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Homeopathy is bunk!

Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
In my opinion, a holistic approach to treatment is usually healthy and has positive results, while a homeopathic approach is pure drivel and actually dangerous.

Holistic medicine can be combined with medical expertise administered by physicians and medical professionals, with excellent results.

I just wanted to clarify this in case anyone was confusing the two terms.

Nearly all pharmaceuticals are simply poisons in small doses. I usually try to treat whatever ails me first with a more natural approach rather than immediately jumping up and running to the doctor and grabbing a bottle of prescription drugs.

As many of you know, I recently had surgery (which was quite successful - at least so far things are going fantastic) so I'm obviously not anti medical establishment. However, I chose my excellent doctor in part because he's as non intrusive as possible and doesn't simply throw a prescription at every problem.

By the way, my chiropractor diagnosed my problem - AFTER six months of misdiagnosis, and actually harmful treatment, by another doctor. My chiropractor is the one who ordered the MRI based on her observations, which led to my successful surgery.

In my opinion, that's the way holistic and professional medicine should work together. Mission accomplished!
 
Panda

Panda

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Premium Member
Dara O'Briain made a good point about herbals medicine. The fact that we test it and the stuff that works then just becomes medicine. I think a lot of people seem to fail to understand that a lab made version of a chemical is identical to it when it appears in a plant somewhere. Being "natural" doesn't make it any better, or any worse.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
monta said:
So tap water is essentially homeopathic diarrhea medication and fertility treatment or is it contraception how does that work I wonder :confused:
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But here's the thing: because the less you take the more it works, if you don't drink lots and lots of tapwater all the time, you're liable to completely lose the ability to poop or have children.

DallasApple said:
Excuse me !!!!Crushed "oyster" shells or "mixes "flower petals" arent probably helpful..(sorry!)
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Probably not, but I still hold out more hope for them than diluted "light of Venus" or thunderstorms:

The Weird Homeopathy List « The Thought Stash

Kathryn said:
Nearly all pharmaceuticals are simply poisons in small doses.
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... in the same sense that food is, I suppose.

Kathryn said:
By the way, my chiropractor diagnosed my problem - AFTER six months of misdiagnosis, and actually harmful treatment, by another doctor. My chiropractor is the one who ordered the MRI based on her observations, which led to my successful surgery.

In my opinion, that's the way holistic and professional medicine should work together. Mission accomplished!
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I'm personally okay with the idea of chiropractors looking for problems with the skeleto-muscular system. I'm much less okay with them doing things like treating asthma.

Panda said:
Dara O'Briain made a good point about herbals medicine. The fact that we test it and the stuff that works then just becomes medicine. I think a lot of people seem to fail to understand that a lab made version of a chemical is identical to it when it appears in a plant somewhere. Being "natural" doesn't make it any better, or any worse.
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I heard a line a while back:

What do you call an alternative medicine that's very well understood and has had its efficacy demonstrated in numerous rigorous scientific trials? Medicine.
 
monta

monta

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9-10ths_Penguin said:
But here's the thing: because the less you take the more it works, if you don't drink lots and lots of tapwater all the time, you're liable to completely lose the ability to poop or have children.
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I've been thinking on it further and now I realise that the weaker the dilution the more potent the medicine, there is so much poop and female hormone in the water it has rendered the homeopathic power useless. This is also where Randi was going wrong when he ''overdosed'' his failure to understand that the potency of homeopathy is it's weakness, every additional dose he took was negating the previous dose. In fact the way to get the best benefit from homeopathic medicine would be not to take any of it and just ingest the small amounts of substances that are in our air.

My head feels funny.:help:
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
monta said:
I've been thinking on it further and now I realise that the weaker the dilution the more potent the medicine, there is so much poop and female hormone in the water it has rendered the homeopathic power useless. This is also where Randi was going wrong when he ''overdosed'' his failure to understand that the potency of homeopathy is it's weakness, every additional dose he took was negating the previous dose. In fact the way to get the best benefit from homeopathic medicine would be not to take any of it and just ingest the small amounts of substances that are in our air.
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Homeopathy, when combined with phrenological analysis & scolecophidian oil has been shown effective in curing the vapors, atheism, homosexuality, & other human mental disorders.
 
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Autodidact

Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
sthitpradnya said:
i got my sinusitis and kedney stones cured by a homeopath. can't deny the curative value of homeopathy.
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I can't? Watch me. To begin, you don't know whether homeopathy cured anything. all you know is that the cure happened after you took the remedy. Please tell us anything you can about your condition, the product you took to cure it, and what happened. Thank you.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Midnight Pete said:
Should homeopathy be considered interchangeable with professional medicine or just a supplement for it?
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IMO, homeopathy should be considered fraud.

However, for their sake, I hope that people who do use homeopathy consider it a supplement to conventional medicine, because one of the big dangers of homeopathy is delay of proper treatment. Hopefully, if a person continues to see a real doctor, they still have a chance of receiving them proper advice.
 
Midnight Pete

Midnight Pete

Well-Known Member
9-10ths_Penguin said:
IMO, homeopathy should be considered fraud.

However, for their sake, I hope that people who do use homeopathy consider it a supplement to conventional medicine, because one of the big dangers of homeopathy is delay of proper treatment. Hopefully, if a person continues to see a real doctor, they still have a chance of receiving them proper advice.
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Agreed.
 
sandy whitelinger

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
monta said:
I've been thinking on it further and now I realise that the weaker the dilution the more potent the medicine, there is so much poop and female hormone in the water it has rendered the homeopathic power useless. This is also where Randi was going wrong when he ''overdosed'' his failure to understand that the potency of homeopathy is it's weakness, every additional dose he took was negating the previous dose. In fact the way to get the best benefit from homeopathic medicine would be not to take any of it and just ingest the small amounts of substances that are in our air.
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I suppose that if homeopathy worked then getting a water purifier would be useless.
 
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