"Jan" <
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> >Subject: Why alternative medicine "works"...
> >From: "Henry" [email protected]
> >Date: 5/12/2004 6:35 AM Pacific Standard Time
> >Message-id: <[email protected]>
> >
> >The vast majority of human ills and injuries heal spontaneously.
>
> Without medication,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>
> >If a medical problem is "treated" with naturopathy, homeopathy,
> >chiropractic, etc., the practitioners of such frauds take credit when
> >healing occurs, and the result is a growing and glowing list of
> >testimonials.
>
> Same could be said of any kind of conventional medicine.
>
> >Problems that do not heal spontaneously generate few
> >contra-testimonials, usually because of death.
>
> Well, no, the reason people are turning to alternative medicine, is the
many
> unanswered health problems. The little black receipe book is limited to
what is
> endorsed by organized medicine.
>
Jan, your thesis that doctors choose to ignore "real diseases" because they
"have no answers" doesn't hold water. Don't you realize that describing a
here-to-fore unrecognized disease or syndrome is the road to medical
immortality? Do you think that Dr. Parkinson had "the answer" to Parkinson's
disease when he defined it? Or perhaps Dr. Alzhiemer's fame is diminished
because we still don't have the answer to that variety of senile dementia.
Conventional medicine not only does not ignore your "real disease," but
actually has some answers in the form of effective treatment for those
somatization disorder sufferers who are willing to accept it.
> >Alternative medicine "therapies" dissipate two critically important
> >resources of the afflicted: time and money.
>
> Alterantive is growing because conv. has no answers.
>
The answers are there; you just do not want to hear them.
> >Proponents of such therapies are usually just ignorant,
>
> righto, anyone who uses alternative medicine is stupid.
No, some very wily people use alternative medicine to bilk the naive out of
their money.
>
> > but often pursue an
> >agenda of greed - seeking some combination of personal wealth and
> >recognition that would be unachievable when performance is actually
measured
> >by results.
>
> Wrong, wrong and wrong.
>
> RESULTS is WHY people chose alternative.
The lack of results is why alternative must depend on testimonial instead of
reliable research data demonstrating results.
>
> Do tell us WHAT you would do if you had been to many conventional doctors
and
> they had no answers?????
>
> You see, personal experience knows the answer to this, it is clear you
don't.
If you think that your personal experience can predict what I would do in
any given scenario, you are mistaken.
>
> http://www.yourhealthbase.com/alternative_medicine.html
Congratulations, Jan. This URL doesn't have credit card symbols on its home
page. (They're on the second page.)
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/subscriptions.htm
--Rich