hmm. I'm not sure sure homeopathy enters the realm of medicine for me. I meant doctors, licensed physicians who go against mainstream medicine and practice things that actually help people, like chelation. Don't get me wrong though, I love healing herbs and natural remedies, they are my number 1, but i just am not even close to being convinced anything in homeopathoc amounts would be effective against something as ferocious as mercury or lead, cadmium, whatever. Though a teaspoon or two of cilantro did help my headaches early on, but still a full teaspoon is way above homeopathic amounts. I have used homeopathic tinctures way way back in the past, i found them utterly ineffective for anything past mood lifting.

But anyway, not everyone agrees with cutler, Bex. here for instance is a page from a Dr with an autistic kid which says this somewhere down in the middle. i think it's obvious who she's talking about:

Finally, there are as many dosing schedules for DMSA as there are practitioners who make claims about it. As perhaps a ridiculous extreme, one practitioner has asserted that DMSA must be given every two to three hours around the clock! This person also insists that failure to follow this schedule will result in more mercury being deposited in the brain. Fortunately, this is absolutely wrong! Doses as infrequent as once a week have been effective at removing mercury and lead, although at a much slower rate than the recommended dosing schedule of three times a day.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/07/file-under-things-that-call-for-cdc.html

She also mentions that ongoing DMSA use can cause bone marrow or liver problems and that it should not be used for more than 6 months.