Minutus

Time to rally!
Please share with other complementary health and homeopathy groups.
Everyone worldwide can help Australian Homeopaths by submitting data for consideration before the deadline of May 26, 2014.
This information will be useful to address future attacks on homeopathy beyond Australia.
A successful pro-homeopathy outcome here can be useful elsewhere.
Worldwide effort is required to provide the type of info the Australian gov't National Heath and Medical Research Council NHMRC seeks.
Possibly a true kangaroo court type of situation where they've already decided the outcome but let the public believe they can have a positive influence and change views, but you never know what can happen.
It surely appears the Australian Homeopathic Association is well organized enough to respond credibly as they've amassed and created valuable info on becoming and practicing as a professional homeopath in Australia. In depth working info on how homeopathy has legally become a vital part of a country's healthcare system. Something that shouldn't be taken for granted and must be fought for to protect.
http://www.homeopathyoz.org/whatisPract ... lation.asp
AHA has plenty of research info including a link to the National Center of Homeopathy in the USA.
http://www.homeopathyoz.org/whatisResearch.asp
Currently the AHA provided the news about this but no urgent call to action on their website and how one can help. Time is of the essence and publicizing this is important. In case the NHMRC looks askance at non-Australian submissions, maybe the AHA would want to be sent the same information to submit as a professional organization, a choice given on the NHMRC submission form (see below)
A sense of urgency is required.
http://www.homeopathyoz.org/
Homeopath is an Australian government legally endorsed career which is in jeopardy if the NHMRC perseveres.
http://www.cshisc.com.au/discover/indus ... omeopathy/
The Australian NHMRC is looking to discredit all Complementary Medicines CM starting with homeopathy
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/your-health/com ... -medicines
As the first in a series of investigations into the evidence on CM, NHMRC is reviewing the evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathy. Homeopathy is widely used in Australia and overseas and is one CM where the concept (dilution of an ‘active’ substance to almost zero and a hypothesis that water has a ‘memory') appears scientifically implausible.
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/your-health/com ... thy-review
and looking for public comment ONLY through their website by 5.00 pm (AEST), Monday 26 May 2014.
http://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/publi ... thy_health
You must have an NHMRC online account to submit info, only an email address required. to create. Once created, they do ask for name, address, country for a submission.
http://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/submission-guidelines
They already considered theses studies so additional ones are needed.
http://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/files ... 140407.pdf
They are ONLY looking for comment on Q3, not personal stories, cases, ...
Q3. Is there additional evidence on the effectiveness of homeopathy for the treatment of clinical conditions in humans that needs to be considered? To be considered in public consultation any additional evidence must:

* be a prospectively designed and controlled study (including randomised controlled trials, pseudo-randomised controlled trials, non-randomised controlled trials or prospective cohort studies) OR a systematic review of prospectively designed and controlled studies;
* be publicly available in English;
* include participants with a particular clinical condition;
* evaluate the effectiveness of homeopathy for the treatment of that clinical condition or the treatment of the clinical side effects of another intervention;
* include a comparison group (placebo, no homeopathy or other treatment); and
* report on clinically relevant outcomes.

The following issues are outside the scope of the homeopathy evidence review and comments or evidence on these issues received during public consultation will not be considered:

* the use of homeopathy for preventing health conditions (including homeopathic ‘vaccines’), or whether homeopathy maintains and/or enhances general health.
* the history of homeopathy or its mode of action.
* safety of the ingredients of homeopathic medicines.

