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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I don't honestly know enough about it to be able to say. If my ND says it works for her patients, I trust her judgement. Why?
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Kitsune Member (Idle past 4329 days) Posts: 788 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
Do you understand that a homeopathic "medication" is nothing but water? Do I understand that it is likely that a homeopathic preparation does not contain a single molecule of anything but water? Yes. Is it "nothing but water"? A scientist would say so. The original idea was that the "memory" of the substance is retained in the water. Like I said, I haven't looked into it and I don't know enough to be able to comment knowledgeably. However, as you are well aware, I believe that there are potentially many aspects about the world we live in that are waiting to be discovered. We don't know it all. Maybe we don't even know it all about water. If it works, it works. What's the deal?
Are you going to continue with this "But they believe it too!" nonsense? You mean the majority of people, even doctors, aren't always right? Are you sure that's what you want to be saying to me?
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Kitsune Member (Idle past 4329 days) Posts: 788 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
Why?
Because she has helped me and many others. My mainstream doctors were the ones responsible for the particular help I needed from my ND, because of the drugs they gave me. I go with what works.
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molbiogirl Member (Idle past 2671 days) Posts: 1909 From: MO Joined: |
Lindalou's ND is an online "doctor"!
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molbiogirl Member (Idle past 2671 days) Posts: 1909 From: MO Joined: |
The original idea was that the "memory" of the substance is retained in the water. Like I said, I haven't looked into it and I don't know enough to be able to comment knowledgeably. However, as you are well aware, I believe that there are potentially many aspects about the world we live in that are waiting to be discovered. We don't know it all. Maybe we don't even know it all about water. Finally! So. Is it fair to say that, even tho there is no evidence whatsoever that water has a memory (and mind you ... physicists have explored the subatomic structure of matter extensively), you're going to go with "Well. We don't know what we're going to find out tomorrow?". I suppose it's useless to point out this is a logical fallacy.
wiki writes:
The fallacy of appealing to lack of proof of the negative is a logical fallacy of the following form: "X is true because there is no proof that X is false." It is asserted that a proposition is true, only because it has not been proven false. The negative proof fallacy often occurs in the debate of the existence of supernatural phenomena, in the following form: * "A supernatural force must exist, because there is no proof that it does not exist".
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
Please don't tar all British Doctors with that brush:
Doctors renew drive to ban NHS homeopathy
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Damouse Member (Idle past 4934 days) Posts: 215 From: Brookfield, Wisconsin Joined: |
The article hints at some intent to step up and out of the Middle Ages, but goodness. Thats where sponsorship money was going?
I had thought that (at least for the most part) medecine had left the realm of superstition and was a certifiable science.... This statement is false. Yeah so i lurk more than i post, thats why my posts are so low for two year's worth of membership. So sue me.
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molbiogirl Member (Idle past 2671 days) Posts: 1909 From: MO Joined: |
In 1988, a French scientist, Jacques Benveniste, working at that country's prestigious INSERM institute, claimed to have found that high dilutions of substances in water left a "memory". His findings were published in Nature but with a caveat:
bbc writes: The then editor of Nature, Sir John Maddox, agreed to publish Benveniste's paper -- on one condition. Benveniste must open his laboratory to a team of independent referees, who would evaluate his techniques. BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Homeopathy: The Test Davenas, E., et al. 1988. Nature 333: 816. The Benveniste paper. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the research had been inappropriately carried out. The scandal resulted in the suspension of Benveniste.
At the time, Benveniste was research director of the Clamart-based Unit 200 of INSERM, the French biomedical research agency, which studied the immunology of allergy and inflammation. He was suspended after Maddox launched an investigation of his methods. Nature 431, 729 (14 October 2004). There have been others: clusters of water molecules arranged in specific patterns (Anagnostatos 1994); arrangements of isotopes such as deuterium or oxygen-18 (Berezin 1990); or "coherent vibration" of the water molecules (Rubik 1990). Anagnostatos, G. S. 1994. In Ultra High Dilution: Physiology and Physics, edited by J. Schulte and P. C. Endler. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Berezin, A. A. 1990. Medical Hypothesis 31: 43. Rubik, B. 1990. Berlin Journal of Research in Homeopathy 1: 27. Of course, there is no proof whatsoever of any of this nonsense.
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molbiogirl Member (Idle past 2671 days) Posts: 1909 From: MO Joined: |
In 1938, Senator Royal Copeland of New York, a physician trained in homeopathy and a principal author of the FDCA (Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act), included within the law’s definition of “drugs” articles monographed in the HPUS (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States).
Homeopathics were grandfathered in!
FDA regulates homeopathic drugs in several significantly different ways from other drugs. Manufacturers of homeopathic drugs are deferred from submitting new drug applications to FDA. Their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength. Homeopathic drugs in solid oral dosage form must have an imprint that identifies the manufacturer and indicates that the drug is homeopathic. The imprint on conventional products, unless specifically exempt, must identify the active ingredient and dosage strength as well as the manufacturer. Page Not Found | FDA
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: So, does that mean that if I piss into a bottle, and then distill it to take everything out of the water but the H2O, does the resulting purified water have the "memory" of the urine in it? If I take water that has been in a toxic waste dump, and purify it, does that mean the water has the memory of toxins in it? Most of the water on the planet has simply been recycled for millenia. There is almost no "new" water. Shouldn't all water have a "memory" of everywhere it has ever been over the millenia? What you are suggesting, yet again, is that all we know about the physics of matter is completely wrong and that made up, illogical stuff that contradicts all we know is really what's going on.
quote: Remember in the other thread when you agreed with me that those children's cold medicines that were shown to be ineffective should fall out of favor? The scientists studying them determined that the only positive effect was from the placebo effect. Now, you seem to be making a complete reversal when it comes to homeopathy, even though the reason we are objecting to homeopathic remedies is for the exact same reason; the only possible benefit is from the placebo effect, since there is no active ingredient in the product whatsoever. Why is it "no big deal" here but not with the other products? And LindaLou, aren't you a bit worried that you are taking medical advice from somebody on the internet that doesn't even charge for their services? Did I read that right? That sounds, to put it mildly, seriously foolhardy. Edited by nator, : No reason given. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 763 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Homeopathics were grandfathered in! Ugh! That needs to get fixed...... Oh, and Percy's description left out whacking the dilution bottle on a leather pad. Surely that makes all....no, I guarantee it makes no damn difference at all.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Leather, eh? I wonder if the anti-cruelty people who seem to gravitate towards quackerly like this would be pleased to know about the dead cow skin requirement?
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johnfolton  Suspended Member (Idle past 5620 days) Posts: 2024 Joined: |
The human nose is capable of detecting its said 10,000 different smells in parts per trillion. Water separates charges due to its polar covalency suspect it becomes hard to test in parts per trillion but interestingly the body can recognize smells in parts per trillion which is like what your likely talking in respect to a 30 time dilution.
http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/99/Smell.html
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molbiogirl Member (Idle past 2671 days) Posts: 1909 From: MO Joined: |
The human nose is capable of detecting its said 10,000 different smells in parts per trillion. Water separates charges due to its polar covalency suspect it becomes hard to test in parts per trillion but interestingly the body can recognize smells in parts per trillion which is like what your likely talking in respect to a 30 time dilution. Olfactory receptors detect smell using a "lock and key" mechanism. The smell (the key) fits into the receptor (the lock). The key (hah!) difference is this: There's a molecule present that fits into the olfactory nerve receptor. There are no "medicinal molecules" in a homeopathic. It is water. Plain old water. Hence the twisted logic of Anagnostatos, Berezin, et. al.
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