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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: How far should Homeopathic medicine be followed?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.181546.21281@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <TERRYK.92Dec23231607@toady.encore.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:15:46 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <TERRYK.92Dec23231607@toady.encore.com> terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher) writes:
- >
- >I ask the question in the subject line to those who are believers in
- >homeopathic medicine. I'm not against it, but I have reservations.
- >
- >A couple I know seem to be carrying it too far. They see only a
- >chiropractor for all medical problems. He does not prescribe any
- >non-natural medicines. They have 2 children, one 2 years and the
- >other 4, who have never seen an MD, and have never been given vacines
- >or innoculations.
- >
- >I don't think they ever visit an MD. The women commented to me that
- >she had a sinus infection for close to 2 months, and the treatments
- >had not yet helped. He had just given her another natural extract to
- >try.
- >
- >Are they going too far? I find it hard to believe that there are many
- >followers of homeopathic medicine at this extreme.
- >
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- >
- > +----------------+
- >Terence Kelleher +--+-------------+ |
- >Encore Computer Corp. | | E N C O R E | |
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-
- There is a train of thought among some hoemopaths that virtually all
- allopathic medicine is problematic. That even when it clearly cures a
- disease, that it causes deaper seated problems by pushing the weaknesses
- of the healing ability to other areas. I do not think that this is common.
- In any case, even the most harcore alternative practitioners understand
- that allopathic care can save lives for people when no other system will.
- Alternatives usually work more slowly so someone near death will be
- better served by whatever keeps him alive, side effects or not. The
- alternatives can then be used to achieve a lost balance caused by these
- strong drugs. That your friends treatment is going slow is not
- _necessarily_ a problem since a cure that uses a less strong drug
- would be expected to be slower. It is a problem if the condition
- threatens complications and a good practitioner of any type would know
- to recommend a different course of action in that case. A second
- opinion, whether from an alternative practitioner or not, is always a
- good idea and no decent practitioner should object. The fact is that a
- bad doctor of any type is a threat.
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