Homeopathy

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" Both and Bruce, and others over the many posts, have tried to educate

people into understanding that 'most' so-called illnesses are self limiting. Did

the pain-killer cure the headache or simply dull the body and the symptom faded

away? "

I think that the comment here is telling, that the pain-killer was also placebo

effect. We are supposed to believe that the pain-killer works regardless of

placebo effect, therefore it's effective and homeopathy isn't.

This is why many people (including governments) try to protect the so called

'suggestible' folks from alternative medicine. However, many people who believe

in and use conventional medicine get sicker and sicker. So the double blind

medicine determined to be effective (that kills almost as many people as heart

attacks!) is considered effective and medicine at least partially uses the power

of the imagination and/or other subtle effects is bogus.

Perhaps our testing and evaluation methods are biased and un-sophisticated

because we don't yet know how to use the power of the imagination and mind to

heal and so all we do is to put down methods that at least partially use this

effect as bogus and therefore unworthy of use except by those weak minded enough

to be 'suggestible'.

There is something about current ways of modeling the world that cause this

split into chemical action = effective, hard to determine chemical action =

ineffective. As I understand current research, mental imagery has a measurable

effect on ones body, this was considered impossible and ridiculous not too long

ago.

I have felt skeptical of homeopathy and many other alternative therapies, but

homeopathy seems to work regardless of my skepticism whereas many others don't

hold up as well in my experience.

Karima