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- From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
- Subject: Re: Use of term allopath
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.235859.7935@island.COM>
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- References: <15657@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul20.201812.7031@island.COM> <15783@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:58:59 GMT
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- In article <15783@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.201812.7031@island.COM= green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
-
- >=Antibiotics are the exception, rather than the rule. Most allopathic
- >=treatments are geared toward maintenance, rather than cure. Examples
- >=of this include diabetes, most forms of heart disease, asthma, arthritis, etc.
- >
- >Hmm. Alternative medicine cures diabetes, corrects valvular heart disease,
- >reverses asthma and makes joints normal? TUBS.
-
- I did not claim alternative medicine did all of those things. I did say
- Chinese medicine can cure asthma. Chinese herbal medicine is effective for
- certain types of heart disease, not valvular heart disease. IT usually
- does not cure diabetes, but it can reduce insulin dependence. It can very
- effectively treat many forms of arthritis. Please provide the quote
- where I said anything about "making joints normal". If you want to continue
- to live in your own narrow world, thinking only so-called scientific medicine
- has any validity and all else is quackery, be my guest. But you do not
- know what you are talking about. Stick to "scientific medicine" where
- you have expertise.
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