Homeopathy And My Doctor
I discovered something horrifying in my doctor's office a few days ago. It's a pamphlet made by, in fact, from what I can tell, my doctor, called What About Homeopathy? A Complementary/Alternative Approach To Health Care. Right about now, I wish I could switch doctors, but apparently my mother believes in homeopathy.
So, what stupid crap is in this? Let's see it.
All typos intact.Homeopathy (pronounced "home-ee-ah'-pathy") is the use of very dilute but "potentized" remedies (usually in pill, pellet, or liquid form) to treat a wide range of physical as well as mental-emotional complaints.
What, exactly, is the difference between pill and pellet? Also, when did homeopaths start treating mental complaints? I actually haven't heard them claim to be able to before, and how would you cure them with the Law of Similars? You'll see more random underlinings later.This means the chemical part of the remedy is dilute, but the vibration or resonance is stronger.
Yes, the vibrations that probably don't exist. They're stronger. Yeaaaaaah.Most homeopathic remedies are made from natural sources, such as herbs, minerals, and animal materials, as well as other sources in some cases. These specially prepared remdies do not clear the problem themselves, but stimulate your body to move toward health. For this reason they are generally healthier for you.
So vaccines must work after you get sick, since they help your body produce antibodies that help your body fight off infection, right? And the natural sources are far, far superior to those evil, evil artificial things, like the things my doctor prescribes when he's not being a damn homeopath.The principal of Homeopathy goes back centuries, but it was not formalized as a science until Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Germany did so in the eighteenth century.
LIAR! Homeopathy was made up by Hahnemann, there was no diluted remedy crap before him..At one time there were over 20 Homeopathic medical schools in the U.S., but Homeopathy fell into decreased use when antibiotics were developed.
Probably because, uhh, antibiotics are actually useful?Homeopathic remedies are the safest of all medications (even safer than herbs).
Well, homeopathic remedies don't have an active ingredient, so we're not surprised. How safe are herbs anyway?They can be used along with herbs and most regular medications, and often enable one to reduce or eliminate other medications.
Well of course, you can drink water with medications. When you try to eliminate things, though, they get sick again.Homeopathy is not herbal medicine nor supplements nor chelation nor kinesiology. It is its own unique modality.
It's not just any woo, it's a super special awesome woo!
Not gonna list everything from the other sections, just choice bits.We use vibrations in medicine to help us diagnose ailments - for example, ultrasound tests for gallstones or heart problems. And we use vibration to treat some illnesses - for example, "lithotripsy" to break up a kidney stone. We can likewise use "potentized" or strengthened vibration to help redirect the body toward healing. Homepathic remedies work by delivering a "vibrational message" to the body."
But you can't use vibration to kill bacteria very well, can you? Didn't think so. What's up with that last quotation mark?Regular medicines work because of their chemical content: antibiotics "fight" the germs, aspirin "combats" the fever or pain; cancer drugs "destroy" the cancer cells, for example.
Negative language about normal medicine? Why am I not surprised?Homeopathic remedies do not work because of their chemical content. In fact, most homeopathic remedies that I use are so diluted that they have none of the original "chemical" (plant, mineral, animal) left in them.
Which is part of why they don't fucking do anything!What they do have is a vibration, a "Resonance", similar to the piano and crystal glass. (Idiotic analogy I skipped about playing a piano at a certain frequency and making a glass vibrate) this Resonance is brought about by not merely diluting the preparation, but "succussing" (shaking hard, impacting) the remedy while it is being made; a remedy made by simply diluting the original substance will not work so effectively, for the resonance must be brought out.
So that the homeopaths can charge for it because only they know how to shake it right! Otherwise people could just make it in their home.(MRI's, or Magnetic Resonance Imagings, of plain water and homeopathic remedies that appear chemically to be plain water have been compared, and they can be different.)
Yknow, I think the homeopaths I've seen arguing would have mentioned this great study before. Maybe that's because it probably doesn't exist, if you're going to talk about studies at least cite them so we can be sure they exist!In order for a Homeopathic remedy to work a couple of conditions must be satisfied: First, you must be healthy enough to be able to respond. The remedy does not do the work of getting well for you; it merely delivers a message to your body to redirect it. You do the work yourself (that's one reason the remedies are so healthy for you).
That doesn't sound that much more healthy than normal medicine. After saying that old people and really sick people don't benefit much from homeopathy (handy excuse), it goes on to this:Second, we must strike the "right note": If you take an inappropriate remedy, it's like taking sugar pills. But if you take an appropriate remedy, the results can be delightful!
Actually, an appropriate remedy is also just a sugar pill.
If you don't laugh at this next one, you don't know much about homeopathy or woo in general.A homeopathic remedy is not a placebo.
I don't believe you.
After that, crap about vibes and being able to sense peoples vibes when you walk into the room and fixing negative vibes. Next good one:Homeopathy does not always work. But when it does, it is a wonderful thing to behold!
According to him, only 50% of his patients get a positive response (probably means, "Hey, my stomach pain is a tiny bit better), 25% got a partial response (which probably means, "My stomach pain feels more like an itch and less like a stab wound) and 25% didn't get a response at all (meaning they got worse). So what's so wonderful about working only half the time, far less than regular medicine does in most cases, and probably not working that well when it does?
Bit about what you need to get treated, then:You may get a "homeopathic aggravation" after the dose in which old problems, physical or emotional-mental, flare up; this is actually a good sign that we have struck the "right note," and is usually temporary.
Also probably a lie, homeopathy doesn't do anything.
It also talks about some crap about constitutional stuff, which I have no idea what it means and it doesn't talk about it in the Wikipedia article. But this says that once you've been treated constitutionally, you can treat acute problems with homeopathy, so it probably has something to do with homeopathic miasmas.
I'm going to talk to someone involved about an anecdote my mom keeps pulling up next time I make a homeopathy post, expect it soon.
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