Yet, homeopathic vaccination alternatives may be mostly what they want to stop by introducing FUD, fear, uncertainty, doubt and attempting to undermine homeopathy overall.
The Australian Homeopathic Association already has published info on vaccinations which likely is ignored by NHMRC who doesn't want any comment on it now.
http://www.homeopathyoz.org/AboutDiseas ... nation.asp
The UK Guardian article on the Australian Government attempts to discredit homeopathy has more info, especially the attack by Australia NHMRC on homeopathic vaccinations. Unclear if any specific diseases mentioned are formally sanctioned by the Australian Homeopathic Association or if any AROH accredited and licensed as a homeopath in Australia can legally "vaccinate" for any disease according to classical homeopathic principles.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/a ... study-says
Dwyer, who is also a co-founder of the scientific lobby group and watchdog Friends of Science in Medicine, said it was not ethical for people to prescribe a placebo and “fool people”,
and said homeopathic preparations should be “put away” once and for all.
He said the greatest danger in homeopathy was in its use as a vaccination.
“In my point of view as an immunologist, the most serious issue was the spreading of the concept that homeopathic vaccinations were harmless and just as good as orthodox vaccinations. People who believe that are not protecting themselves and their children,” he said.
Homeopathic “vaccinations” are offered for standard diseases, as well as some that there are no medical vaccines for, said Dwyer.
“Homeopathic vaccines were being offered for HIV, TB, Malaria… none of them were effective,” he said.
The Western Australia president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), Richard Choong, agreed and said the AMA has long held there is no evidence to support homeopathy.
“Homeopathy is not a science. It is not based in science,” he told Guardian Australia.
“In a lot of cases it can be considered dangerous and can risk people’s lives, and vaccination is a classic example of this,” said Choong.
“Patients have been led to believe that they’ve been vaccinated in some way, using homeopathy, when there’s no evidence to say they have been immunised against a disease which may cause harm to them if they were to catch it.”
Both Choong and Dwyer called for the legitimisation of homeopathy to end, including the cessation of private medical insurance subsidies and the sale of homeopathic preparations in pharmacies. Both also criticised the teaching of the practise in tertiary education.
The report stated that “not all evidence is of equal value,” dismissing anecdotal support for the effectiveness of homeopathy, and urged health professionals to be aware of the science and inform their patients.
“It is not possible to tell whether a health treatment is effective or not simply by considering individuals’ experiences or healthcare practitioners’ beliefs,” said the report.
Submissions from homeopathy interest groups and the public were among the studies assessed by the NHMRC, but “did not alter the conclusions” of the Council, in some cases due to the poor quality of the studies submitted.
Quackbusters, skeptics and others who attack CM and homeopathy continue to use as call to arms the unsubstantiated Edzard Ernst allegation on the death of Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer, who sought alternative treatments for pancreatic cancer and died from it, blaming time wasted on alternatives, homeopathy, in lieu of immediate allopathic treatment, the cause of his death.
No mention let alone stats that many if not most who die of pancreatic cancer solely used allopathic cancer treatments.
The practice came under fire last year when a leading professor in complimentary medicine argued homeopathy had killed Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Professor Edzard Ernst said Jobs had delayed conventional treatment for his pancreatic cancer in favour of an "unproven treatment".
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/archive/new ... 6299003194
Please read my 2012 posts on this.
There is NO evidence, yet, that Steve Jobs used homeopathy or consulted a classical or non-classical homeopath or took homeopathic remedies to treat pancreatic cancer and the allegation that he did so, thus hastened his death, is an unsubstantiated fallacy to promulgate in order to marginalize and possibly illegalize homeopathy where it has been legally recognized and practiced with over 200 years of documented successful use worldwide.
http://www.otherhealth.com/homeopathy-l ... apple.html
Australian homeopaths should relay this information in a response or in public comments elsewhere.
Hopefully, the Australian NHMRC considers pertinent worldwide public comments, so let's provide info to help them out.
Susan

In a message dated 4/9/2014 3:35:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, healthyinfo6@aol.com writes:
John Benneth, Homoeopath
PG Hom - London (Hons.)
http://johnbenneth.com
SKYPE: John Benneth (Portland, Oregon)
503- 819 - 7777 (USA)

