wife left him and took their young daughter with her, put on 50 lbs. really fast. He was found, crumpled over a picnic table in his back yard, dead at 36 from a heart attack.)

They probably have a placebo effect, but nothing else.

I’ve tried them. Ágree with the above. It wouldn’t hurt to try though. A placebo effect can be as good as the rest.

I haven’t used them on myself, but I did use them on both of my babies when they went off on crying jags. It worked for them. Calmed them down in about a minute or so.

They didn’t work at all for me. Maybe with very slight nervousness they’d work. loll

I swear by them for my dog with thunderstorms. They work really well.

For calming myself down, I use Calms Forte.

I’ve used it, and yes it helps. It was remarkable to see what it did for my dog when we took her to the vet. In the presence of the vet I gave her a drop in her mouth. Inside of 30 seconds she went from terrified and trying to escape to calmly walking around the room sniffing. Very cool!

These remedies are sensitive to electrical fields, and it is possible to ruin one just by leaving it too long in an electrical field, or letting it get too hot.

They never did much for me. Supposedly they work on a “vibratory” level, so the results are supposed to be subtle. I would not rely on them if you were having a panic attack or something.

Placebo effects work on animals and babies too.

Oh, yes. I love that good ol’ placebo effect. Yessir. serve me up a double helping!

It worked OK for me, but I wonder how much of it was because it uses BOOZE as some sort of agent. I can’t remember what the homeopath told me why it had brandy (I think it’s brandy) in it.

I don’t drink alcohol at all. I used it for a bit, and it worked, but I think it’s because I don’t drink and I’m very sensitive to the effects of alcohol. I don’t get tipsy off it or anything, but I think the few drops of booze probably work to calm me down. They say there’s not much alcohol in it, but when I used the drops, All I could taste was the alcohol.

Then I was WTF, if it’s just the booze, then it would be cheaper to just have a little bit of brandy and put some drops on your tongue. But I’d feel weird to have a flask of booze and an eyedropper in my purse. So I just stopped altogether.

@keobooks good point!

@kebooks Hmmm, since the directions say to use no more than 4 drops, you must be VERY sensitive to alcohol.

It’s been scientifically tested- many, many times.

It didn’t work.

Just didn’t work.

All these trials- and it doesn’t work.

Nope- still doesn’t work.

@gailcalled That’s so sad about the nutritionist. :-(

Physician, heal thyself. He forgot that. It was, indeed, tragic.

ROFL, and I could/can name more than a few medical doctors who were/are nut cases too. Seriously, it is a sad story, but just because someone had something unfortunate happen to him does not mean that the remedy does or does not work.

@snowberry

Yeah, but all the dozens of studies that show it doesn’t work are pretty good testimony that it doesn’t work.

Yes I have used Rescue Remedy and it works to a certain extent. I have also given it to my dog when she has been panicked by fireworks or a storm.

@Dr Dredd and @crisw yes, I have read your links.

I was holding off on saying this, but now I’m going to. I’ve used Bach Flower reliably on my animals for several years, with good results. I cannot say the same for the thousands of dollars I’ve spent for a number of other medications and procedures performed by medical doctors that I have paid for hoping they would work, but did not.

Another example: I have used Oscillococcinum (for flu) for close to 17 years. I have seen it work on a fairly large number of people consistently through the years, time in and time out. None of our family members receives the flu shot any more because we don’t need it (and we are not unusually healthy). I have a son in law (medically and scientifically trained) who was very skeptical about Oscillo. Out of desperation he used it one day. He says “I know there’s no ‘scientific’ reason for it to work, but it sure does!” and now he’s a convert and tells others about it as well.

So these remedies “don’t work”. OK, I’ve got that. If it is the placebo effect that makes it works (or whatever other mechanism it is that’s causing it to work for me and my friends) as you say, that’s pretty durned good results in my book. I’m willing to buy any product that works by “placebo effect” with that kind of track record!

What puzzles me is that you attack remedies like this (and on other threads other alternative methods) with an almost religious zeal, and the energy you apply to your arguments is astounding. Could there be an agenda behind this? Possibly, but maybe it’s just my imagination.

@snowberry I didn’t post any links or attack anything, unlike you who use the term “nut cases” for some doctors.

@Dr Dredd Sorry about the reference to the nutritionist being a nut case. I have been pretty vehemently attacked by many on this site because of my stand regarding alternative medicine. I assumed folks were making disparaging remarks about the nutritionist as well.