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hypno-therapist
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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:37 am Post subject: Homeopathy ineffective, study finds |
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| Quote: | | People who take homeopathic medicines may as well be taking a sugar pill, according to the latest review that finds this form of complementary therapy acts no better than a placebo. |
Thats what this article from ABC News Online says - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1447471.htm
What do others think? I must say that we looked into it once when I was studying - I tried it and had no change. Funny thing is that I flew out to Germany, forgeting that the little white pills where in my pocket - not a great idea going through customs with little unmarked white pills!  |
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Paddy Landau
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I think it depends on the practitioner.
My wife had an "incurable" illness with months left to live. The doctors could offer her only high-risk surgery, which would control the symptoms, prevent her death, and cause life-long painful side-effects.
Instead, she went to see a highly-qualified homoeopath, who was also a medical doctor.
When she returned for her CAT scan, the doctors were convinced they were looking at the wrong scan results, and rescanned her. "Impossible!" they exclaimed, "how can this be?" It went into the ever-growing file of "Unexplained Spontaneous Remissions".
On the other hand, a friend suffered an extraordinary case at the hands of a quack homoeopath, who really should have been sued for the damage she caused.
Did you know that the Royal Family uses a homoeopath (also a qualified doctor)? I guess you have to go by word of mouth for homoeopaths.
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Angie
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Maybe the research was biased as it was only a small number of cases were researched. It also doesn't tell us int the article the length of time the research was conducted.
It is becoming more popular amongst patients to seek help from homepathy so they must be doing something right  |
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Paddy Landau
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| Angie wrote: | | It is becoming more popular amongst patients to seek help from homepathy so they must be doing something right |
Well, the marketing, perhaps!
Popularity is no guide to efficacy. It could be a response to frustration, as modern medicine is still very primitive.
However, there have been some fascinating research studies done on energy healing, with some extraordinary results.
I suspect that homoeopathy (when done well) has some relation to it; although, the good homoeopathy that I've seen used modern medical equipment to aid diagnosis.
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hypno-therapist
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| Paddy Landau wrote: | | It could be a response to frustration, as modern medicine is still very primitive. |
Really?? You should have seen how they patched up my knee after an accident when I was younger! Looked pretty high tech to me! |
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Paddy Landau
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| hypno-therapist wrote: | | Looked pretty high tech to me! |
Well, it would, wouldn't it! You live in primitive times, after all!
Leeches seemed pretty high tech to people living a couple of centuries ago.
When medicine stops causing half of the problems; stops causing major side-effects; no longer needs knives and needles (except for trauma and emergencies); can use a little less guessing and a lot more certainty...
Then, I think, we can consider medicine to be moving away from primitive and towards modern.
But, that's just my opinion.
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hypno-therapist
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| Paddy Landau wrote: | | When medicine stops causing half of the problems |
How do you mean?
From all my times in and out of hospital I haven't experianced medicine giving me half my problems. All my problems where caused by my body - generally thats the way it tends to work  |
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Paddy Landau
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| hypno-therapist wrote: | | Paddy Landau wrote: | | When medicine stops causing half of the problems |
How do you mean? |
According to the statistics that I've read, medicine has so many side-effects that it causes as many problems as it solves.
Consider cancer cures; almost any type of invasive surgery; organ-replacement; a multitude of drugs...
I've read some frightening statistics about how many people have died or had permanent side-effects from their medicines.
In our primitive times, we usually have no choice in the matter. But one day, sometime, doctors will figure out how to cure without those side effects.
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hypno-therapist
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| Paddy Landau wrote: | | In our primitive times, we usually have no choice in the matter. But one day, sometime, doctors will figure out how to cure without those side effects. |
Sure Paddy - lets hope. Your remark about this being 'primitive times' still makes me smile.
OK I'm off to hunt a bear with my flint axe and build a mud hut for my tribe |
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