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- From: bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon)
- Subject: Re: homeopathy
- In-Reply-To: sdb@ssr.com's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02: 13:33 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:59:05 GMT
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- If you look at the studies which have failed to find a statistically
- significant result from using homeopathic medicine, you will find that
- they test a single homeopathic medicine against a disease category.
- This ignores the homeopathic principle of the individuation of the
- medicine to the patient. Any fair test of homeopathy requires that the
- homeopathic physician be allowed to prescribe the medicine he or she
- feels will best match the disease sysmptoms. Although sometimes a
- single medcine is usually indicated against a disease category and
- will show a significant result in treatment, you cannot count on this
- in general. As for the Shipley study, not only was a single medicine
- tested against osteoarthritis, it was Rhus Tox., a medicine usually
- used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and not osteoarthritis.
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- Bernie Simon (bsimon@stsci.edu) ad astra per aspera
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