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How homoeopathy breaks the faith
Dr Thomas Stuttaford
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 52,00.html
IN HAMPSTEAD, Highgate and many other places where alternative cultures,
including those embracing medicine, are more readily accepted, people will
celebrate Homoeopathy Week from June 14 to 21.
The theories underlying homoeopathy were first propounded by Samuel
Hahnemann in 1796. A German, he was convinced that the way to treat a
condition was to find a substance that brought on similar symptoms to those
the disease was causing. He recommended diluting the substance to a very
high degree and then prescribed the resulting dilute solution, or
suspension, as the patient?s medicine.

Homoeopathy is much more alternative than is often supposed and, contrary to
popular belief, is a comparatively new discipline. Its links to Ancient
Greek medicine are tenuous. Nor does it stem from the teachings of the
herbalists such as Culpepper in the 17th century.

Though homoeopathy dates from an age that was becoming increasingly
enlightened and scientific, Dr Hahnemann didn?t even make a nod towards the
scientific principles and techniques already becoming established in the
great medical centres of the world.

Many patients are helped by a visit to a homoeopathic physician. Most other
doctors find it difficult to believe that preparations so dilute that they
are to all intents and purposes only water, or beautifully rolled inert
pills, make any difference.

The standard belief is that a homoeopath has time to listen to the patient?s
account of their emotional and physical symptoms. Nature cures most people
and homoeopaths, like GPs when they had time for long consultations, often
cured by providing a listening ear while the patient?s natural resistance
and resilience triumphed. The truth is that there are fortunate millions who
owe their supremacy over potentially death-dealing diseases to modern drugs.
Unfortunately, they are now having the faith they had placed in their
medication progressively undermined. Over the past few months the
antidepressants that have emptied the mental hospitals, the Cox-2 inhibitors
that have relieved the pain of many arthritic conditions without producing
quite such a risk of gut problems, the statins that have revolutionised the
likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke and the HRT drugs that relieve
crippling menopausal symptoms have all been subject to adverse reports.
However frequently patients are told that every effective drug is likely to
have adverse effects as well as benefits, and that prescribing them should
therefore always be a matter of doctor and patient comparing possible risk
against potential benefit, many find it hard to accept this. Now
pharmaceutical companies are becoming so fearful of being sued that they are
afraid to develop and launch new drugs as quickly as they might do.

Another scare has happened this week. ?Safe? ibuprofen may carry a raised
breast cancer risk. It was estimated that of the 114,000 Californian women
who took part in a trial, in a ?few dozen cases? ibuprofen might have
contributed to the development of breast cancer. The report, the first to
find this, did not mention that it has also been reported that regular uses
of aspirin or other NSAIDs (the group of drugs to which ibuprofen belongs)
may protect against cancer of the oesophagus, stomach, colon and rectum.
Some other environmental factor that interacted in the Californian women may
also have contributed to the risk.

Likewise, ibuprofen could have been a marker for a particular group or
social class. For example, it is known that overweight women are more at
risk of cancer and are more likely because of secondary arthritis to take
pain-relievers. Further research is needed.

NSAIDs, the anti-inflammatory drugs, have a record, especially in the
over-65s, of causing gastrointestinal complications including haemorrhage
and perforation. They may increase blood pressure and hence precipitate
heart failure, and they can cause ocular problems including the one
associated in rare cases with the Viagra-type drugs and, if taken regularly,
they can alter kidney function. But they also make life, including sleep,
possible for millions of people with chronic joint pains.

Benefits and risks have to be weighed and risks minimalised. While the
authorities are considering the future of the Cox-2 inhibitors it would
perhaps be wise to take something for the guts with the NSAIDs. That is why
I preferred to prescribe Arthrotec, which contains misoprostol. It lessens
the risk of the NSAID causing gastrointestinal troubles.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936

Someone care to respond to the Times?

How homoeopathy breaks the faith
Dr Thomas Stuttaford
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 52,00.html
IN HAMPSTEAD, Highgate and many other places where alternative cultures,
including those embracing medicine, are more readily accepted, people will
celebrate Homoeopathy Week from June 14 to 21.
The theories underlying homoeopathy were first propounded by Samuel
Hahnemann in 1796. A German, he was convinced that the way to treat a
condition was to find a substance that brought on similar symptoms to those
the disease was causing. He recommended diluting the substance to a very
high degree and then prescribed the resulting dilute solution, or
suspension, as the patient?s medicine.

Homoeopathy is much more alternative than is often supposed and, contrary to
popular belief, is a comparatively new discipline. Its links to Ancient
Greek medicine are tenuous. Nor does it stem from the teachings of the
herbalists such as Culpepper in the 17th century.

Though homoeopathy dates from an age that was becoming increasingly
enlightened and scientific, Dr Hahnemann didn?t even make a nod towards the
scientific principles and techniques already becoming established in the
great medical centres of the world.

Many patients are helped by a visit to a homoeopathic physician. Most other
doctors find it difficult to believe that preparations so dilute that they
are to all intents and purposes only water, or beautifully rolled inert
pills, make any difference.

