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- From: mrl@nerus.pfc.mit.edu
- Subject: RE: How far should Homeopathic medicine be followed?
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:32:45 GMT
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- In a previous article, terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher) wrote:
- >
- >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.
-
- People like this are lost and unlikely to be swayed by logically reasoning, so
- try illogical reasoning, i.e. Has this chiropractor been to homeopathy school?
- If not, then he is not adequately trained to prescribe homeopathic medicine.
- If you have ever been to a homeopathic doctor, you will find that he usually
- will have many more remedies and different dilution quantities than what is
- usually found in a health food. He will also probably use herbs for more
- serious problems. (P.s. herbs have been used for centuries, if not millenium,
- and are thus much more natural than homeopathy!)
-
- Or how about this reasoning? Many of the illnesses that we get are not
- natural, but are the result of modern living, and natural remedies are not
- capable of dealing with them. Nartural remedies are only effective if we were
- living in a truely natural environment, which I'm sure that couple is not.
- Children these days are exposed to many more illnesses than they naturally
- would be exposed to.
-
- Good luck (you will need it!)
-
- Mark London
- MRL@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU
-