Homeopathy (was Re: Re: Purines & High Carb diets- help!)

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--- In , Lynn Siprelle <lynn@s...>

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> I've gotten specific relief many times from homeopathy

> (and none if it was the wrong homeopathic), so I say bring

> on the sugar pills. I don't care if it's placebo as long

> as it works, and in my family homeopathy works. It's not

> the only tool in our first aid kit, but it's one of them.

Certainly, there's nothing wrong with placebos, and it's

my understanding that doctors made much wider use of them

in " the old days " . There's also no telling how many things

in our daily lives that work for us, actually do so only as

placebos. Remember Dumbo's feather? What is wrong though,

is representing placebos as more than such to anybody but

the patient by her doctor, and charging outrageous prices

for water or lactose. There's nothing wrong with you using

placebos, and there's nothing wrong with me saying that they

_are_ placebos, if the best scientific data available to date

proves that they are.

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> What is wrong though,

> is representing placebos as more than such to anybody but

> the patient by her doctor, and charging outrageous prices

> for water or lactose.

Have you bought homeopathics recently? They're as cheap as aspirin.

Cheaper!

Lynn S.

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>Certainly, there's nothing wrong with placebos, and it's

>my understanding that doctors made much wider use of them

>in " the old days " .

And a lot of things they THOUGHT were placebos, turned

out to be real. Humans have traditionally " done medicine "

by trying a lot of strange things and seen what worked.

Usually moms, it seems. They didn't worry about WHY it

worked, they just observed. Almost always, the established

community responds with " placebo effect " or " hysteria " ,

until they can figure out a method why it would work, or

better, can patent it. I've seen this happen over and over

and I'm loathe to say AT ALL that something doesn't work

when a mess of people say it does.

Homeopathy is problematic, because, of course, no drug

company is going to test it seriously. Except the ones

making homeopathic medicine, who are not likely to be

believed. But it seems to work for a lot of people, and

shoot, it is a lot less harmful that Prilosec.

-- Heidi