Edzard Ernst on Bonkers Homeopathic Berlin Wall Remedy: It's "the Vital Force, the Spiritual Force"

here, some criticism of homeopathy by the great Edzard Ernst and some musings: 

001. at telegraph.co.uk, Henry Bodkin writes in "Queen's Homeopathic Pharmacist Selling Pills Made From Berlin Wall"  we're told: 

"Ainsworths, which has held a Royal warrant since 1980 and also supplies the Prince of Wales [...] the Queen’s homeopathic pharmacist is selling ground-down fragments of the Berlin Wall [...a] 'remedy' is made by grinding down pieces of the Cold War relic and diluting it multiple times with lactose, water and alcohol [...] to people who believe it will cure asthma and depression [...] asthma, headaches, aggression, depression, and insomnia [...and] is charging up to £114 for a large bottle of tablets [...]"; 

I'm surprised it doesn't treat indecisiveness, like when one feels split down the middle! Bifurcated!

"[an now for some explanatory 'theory', and I put it in quotes because homeopathy's ideas are not theory in any kind of scientific sense, by a physician who once practiced the thing] Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of contemporary medicine at Exeter University [...] who criticizes the homeopathic remedy in a new book [...] said producers believe the tablets convey a 'spiritual force' capable of bringing people together [ah, yes, the lebenskraft...] 'homeopaths do not believe it is a pharmacological action, but it is a sort of vital force that is acting,' [...] so the vital force, the spiritual force that was in the Berlin Wall, the intention that was in the Berlin Wall, is in the remedy' [...]";

aka sympathetic magic.  That would be classical Hahnemannian 'theory'.

"[there have been] warnings that vulnerable patients are being exploited [...and Ernst states] 'it is not only bonkers but ineffective' [...]";

ya think?