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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
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- Subject: Re: homeopaty... NBC's dateline
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 20:41:31 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.172102.6968@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <Bz2MyD.Fqq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec14.165647.1043@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1992Dec15.053457.14466@udel.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.053457.14466@udel.edu>, mccoy@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Don McCoy) writes:
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- |> Now, with regard to remedies that are on the order of a few percent
- |> strength, there *may* be an effect such as you are describing. If you
- |> want to call this homeopathic, that's fine, but you'll have to distin-
- |> guish between the ~8% concentration remedies and the 0% ones in order
- |> to have any argument at all.
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- Though in the particular case of Arnica as a pain reliever, I seriously doubt it.
- Given the nature of the symptoms it treats, I suspect a natural analgesic, or
- perhaps a natural anesthetic.
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