Re: Immunology And Homeopathy. 4. Clinical Studies?Part 2

On Jun 15, 12:00 pm, "D. C. Sessions" <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Furthermore, modern medicine is primarily focused on root
cause analysis rather than simple remediation of symptoms.
Palliation is, alas, sometimes the best solution available.
For instance, although research proceeds on limb regeneration
in the meantime prosthetics are necessary and *improving*
them is also the subject of much work.

As for "suppression of symptoms," you seem to have matters
reversed since that is the stated objective of homeopathy,
which (according to Hahnemann) holds suppression of symptoms
as its *sole* objective. As he taught, once the symptoms
are suppressed the disease is gone.

Excuse me but you description of Hahnemann's position
appears to be 100% wrong. The statement that he holds suppression of
symptoms as its "sole" objective is false
and is in fact exactly how he described what allopathy
was doing. You are, perhaps, having a little joke here, no?


eradication by chemical poisonings,
radiations, or outright surgical removal.

Which, for all their liabilities are still quite effective.
You at least admit the "liabilities" which include death.

As you must already know,
Homeopathy does not regard these "curative" (sic) methods
as successful in treating the root disease.

Homeopathy denies the *existence* of "root disease." Of
course it does not regard measures to address root causes
"successful." Hahnemann had nothing but contempt, eloquently
and frequently expressed, for even so much as *investigating*
the causes of disease.

Homeopathy is not without prophylaxis.


All these
things do is treat the manifestations of the disease.

But that's all that homeopathy does -- and, please note,
modern medicine does it better. Next time you have a severe
burn, broken limb, etc. *you* can take a homeopathic remedy
for skin inflammation and some homeopathic dilutions of stuff
that causes great pain. I'll have morphine, thank you (a
lovely herbal extract, that, despite Hahnemann's objections
to its use.)

Excuse me but you are either joking or else
have a seriously mistaken view of what Homeopathy
is all about. It is no wonder you don't agree with it,
you don't seem to even know what it is.

Homeopathy seeks a single remedy which addresss
a "out of tune" or "disturbed" being of the patient,
a flaw in what Hahnemann called the "life force" - the
total sum of the person, spiritual, mental, psychological
as well as physical. He states that it is on this plane
that a disease occurs and the symptomology, which can
transform, and migrate over time if only suppressed
by standard medicine, is permanently stopped and
eliminated only when the vital force out of balance
is treated.

Standard medicine has some vague agreements
on this when they talk vaguely about "stress"
as causative factors in disease but of course
they don't dare go any farther than that.

Thanks to modern medicine these techniques can and do save lives but
almost inevitably, the cancer or its root cause goes deeper, remains
hidden only to re-emerge months or years later.

Which, even when it does, beats death right away.
That you at least admit that it does re-emerge is good.


Take childhood Asthma. It is often preceeded by a skin problem, rash
or eczema. Then comes the Asthma. Standard medicine treats these as
two separate things. Homeopathy treats them as two manifestations of
the SAME thing.

Nope. No skin problems, no rashes, no eczema. Just the asthma,
which is the result of multiple sources of respiratory irritation
including air pollution, viral infection, allergens, cold,
exertion, dry air, and stress (to name a few.)

Look in any standard medicine pediatrics textbook.
Under the section about certain types of skin problems,
you will see something to the effect "often accompanied
or followed by asthma" NO OTHER correlation or deduction
is made, only the observation that it often happens so.

Homeopathy DOES make a deduction that the two symptoms are
different manifestations of something deeper.


You go ahead and give the patient some dilute oil of vitriol.
I'll take warm, moist air (yes, that's "allpathic") and if
it's available albuterol sulphate inhaled.

Interesting view is it not?

Not to a parent of asthmatic kids or an emergency medic who's
Indeed so, and NOT to the parent of the asthmatic kids
when the standard medicine FAILS TO WORK.

Hahnemann spent DECADES proving those Homeopathic remedies, nearly
poisoning himself several times as he and the other provers
laboriously and scientifically documented, analyzed and proved
the remedies effects and symptom complexes. It's all in any standard
Homeopathic Repertory, get one and look it up. I promise you its an
education in itself just to read them.

Meantime, hate Homeopathy all you like -> why hell,
they even closed the schools here in the states
and it is STILL going strong here. Can't stop
a thing that works and the thing is, people
find out... they find out!

You never did explain to us how several millions
of people in India are not dying from their Homeopathy
treatments and that there is no mass outcry that it does not
work -> instead they have Homeopathic hospitals and colleges
and are merrily curing people faster than you can say
"like cures like".

I like it.

Citizen Jimserac
.

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