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Author Topic:   Holistic Doctors, and medicine
Minnemooseus
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Message 32 of 304 (416492)
08-16-2007 12:22 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
08-13-2007 6:07 PM


Homeopathy and other alternative medicine
you can make your own Homeopathy remedies - it's easy.
1) Take a series of bottles - label them with the thing you want to cure.
2) fill with tap water.
you have now created some remedies with the same active properties as any expensive Homeopathy remedy you'd buy from an "expert".
The pure definition of homeopathic medicines seems to be that the alleged active ingredient is diluted to the extreme that there is no active ingredient left. I have no doubt such have equal value to your tap water.
That said, there seems to also be alleged medicines that are not such as that "pure" definition. I guess they would be solutions (as in chemistry term) of some ingredient(s) in low but still very real concentrations. Despite not falling within the "pure" definition, these products still get filed under homeopathy.
I have a friend who has a PhD in some variety of fish biology - A genuinely smart and intelligent guy. As I understand it, he acquired a so called homeopathic allergy remedy for his dog, and as I understand it, thought it was a useful product.
Bottom line: I think that there are unconventional alternative medicines that are filed under homeopathy, that might have valid use.
I have another (Minnesota) friend who has had long term health problems, including serious digestive problems and also general lack of energy and accompanying depression. He has consulted with a number of local doctors many times over quite a few years. None did much if anything for him.
Then, though family connections, he hooked up with a rather unconventional doctor (real M.D.) in California that had some alternative ideas. There, tests were interpreted that my friend had human growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies. He got treatment with both, and a few days later he felt wonderful, for about two days. Since then, maintenance HGH and testosterone injections have had much less clear benefit. The local doctors came around to support the HGH treatment, but not the testosterone treatment.
While much is to be said for conventional medicine, if it just doesn't work maybe you need to try something else.
Moose

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Minnemooseus
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Message 146 of 304 (418176)
08-26-2007 8:02 PM
Reply to: Message 145 by molbiogirl
08-26-2007 6:23 PM


Chiropractics
Chiro is bunk.
Chiropractic - Wikipedia
While some chiropractics does extend into dubious to highly dubious territory (In skimming the above cite, much more than I realized), I do think that, at the minimum, there are some basic chiropractic procedures that do genuine good for the patient.
Personally, I know that many years ago (in my teens) I "got a kink" in my lower back. I could hardly stand up, and that was quite painful. A little chiropractic manipulation fixed the problem, at least the worst of it. I still do sometimes have some problems in that area, although never as severe as that first time.
I also have several friend who benefit from an occasional "bone cracking".
I think calling chiropractics "total bunk" is plain wrong.
Moose

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