Tiger Wood's wife reported to use homeopathic medicines

[Dana Ullman, MPH]

Friends...

According to a new report in US MAGAZINE, the wife of Tiger Woods has turned
to homeopathic medicines to help her sleep.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews ... ves-sun-gl
asses-reveals-puffy-eyes-197031
Dana Ullman, MPH
Homeopathic Educational Services
2124 Kittredge St.
Berkeley, CA. 94704
(510)649-0294
(800)359-9051 (orders only in the U.S.)
(510)649-1955 (fax)
dullman@igc.org OR dana@homeopathic.com
http://www.homeopathic.com

[Marco Franzreb]

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From: "Dana Ullman"
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:33:07 -0800
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Cc: 'Sue Young'; ;
Subject: [Minutus] Tiger Wood's wife reported to use homeopathic medicines
Friends...

According to a new report in US MAGAZINE, the wife of Tiger Woods has turned
to homeopathic medicines to help her sleep.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews ... ves-sun-gl
asses-reveals-puffy-eyes-197031

Dana Ullman, MPH
Homeopathic Educational Services
2124 Kittredge St.
Berkeley, CA. 94704
(510)649-0294
(800)359-9051 (orders only in the U.S.)
(510)649-1955 (fax)
dullman@igc.org OR dana@homeopathic.com
http://www.homeopathic.com

[John Harvey]

It doesn't appear to have anything to do with homoeopathy anyway; she's reported to be taking "homoeopathic" sleeping pills.

A note for those unfamiliar with homoeopathy: any pill designed to alleviate sleeplessness, remove warts, dry up diarrhoea, or perform any other specific magic that doesn't depend upon the individual patient's symptoms cannot be homoeopathically matched to the patient's illness -- and is therefore not chosen homoeopathically. Such a pill is more likely than not a mixture anyway of half a dozen substances (potentised before or after mixing) all prominently featuring sleeplessness, or warts, or diarrhoea -- and so cannot be homoeopathic even accidentally.

This note will of course trigger the allopaths on this list into defending mixtures as good things and perfectly homoeopathic. But any thinkers here need only think about what homoeopathy actually means: prescription on the basis of the greater similarity of the medicine's symptoms than any other medicine's symptoms to the entire illness of the patient. Such prescribing cannot be done with mixtures (of crude substances or of potentised ones), which do not have and cannot have any reliable provings.

Cheers --

John
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