From: "Mark" <[email hidden]>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: Tobyjones looks okay
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Let's get back to discussing alt-med and leave the
bigotry and nonsense behind.Ok.. Is there any alt therapy that you use or have ever
tried and found, at least not tooo bad? Anything you
would ever recommend, as a Doc to a patient?(What kind of Doc are you?)
I'm a pediatrician. I don't personally use that many
interventional therapies at all, alt or conventional. I
meditate a little and I like green tea, but I'll also take
ibuprofen on occasion if I have a headache. I'm open to
the idea of going to a chiro, but so far my back isn't
giving me any problems.
I use aspirin/disprin sometimes, don't need them often;
a sound sleep works well. Some herb teas: lemon,
ginger, ginko.
Quoted message said:I have recommended alfalfa tea to breast-feeding Moms
when their milk supply seems inadequate to meet the
baby's needs. In my experience with this, it seems to
have about a 50% success rate (bearing in mind that in
this series, my n=2)
If I find info on other things for that, I'll post them.
Quoted message said:Contrary to what others might say, I'm not part of Big
Pharma, I don't have a vested interest in maintaining the
status quo, I don't get a big fat check for suppressing
secret miracle cures......I'm interested in what works. If Hulda Clark were to
ever subject her methods to genuine scrutiny, and if
such scrutiny upheld her claims, I'd be the first to
say Hooray.The problem people like me have is that so much of "alt
med" is visciously antagonistic toward anyone who
questions their methods or efficacy. A conversation might
start innocently enough with a query about St John's Wort,
for example, but it can quickly spiral away from SJW and
become a slugfest with religion, ethnicity and all sorts
of other nonsense thrown in. And the antagonism comes from
both sides, too.
Yeah. Pity, that.
Quoted message said:What's your experience with alt med been like?
I had to start thinking about it from when I was a kid, as
my own mother was sick a lot, and none of the conv stuff
worked for her.
So we were all put on strict diets and so on. And were
largely kept off meds, if it could ever be avoided. And she
grew her own veggies, but they weren't pesticide free. In
fact, she used DDT regularly. She read up on the different
alt things that were around way back when, mostly diet-
related. So, I was sort of always thinking about it.
I like the idea of using gentler, subtler, non-harm causing
ways wherever possible, even if others call it all placebo.
I think our entire environment can affect our health, from
the colours, forms and sounds around us to the presence of
others. They can affect our moods, emotions, thoughts, and
other aspects of our health as well.
Is that what you meant?
Doesn't mean I endorse all "alt", - not at all. There are
rogues and crazy people all over..
tj