What the fools don't know is that technically, "homeopathy" per se, by its meaning, has already been in use since the beginning of "vaccination" by EDWARD JENNER in 1796, the same year Hahnemann identified it for what it was in Hufeland's Journal . . as HOMOEOPATHY:
The small pox vaccine is HOMOEOPATHIC . . as are other vaccines , inoculations, anti venoms and anti toxins.
The public needs to be made aware of this, that the homoeopathic principle of "like cures like," or medical similitude, is universal, and is not restricted to little sugar pills. Hahnemann's genius was in finding a way to ionize pharmaceuticals, make hard matter soluble and fit for human use without poisoning the patient, and to apply the same curative mechanism that causes immunization in the vaccine, to other illnesses.
There's nothing in the word "homeopathy" or "homoeopathy" that says anything about what the phase of matter has to be in order to create a homoeodynamic effect.
Anyone who is opposed to "hom/o/eopathy" is a pretender, a fraud. someone who, in an attempt to preserve an entitlement or position of authority, is trying to appear to know something, issuing an edict on something they haven't bothered to make any real investigation of before shooting their mouths off about it.
Somebody has finally put it to them (Fran) and they're running scared. We should hold a conference in Tahoe to give Fran Sheffield a Hahnemann Award for what she's done.
They say it's useless because it's useless to THEM in preserving THEIR jobs, which they probably will lose anyway when people find out how stupid and selfish they've been without regard to the public's health and safety.
Fran Sheffield deserves a standing ovation from the homoeopathy community for what's she done in the advancement of real medicine.
In a message dated 4/9/2014 3:35:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, healthyinfo6@aol.com writes:
John Benneth, Homoeopath
PG Hom - London (Hons.)
http://johnbenneth.com
SKYPE: John Benneth (Portland, Oregon)
503- 819 - 7777 (USA)

What you say John is so true. I have often pointed out that the use of similars was taken
by Jenner and the medical industry from homeopathy.
And yes, Fran has stood up to Goliath as a professional with dignity, purpose and truthfulness
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From: jrbenneth@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 6:20 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Australian Homeopathy Under Attack - UNITE TO HELP!

What the fools don't know is that technically, "homeopathy" per se, by its meaning, has already been in use since the beginning of "vaccination" by EDWARD JENNER in 1796, the same year Hahnemann identified it for what it was in Hufeland's Journal . . as HOMOEOPATHY:
The small pox vaccine is HOMOEOPATHIC . . as are other vaccines , inoculations, anti venoms and anti toxins.
The public needs to be made aware of this, that the homoeopathic principle of "like cures like," or medical similitude, is universal, and is not restricted to little sugar pills. Hahnemann's genius was in finding a way to ionize pharmaceuticals, make hard matter soluble and fit for human use without poisoning the patient, and to apply the same curative mechanism that causes immunization in the vaccine, to other illnesses.
There's nothing in the word "homeopathy" or "homoeopathy" that says anything about what the phase of matter has to be in order to create a homoeodynamic effect.
Anyone who is opposed to "hom/o/eopathy" is a pretender, a fraud. someone who, in an attempt to preserve an entitlement or position of authority, is trying to appear to know something, issuing an edict on something they haven't bothered to make any real investigation of before shooting their mouths off about it.
Somebody has finally put it to them (Fran) and they're running scared. We should hold a conference in Tahoe to give Fran Sheffield a Hahnemann Award for what she's done.
They say it's useless because it's useless to THEM in preserving THEIR jobs, which they probably will lose anyway when people find out how stupid and selfish they've been without regard to the public's health and safety.
Fran Sheffield deserves a standing ovation from the homoeopathy community for what's she done in the advancement of real medicine.
In a message dated 4/9/2014 3:35:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, healthyinfo6@aol.com writes:
John Benneth, Homoeopath
PG Hom - London (Hons.)
http://johnbenneth.com
SKYPE: John Benneth (Portland, Oregon)
503- 819 - 7777 (USA)

Goodness! Some people say I am nothing but trouble, and I think a Hahnemann award would be far too heavy for the likes of me to carry - but thank you for the kind words.

I have not yet had time to fully digest or write about the NHMRC draft report but they invite people to respond to them (by mail) with research they have not considered by some date in May.

They have tight criteria regarding the info they will accept, and how they will accept it, and while the final report may be a foregone conclusion, it is still important for us to respond with the evidence we have.

One IMPORTANT thing for us to realise is that they have stated that they will not accept any prophylaxis studies. The reason for this should be obvious - it is our best and easiest way to demonstrate to all and sundry that homeopathy works! If anyone is planning to write about this report, this important point should be discussed to show that they themselves are cherry-picking to exclude the positive evidence.

I should also make it clear that many good people from our homeopathic and complementary therapy associations have spent weeks and weeks putting together submissions for the NHMRC, and will be doing so again - but please don't leave it to them to do all the work. The more submissions that go in before the final report, the better.

Fran, I've written a post to the group about how we might help as well as a personal plea to the people of the group to be informed about the situation in India that would definitely impact homeopathy. May I send it to you BEFORE I send it to the group. If yes, will you provide me with an e-mail addy to send to?

Thanks,
Vicki