Re: Thank Heavens.....!!!!!!

[Guest guest]

And thank you for your comment. We intend to post the best scientific

and medical information available on this new type of flu as the

information becomes available. Indeed, I am pleased to note that our

moderator is a retired RN nurse with years of experience (and thank

heavens for ).

Pop medicine and conspiracy theories are worthless, although we will

not try to stop these from being posted: someone has got to try to

correct these misinformed individuals, although I strongly suspect that

such people cannot benefit from medical information until they have

sought the help of a PhD clinical psychologist to deal with the

confused thinking that has led them to pop medicine. The same is of

course true of those politicians who now run our nation (especially a

certain so-called reformed drunk) and who deny evolution: as Laurie

Garrett said, you cannot understand the evolution of a flu virus if you

deny evolution, yet this is exactly what many of the Republicans do.

[Guest guest]

While I agree with you that conventional medicine can and has taken

useful information from things such as tribal medicine (do you not

remember the docs interviewing the tribal medicine men when the Henta

virus was discovered?), other perspectives are too dangerous for non-

experts. can dabble safely in such things if he wishes because

he has enough knowledge to do so.

For those lacking in formal medical training, the rule is caveat

emptor. Snake oil salesmen and frauds abound in these fields and those

who lack formal training in medicine would do well to stick with FDA

tested medicines, etc. Hence, for those lacking in formal medical

training, other approaches are not only useless, they are dangerous. I

have mentioned before the poor woman that I met on these boards who

blamed the death of her child on pop medicine. That is but one

example.

Guaranteed that if any herbs are useful, they will eventually be

adopted by conventional medicine. Those who look to such herbs now are

either fools, or they cannot be cured by conventional medicine and they

are in search of pipe dreams. As such, I do not merely pooh pooh other

approaches, I condemn them. To do otherwise would be to do a great

disservice to the common American.

> However, while 's experience is useful, it's not the only

> perspective. Many holistic approaches are also useful. I would not

> like to see them pooh-poohed here just because they do not bear the

> imprimatur of conventional medicine. When the dust has settled, there

> will be many survivors who owe their survival to medicinal herbs and

> other healing compounds that conventional medicine doesn't endorse.

[Guest guest]

Anyone who wishes to go through the years of schooling needed to

acquire medical and pharmaceutical knowledge is welcome to do so.

Others must beware. You would do well to study the history of medicine

which led to the founding of the US FDA. There were and are too many

frauds in this field for the common American to take chances. If you

would trust pop medicine--as you are ready to do--you will be very

disappointed someday.

[Guest guest]

Something had to be done to protect the American people from all of the

quacks and charlatins. Neither of us is happy with the power that has

been centralized in the American Medical Association (a core

constitutency of the accursed GOP), but the common American must

remember that he dabbles on his own in this field at his peril.

" You would do well to study the history of medicine which

led to the founding of the US FDA. "

>

> I HAVE studied the power-grab that occurred at the time the American

> Medical Association and the Food and Drug Administration were set up.

[Guest guest]

You are welcome to your opinion. I am satisfied that one man's quack

is not another man's savior.

Clearly, you have been very badly hurt in some fashion and blame the

medical establishment for this. I am very sorry that you have been

hurt.

Something had to be done to protect the American people

from

> all of the

> quacks and charlatins.

>

> One man's quack is another man's savior. In my opinion, the AMA is a

> collective quack of the highest order, foisting useless chemotherapy

on the most vulnerable of patients. Ka-ching!

[Guest guest]

Dismantled and replaced with what?

> Where did you get that idea? I'm in perfect health. But I can read,

> and what I read tells me that the American medical establishment needs

> to be dismantled from the ground up. I could drown this board with

> credible links that illustrates this FACT.

>

[Guest guest]

I am not going to pursue this discussion further, . By all

means, continue to represent your pov here. I want all pov of view

here, but I certainly want this site to represent modern medicine.

Indeed, in the face of a new pandemic, people will try all sorts of

things anyway. Nothing stopped the 1918 pandemic other than the old

public health laws, and we may well find that only those laws will save

our society this time. As much as you condemn modern medicine, I am

sure that you will condemn those laws more: the old public health laws

seek neither to treat nor to heal: they seek to isolate the disease

carriers so that some people can remain healthy to survive to another

day.

Dismantled and replaced with what?

> With something that really heals people instead of " treating " them.

[Guest guest]

Agreed

>

> The most important thing for those who want to use the homeopathic

approach is that they do it from an educated point of view. Medicinals

and various treatments need to be researched as to their true

efficacy. Homeopathic medicinals are widely used throughout Europe as

an adjunct to conventional medicinals and there are many professional

journal articles about these helpful preparations. It'd be silly to

take something just because someone told you how wonderful it might

be. We need to do our own homework.

[Guest guest]

Two questions:

1. Are homeopathic medicinals approved by the FDA?

2. I understand that the reason that homeopathic medicinals are not

tested by the FDA is that they contain inert ingredients of no value,

right?

> Question: Is there a difference between treating with

pharmaceuticals and treating with homeopathic medicinals? Is one

better than the other?