You just reminded me that my mum was big on homeopathy and regularly gave me homeopathic sand as a kid: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?set...

She also liked Bach flower remedies, and took one in particular for her memory…

She now has severe Alzheimer’s and, conversationally speaking, is no better than a Markov chain with a ~1000 symbol vocabulary.