you know its interesting how the phsycology of healing works on the one hand you have natural healing plants etc. which for the most part , while healing , gives what the body needs in the first place while on the other hand you have the pharmas , which NEVER give what what the body needs and have destructive side affects I'll go natural
Well, hell. People can rattle homeopathy all they want, but me... I am horribly allergic to poision ivy. I don't even have to touch the stuff. And god forbid someone burns some along with the weeds in their yards. The rash could close my eyes, freeze my hands, even make it hard for me to go the bathroom. Pain, low fever, agony. Western med - prednisone. IOW a steroid. IOW something even the doctors with their minimal conserns about long term challenges to the immune system disliked giving to me, especially as a kid. Then someone said try Rhus tox. homeopathic. I had never even heard of homeopathy for such a thing. Bang, the rash goes away way before I even get to the worst oozing sore nightmare stage. Never had a problem since. Now why the placebo effect worked with this better than the placebo effect + plus action worked with the prednison, I don't know. But the stuff does not damage my immune system and it works faster than the steroids ever did. Knock on wood I just don't need meds much of any kind, but unless we are talking things like bullet holes, there is a good chance I will give homeopathy first dibs on my next ailment.
it's potentisation not dilution Potentisation is a pharmaceutical process of preparing a homeopathy medicine. It involves preparation of a liquid base substance (called Mother Tincture) from adding the original drug substance in a hydro-alcoholic (double distilled water-95% pure medicinal ethanol mixed in a particular ratio) solution or sugar of milk (lactose) if it is insoluble, successive serial dilution (makes drug chemically non-toxic) and succussion/trituration of the mixture after each dilution.
Nope. "Potentisation" is a piece of specious double-talk in the hopes that people will believe there's some sort of science involved. As opposed to the reality: no science whatsoever.
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Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://xkcd.com/765/ (mouse-over text from image) Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it's spelled "echinacea", and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham.
Oh, it’s easy to do that. Quite a number of scientific meta-analyses of homeopathic treatments have been performed and published in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals now. I could quote from any of them (they all conclude the same thing), but one of the most recent concludes....
What a priceless sketch! Brilliant. Just remember that drugs such as Asprin, Digitalis and a whole host of cancer fighting compounds (Yew) are in daily use, saving lives everywhere in the world. About 70% of our medicine is derived from plants incl Valerian (plant), Ergot (fungus), Penecillin (fungus) Erethromyocin (fungus) Metronidazole (fungus), St Johns' Wort (plant), Morphine (plant) and too many others to mention. If you were to omit remedies found in nature, you would deny yourself some serious life-giving drugs. Edit* Coke, heroin, weed tobacco and alcohol all come from plants/fungus. Wanna tell me they don't work?
Because if you took them at natural strength (esp digitalis and ergot) you WOULD die. Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) contains atropine. If you were in cardiac failiure you would need this, but only in tiny quantities.
True but how is that relivent? If you drank water in the volume its avilable in nature you would drown, everything has a correct dosage, that has nothing to do with homopathy
Because homeopathy is supposed to utilise the undisputed healing drugs found in plants. Who cares if it's diluted a million to one - If a lethal dose is ten million to one, it's still too strong. Case in point, 10ug of ricin will kill you in 48 hours. 1ug of ricin and you can develop inti-ricin, allowing you to survive higher doses. (figs approx).
That's not what homeopathy is. Read further for more nonsense. The belief that disease is a disturbance in the "vital force" is enough to consign the lot of it to the trash bin.
Ok, fair enough. But I was brought up using plants such as fewerfew (for migraines), Fennel for upset stomach, etc etc. We called this homeothapy. Used properly, the plants and fungi I mentioned are vital weapons in our arsenal. If people are going to use natural drugs, maybe they ought to educate themselves a bit first?
