What the Homeopathy Controversy is Really All About
(NaturalSociety.com) A German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, started homeopathy in the late 1700s to early 1800s. This was a period when mainstream medicine consisted of using bloodsucking leeches, mercury, arsenic, and lead to treat illness. His approach was kinder, gentler, and much more effective.
Homeopathy caught on in other parts of Europe and North America during the mid-19th Century and beyond. John D. Rockefeller reportedly used homeopathy for himself and his family.
But he made sure his fledgling pharmaceutical interests and petroleum monopoly would benefit from the manufacture and prescription of petrochemical based pharmaceuticals along with his merger with IG Farban, the largest international pharmaceutical company of that time.
Rockefeller basically bankrolled medical education and licensing for allopathic practitioners to exclude both homoeopathics and herbalists. By the early 20th Century, The American Medical Association (AMA) became a major influence for deciding what is and isn’t medicine.
Homeopathy was displaced from mainstream consciousness as the Medical Mafia took over.
How Hanemann Developed Homeopathy
Hahnemann conducted trials on volunteers and patients. This was truly evidence based medicine for establishing specific results. But his premises were unusual to the Western world.
Hahnemann believed that a vital energy runs through our bodies. This became known as vitalism. Chinese acupuncture had not arrived to the West yet, so this was a startling position to assume.
First he decided that a substance producing symptoms similar to the symptoms of the ailment being treated could heal the ailment. This became known as the “law of similars.” Since Hahnemann was using some toxic plant derivatives at first, he had to dilute those potions with water.
He soon discovered that increased dilutions proved to be even more potent than stronger solutions. First, a sample is taken from a mother solution, is diluted, then shaken vigorously. It can be diluted again and again and shaken each time. This is known as potentization.
Even though a solution can be diluted to a point of containing only one molecule of the original substance, the potentized solutions offer healing by transferring the electromagnetic properties to the water with each shaking. This is how the vital energy or chi is influenced by homeopathic remedies.
The Medical Mafia’s Real Objections to Homeopathy
This is too subtle for average materialistic practitioners and research scientists. So the AMA mainstream medicos maintain that they’re too weak to work. But that’s the cover story for the real reasons why “orthodox” medicine is against homeopathy, even as more from their ranks slip away and choose to use it.
Big Pharma runs Allopathic medicine from top to bottom. They are in the faces of medical students before they graduate and continue haunting them after they get their licenses. The AMA, FDA, and regional licensing agencies are Big Pharma’s Medical Mafia “enforcers.”
Big Pharma and medical equipment manufacturers would be ruined financially if enough discovered that very inexpensive homeopathic diluted solutions can be used to actually heal without side effects from a homeopathic practitioner who requires practically no expensive medical equipment.
Homeopathy requires dialogue between practitioner and patient. It is patient specific. That takes time and patience, something MDs don’t have time for. Practicing homeopathy is more subtle and demanding than cookie-cutter “here’s your prescription” medical practice.
But this is also the one downside of homeopathy. It’s important to consult a good classical homeopathic practitioner to get optimum results.
But it’s hard to go too wrong with homeopathy because homeopathic solutions are without side effects and are much less expensive than pharmaceuticals. Treating an autistic child often comes to a couple of hundred dollars worth of homeopathic remedies over a year’s treatments.
Meanwhile, orthodox oncologists make up to a half-million or more dollars per year off the chemo drugs they drip into their visiting patients. Yes, they get a cut of the action from those hideously expensive chemo drugs that often kill patients before cancer can.
In summary, allopathic medicine condemns homeopathy because it is more effective but less profitable than the Medical Mafia’s racket. You’ve just been told the real truth. Investigate further starting with the sources below.
Additional Sources:
How PhD computer scientist Amy Lansky became a homeopathy advocate when her son’s autism was cured by it – Mercola
How Modern Medicine displaced homeopathy – Sott
I wonder if homeopathists are even capable of honestly representing the nature of scientific objections to homeopathy? I realise that articles like this are for the faithful, whistling in the dark and all that, but it raises unnecessary hostages to fortune when you pretend that an enmity that was consciously started by Hahnemann himself, and which is maintained today despite the fact that modern medicine bears no relation at all to the “allopathy” of his day, is of others’ making.
There are exactly three reasons that scientists and the medical world reject homeopathy. First, there is no reason to suppose it should work; second, there is no way it can work; third, there is no proof it does work.
