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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Use of term allopath
- Message-ID: <15934@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 17:18:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.235859.7935@island.COM> <1992Jul28.192038.5433@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Jul30.190339.6160@island.COM>
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- In article <1992Jul30.190339.6160@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >
- >What? Untested you say? Chinese and auyervedic medicine have both been
- >extensively tested and refined for several thousand years. How much
- >more testing do you need? Please don't use the excuse that they were
- >not using double-blind experiments. There is enough empirical evidence
- >compiled with tens of thousands of observations, that this medicine
- >absolutely works, and not on account of the placebo effect.
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- I agree that it should be investigated, and in India, it is.
- I know several Indian doctors who tell me that they do investigate
- the traditional herbs there. One I talked to recently
- feels that most of them don't do what they are claimed to, but
- he says that in some fields, such as dermatology, they are quite
- good. These are mostly applied to the skin, and not taken internally,
- however. Without systematic investigation, we won't know which
- ones work and for what. Of course, you can always have faith
- and assume that the tradition is always correct. I just can't
- do that, I'm afraid.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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