Thread: Homeopathy -- fact or trifle?

I kinda have to question any one that says there is 'traditional' western medicine.

i have to question anyone who trusts the FDA. drugs are made to make the drug companies money nowadays. i know this might start a huge arguement but it is what i truly believe. if i am in an accident, i would go to a doctor and except minimal drugs, that is the only situation. other then that there are natural CURES for almost everything. again i know this will start an arguement that don't want to get into, but i have seen the effects first hand.

i will also note that i don't in any way mean to insult doctors as i do have the utmost respect for what they do. i just wish they would encorporate diet and prevention into what they do.

Originally Posted by chee16

i have to question anyone who trusts the FDA. drugs are made to make the drug companies money nowadays. i know this might start a huge arguement but it is what i truly believe. if i am in an accident, i would go to a doctor and except minimal drugs, that is the only situation. other then that there are natural CURES for almost everything. again i know this will start an arguement that don't want to get into, but i have seen the effects first hand.

i will also note that i don't in any way mean to insult doctors as i do have the utmost respect for what they do. i just wish they would encorporate diet and prevention into what they do.

Chee, I agree with most of what you said.. I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about the FDA, but I have an even less fuzzier feeling about going to an herbologist who starts shoving herbs in my face promising everything from a larger appendage to curing cancer. And have you ever read the small print on the herb bottles? It goes something like, this product is not intended to treat or cure any disease... yet the big print just told you it *was* gonna do some miraculous thing.

The perfect set of checks and balances doesn't exist yet, but when I'm getting ready to have surgery, you can bet I'll be hooked up to FDA approved drugs (and not popping herbs) for the general anesthesia, blood pressure control, septic control, and blood sugar control.

Ya gotta play the odds and what you feel safest with. And even though the FDA is not a completely trustworthy agency, I trust them a lot further than the local herbologist and homeopath.

Originally Posted by gregs656

I kinda have to question any one that says there is 'traditional' western medicine.

And "traditional" medicine in this sense is the medicine widely accepted as "the standard of care"; what you would receive at a hospital, for instance. Arguing such minutia...sheesh.

Originally Posted by FloorPizza

And "traditional" medicine in this sense is the medicine widely accepted as "the standard of care"; what you would receive at a hospital, for instance. Arguing such minutia...sheesh.

Ah, so you're allowed to apply meanings to words when you don't quite say what you mean and there are other words that do. That's handy. Western medicine based in science? I thought it was based in nature and takes advantage of science. More minutia? Why not.

Medicine is complex. Most medication is based on something found in nature, there have just been 'advancements' made due to the technology available.

The placebo affect is well know. Homeopathy claims to cure people, and sometimes it works. yay.

Originally Posted by gregs656

Ah, so you're allowed to apply meanings to words when you don't quite say what you mean and there are other words that do. That's handy. Western medicine based in science? I thought it was based in nature and takes advantage of science. More minutia? Why not.

Medicine is complex. Most medication is based on something found in nature, there have just been 'advancements' made due to the technology available.

The placebo affect is well know. Homeopathy claims to cure people, and sometimes it works. yay.

D'oh... gregs656 I apologize... I just assumed (inappropriately) that it was kinda common knowledge what was meant by traditional western medicine. There is a gap here in terminology between countries, and I apologize.

Your post is spot on.