The standard belief is that a homoeopath has time to listen to the patient?s
account of their emotional and physical symptoms. Nature cures most people
and homoeopaths, like GPs when they had time for long consultations, often
cured by providing a listening ear while the patient?s natural resistance
and resilience triumphed. The truth is that there are fortunate millions who
owe their supremacy over potentially death-dealing diseases to modern drugs.
Unfortunately, they are now having the faith they had placed in their
medication progressively undermined. Over the past few months the
antidepressants that have emptied the mental hospitals, the Cox-2 inhibitors
that have relieved the pain of many arthritic conditions without producing
quite such a risk of gut problems, the statins that have revolutionised the
likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke and the HRT drugs that relieve
crippling menopausal symptoms have all been subject to adverse reports.
However frequently patients are told that every effective drug is likely to
have adverse effects as well as benefits, and that prescribing them should
therefore always be a matter of doctor and patient comparing possible risk
against potential benefit, many find it hard to accept this. Now
pharmaceutical companies are becoming so fearful of being sued that they are
afraid to develop and launch new drugs as quickly as they might do.

Another scare has happened this week. ?Safe? ibuprofen may carry a raised
breast cancer risk. It was estimated that of the 114,000 Californian women
who took part in a trial, in a ?few dozen cases? ibuprofen might have
contributed to the development of breast cancer. The report, the first to
find this, did not mention that it has also been reported that regular uses
of aspirin or other NSAIDs (the group of drugs to which ibuprofen belongs)
may protect against cancer of the oesophagus, stomach, colon and rectum.
Some other environmental factor that interacted in the Californian women may
also have contributed to the risk.

Likewise, ibuprofen could have been a marker for a particular group or
social class. For example, it is known that overweight women are more at
risk of cancer and are more likely because of secondary arthritis to take
pain-relievers. Further research is needed.

NSAIDs, the anti-inflammatory drugs, have a record, especially in the
over-65s, of causing gastrointestinal complications including haemorrhage
and perforation. They may increase blood pressure and hence precipitate
heart failure, and they can cause ocular problems including the one
associated in rare cases with the Viagra-type drugs and, if taken regularly,
they can alter kidney function. But they also make life, including sleep,
possible for millions of people with chronic joint pains.

Benefits and risks have to be weighed and risks minimalised. While the
authorities are considering the future of the Cox-2 inhibitors it would
perhaps be wise to take something for the guts with the NSAIDs. That is why
I preferred to prescribe Arthrotec, which contains misoprostol. It lessens
the risk of the NSAID causing gastrointestinal troubles.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936

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in universities outside of the U.S. The U.S. is about the only
country that does not use natural healing from plants and etc. If
you go to www.pubmed.gov and type in Mangosteen or Xanthones it will
bring you to a page with information about this amazing fruit. In
Asia, they call it the "The Queen of Fruit". When people drink a
small serving of a juice mixture with mangosteen fruit juice in it,
wonderful things happen with in their body. If you wish more
information e-mail me at scstogdill@yahoo.com. I would be more than
happy to mail you some information about this juice and all the
health benefits it covers. I firmly believe that no one should be
putting into their toxins that will promote illness. I am an x
cancer patient. My doctor wanted me to take tamoxifin for the rest
of my life. After five years when ever I would go for a pap test,
the doctors would call in his whole staff to take a look at the
damage this drug did to me. I am reaping the benefits of poor health
due to all the chemo and drugs the doctors that I trusted suggested I
take to save my life. Do I blame the doctors? No, I absolutely do
not. They went to school, everyone of them, so that they could learn
to make people feel better and some of them maybe they could save
their lives. There hearts were in the right place. They also knew
that their hard work and studies would some day pay off and they
would be able to earn a good living at something that they wanted to
do, make people feel better. There is no way that a doctor can know
everything about every person that walks through their door. They
listen to what a person has to say, and they write out a perscription
on a little slip of paper. I once worked in a hospital and
understand that most doctors are very intellegent but like every one
else, there is one area that they are not too good at and that is
their penmanship and spelling. A perscription call look like a
toddler scribbled something on a piece of paper. Next that person who
has all the faith in the world in the doctor takes that piece of
paper with the scribbles on in to the drug store where they hand it
over to more people they do not know and the person puts all the
trust in the world in this stranger to look at that slip of paper
with the scribbles on it and trust that stranger to take the best
guess they can at just what those scribbles say and they hand you a
bottle of drugs. They may or may not work to cover up the simptoms
of the illness the person has. They end up going back to the doctor
several times and the doctor writes another perscription for another
drug with hopes that durg will work. Mean while, these drugs have
toxic effects on the human body and now more illnesses show up. When
one take a natural product free from chemo. that is known for good
health, there is no side effects and no toxins being put into the
body. Yes doctors are needed. They have a better understanding of
the human body and how it works a lot better than most people do.
Most people are not edicated about health. Most people do not even
care about their health until a doctor gives them the wake up call,
YOU ARE SICK! Then they listen to the doctors advise. The problem is
one need to take charge of their own body and make sure that what
they are putting into their body is something healthy and that it is
not a toxin. It is our responcibility not the doctors to take of our
bodies. People will actually take dangerous drugs all the way up
until their last breath rather than listen to someone that could of
directed them in the right direction to go to give their bodies what
their body needed. Good nurition! This subject can not be ended in
one setting as the human health, toxins from every source keeps
changing year after year, habits are formed by individuals that they
are not willing to correct even if their life depended unon it.
Shari Stogdill