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- From: greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: How far should Homeopathic medicine be f
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 19:19:05 GMT
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- >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.
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- >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.
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- I'm personally on guard to being sucked into a cultural movement into
- alternative medicine, i.e. letting it become an all-encompasing lifestyle
- sort of deal where you *always* do something and *never* do the other.
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- I don't have data, but I'll share some personal reflections;
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- My OMD (TCM Doctor) often makes comments about sending patients out
- to seek conventional treatment specifically in the case of suspected
- infections. He feels that TCM can treat infections, but much slower
- and usually with a level of follow-up care that he can't always provide.
- He sees nothing wrong with using antibiotics when they're really needed
- instead of allowing an infection to linger on.
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- I see a Chiropractor relating to a history of back problems and while
- she occasionally will adjust my back in the hopes of improving my asthma,
- she's never claimed she could cure it. While I understand some of the
- reasoning behind using chiropractic for a total health care system,
- it still seems like wishful thinking to me. If your friend hasn't
- kicked her sinus infection by now, I think she's really being unrealistic.
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- I guess if you're so stubborn about using alternatives that you'd allow
- yourself to be sick so long, you deserve what you get. I know that in TCM
- they talk about chi (vital life force) and in homeopathy as well, and if
- your chi just isn't strong enough I suppose it's realistic to understand
- why alternative medicine would have a hard time doing the job.
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- I personally feel that there needs to be a balance to everything in life,
- and it sounds to me that your friends may be lacking in it.
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- Greg
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