Quote Originally Posted by scruffy View Post
After reading about how tinctures are made and diluted I became very sceptical of it. The best explanation that I have is that water has a memory. The tinctures alter the structure of the water molecules which they come in contact with. It is this variation in the structure of the water molecules that promotes the healing.
Although I try to keep an open mind about alternative medicines, I do find this very hard to swallow. Water, H2O, having memory. Active ingredients altering the structure of water... how many ways can two hydrogen atoms bind to a single oxygen atom? I just don't buy it. If water has memory, then every organism it has ever passed through would have left an imprint on it, surely? I can't bear the idea of drinking a glass of water which has the memory of someone's p!ss.

Quote Originally Posted by Pyment View Post
I have yet to meet someone who has seen a chiropractor and been told they are normal and need no treatment. Something (hip, spine, etc) is "out of place".
My wife (a GP) once suggested I visit a chiropracter for a longstanding neck pain which a number of doctors had failed to treat successfully. I went for three sessions. The first two involved that horrific and clichéd twist-the-neck like Jean Claude van Damm does when breaking a terrorist's neck. Did nothing for me. Te third visit he sat me down and decided to take a VERY thorough medical history. We talked for 20 minutes on how I live, exercise, what I do, how my day is structured etc. From this session he found out that I was hitting the books and studying in the evenings after work. And from there the posture I use when bent over my books. So he tells me to go buy myself one of those book stand things so I don't need to bend over a desk anymore to read. And within two weeks the pain went and never returned, after suffering for 3 years!

He didn't do any mumbo jumbo. It was a simple and honest solution. And he was able to suggest it simply by spending the time to find out about me and how I live. It ain't rocket science, but every doctor I had visited in three years had failed to elicit that info from me.

The sad fact is that GPs can only afford to give patients here a 9-minute consultation (on average). Driven by one of the many government targets that doctors have to achieve. That got in the way of them finding out enough about me to discover the cause of my pain.

So consider this: the chircopracter was able to give me the focus and attention our GPs can't (due to time constraints). By referring me to this alternative health professional, the NHS saved money. How? I didn't need to revisit the doctor. All those consultations I received through my local surgery, without a result. And within 3 visits to a chiropracter the problem was resolved permanently. How many consultations would I have continued to require if I hadn't been referred? How much more money would I have cost the NHS?

I may not believe in the science behind chiropractic, but the SERVICE led directly to easing my suffering and reducing the strain on the NHS.

To me, that sums up why this is not a black and white issue -- forget the theory, it's about making people better. That's what's important.