I agree with popa_bar_abba. I think many people view segulos as their guaranteed way to X, and when that (often enough) doesn’t occur, they feel slighted. I like oomis’s way of explaining it… it is the higher spiritual level one may achieve when going about the segulah that may make us more zoche to whatever it is we are hoping.
Whoever is modding this thread -you mentioned that there is a Torah basis to segulos. Where is it from?
You understand what “sheba’al peh” means, right?
It is mentioned, though, in the Seforim HaKedoshim.