Science can (and does) fully account for all observations. The null hypothesis: placebo effects, expectation effects, regression to the mean, natural history of disease, inferential errors – all the things medicine had to learn to exclude in order to drag itself out of the dark ages. And this explanation is both complete, and consistent with other science. The same absolutely cannot be said for the speculative and often ridiculous explanations advanced by homeopaths.
If homeopathy worked, it would be part of medicine. It is not part of medicine because it doesn’t work. It really is that simple! You think it works due to a number of cognitive biases and errors that are well understood, but it doesn’t – and if it did e’d have to completely rewrite the very science that allows this website to exist. The science that contradicts homeopathy is the same science that makes semiconductors and lasers work.
If “natural medicine” would even have the slightest effect, why people did invent the science based medicine? Exactly… because natural medicine never worked well enough.
If herbs and fruits and veggies would heal all our physical hurts, there would not exist even one pharmacy company.
There would not even be some native-medicine-man or what-ever-the-crap-healer.
Bad Pharmacy Companies keeping Homeopathy and “Natural Cancer Treatments” secret for financial reasons?
Well, sounds reasonable… but… How can it be that all this “information” about all those “natural cures against cancer” is available on thuosands of websites for free and still people are dying from cancer every day? Who actually is keeping it secret?
I worked once in a chemistry lab by myself. And I can tell You, dear Homeopats, even inside a professional equipped lab it is impossible to keep liquids, substances and glass instruments 100% clean.
So if You potentiate a serum by multiple factors there is at the end much more “dirt” and “other substances” in the liquid than from the wanted serum.
And No: Water can’t take up information.
And if it could it would store way much more information from the dirt in the glass instuments than from the actual serum. Just because the serum gets thinner and thinner but the amount of dirt remains stable.
Learn to distinguish between believe and knowledge.
Just because somethings sounds nice and just because something sounds reasonable to You it mus not necessarily be the truth.
Rhetorical questions, or flat denial of proven facts does not make a relevant scientific argument.
Maybe you should “learn to distinguish between believe and knowledge.”
And maybe get a clue that the word you’re looking for is ‘belief’…
Don’t wonder, do some research. Professional homeopaths study all research carefully and ponder scientific objections carefully as well but the reality is that the science/medical system is mechanistic and materialistic and limited in its nature. It simply is not able to research something like Homeopathy because of the prejudice inherent in its paradigm. That will change, but until it does, the way science/medicine currently tests runs counter to the philosophy and system on which Homeopathy is founded.
Running conventional ‘double blind’ tests on Homeopathic remedies can only ever be partially successful even when it takes into account the basis on which Homeopathy works – and mostly it doesn’t.
And your ignorance of Hahnemann as well as Homeopathy is revealed with your comments. Hahnemann did not seek to encourage emnity; he was horrified by the barbarism of the medicine of this time and would be horrified by a lot of the barbarism of medicine of this time. He looked for an alternative.
In Hahnemann’s day and for the next hundred years or so, ALL homeopaths were also medically trained doctors. Hardly an argument for your theory that he encouraged emnity. Such a theory runs counter to the facts and logic regarding those facts. But never let facts get in the way of propaganda.
More to the point, all French Homeopaths are also Allopaths; most Indian Homeopaths are also trained as MD’s and many Homeopaths around the world practise both Allopathy and Homeopathy and find that they can do so effectively. Allopathy would be last, not first choice, but no-one denies it is invaluable in two situations – crisis/emergency and mechanistic surgery where repair or reconstruction are required.
As to your reasons why science/medicine rejects it:
a. if rejection were based on supposing something should work most of scientific research would stop tomorrow.
b. categorically saying it cannot work because it does not fit the mechanistic/materialistic paradigm which has trapped science for a few hundred years would have meant that quantum physics would never have developed and neither would the research into cellular biology. Science/medicine managed to get past its prejudice and ignorance in regard to bacteria – after killing a lot of people – so no doubt it will in time get past its prejudice and ignorance in regard to the Homeopathic process.
c. as to there being no proof that it does work your statement is patently ridiculous. There is as much proof that Homeopathy works as there is that gravity works and science does not understand how gravity works or what it is but is happy to accept it on the basis of observation of its effects. Ditto for Homeopathy. Homeopathy works and heals, and demonstrates those facts and so billions of people around the world accept it. The fact that some like yourself and many in science/medicine do not is irrelevant, and, when one takes something like gravity into account, hypocritical and foolish to boot.
Homeopathy does work and it was and is a part of medicine. It is just less a part of medicine because of ignorance, bigotry, the power of the drug companies and the limited paradigm of science/medicine. It really is that simple.
You touch on the real point when you say if it did work then science would need to be rewritten. And yes it would, not all of it, but some of it. There is a place for the mechanistic in science, which is why this website works, but only a fool would think that is all there is to this world. It is patently clear, which is why quantum physics was developed in the first place, that there is far, far, far more to this world than the materialistic and mechanistic.
Fear not, lasers, semi-conductors and this website will continue to work when science has advanced enough to understand how and why Homeopathy works.
I have done an immense amount of research. This shows that (a) there is no reason to suppose homeopathy should work, its doctrines were refuted a century ago; (b) there is no way it can work, and no remotely plausible mechanism has ever been proposed; (c) there is no proof it does work, all observations are fully consistent with the null hypothesis.
Hahnemann hated the medicine of the day; he said that anybody practicing both was committing “treason against divine homoeopathy”. Homeopathists use precisely the same rhetoric today although medicine has changed beyond all recognition.
You can indeed run double blind tests. When you do, you find that all effects are due to the consultation (i.e. are placebo effects): Homeopathy has clinical benefits in rheumatoid arthritis patients that are attributable to the consultation process but not the homeopathic remedy: a randomized controlled clinical trial
I don’t blame you for not understanding, it is part of the narrative of homeopaths to systematically misrepresent the reality-based consensus, because they cannot address the actual facts, only misleading caricatures of them.
But have you done an immense amount of work into Homeopathy? I am sure you have done an immense amount of work into propaganda against Homeopathy but that is quite a different thing.
The simple reality is this, for anyone who has done an immense amount of work into and with Homeopathy your comments indicate your ignorance, not your knowledge and reason which has taken that information to reach a conclusion. Those who know nothing about Homeopathy may not pick it up but your prejudice is pretty clear and I am sure that makes many, think twice and do their own work, at which point of course they realise how much you get wrong.
Your comment about Hahnemann is ludicrous – perhaps you could provide a link to the book and page where it can be found. Most Homeopaths have all the books Hahnemann wrote so it would be easy to find. If he did say as you have quoted then context would be crucial but I doubt very much that he did. But please provide me with the name of the book and the page where you found it.
But here is the simple reality, in Hahnemann’s day all Homeopaths, including himself were qualified MD’s as well and they were for more than another hundred years. People training as Homeopaths without also training as MD’s is historically recent although many Homeopaths are also Allopaths and in France for instance you can’t be a Homeopath without also being an Allopath.
So how do you reconcile that reality with the founder of Homeopathy demanding, as you suggest, that Homeopaths had to choose? Clearly everyone ignored him for more than a hundred years and many ignore him still. You see, things have to make sense and your comment, as with many of your comments, does not make sense. Nor does it fit the historical facts which are available. But never let facts get in the way of propaganda.
Yes, you can run double blind tests. What I said was they can only ever be partially successful for reasons which anyone who understands Homeopathy can know. But yes, some double blind tests have shown the efficacy of Homeopathy, it is just that the system is predicated on the materialistic/mechanistic paradigm which controls and limits science/medicine and therefore limits its ability to understand a medical methodology which is far more advanced.
As to your ridiculous statement that it is all placebo, even The Lancet has published results showing that Homeopathy is effective and it most definitely is not a placebo effect. But, as I said before, never let the facts get in the way of propaganda.
And your last phrase is a wonderful example of prejudice and ignorance. Keep up the good work. It just makes it so much easier to identify your lack of argument.
N.B. It is useful to understand the meaning of Allopathy – from the Greek,’ allos’, meaning other, as opposed to Homeopathy, from the Greek meaning,’ homeos’, the same. Homeopathy uses ‘like treats like’, ergo, the same and Allopathy uses that which is other, or the opposite.
As Steven Goldsmith, MD, points out in his book, The Healing Paradox, while Allopathy has been accepted as a label by mainstream medicine, a better term would be Antipathic medicine from the Greek meaning, ‘against,’ because mainstream medicine takes an adversarial approach as one can see in words like: antibiotic, anti-inflammatory; antihypertensives; anti-arrhythmics; anticonvulsives; antacids and so on and so forth with its militaristic and mechanistic approach.
Research and scientific study also conclude that anti-depressant medication is no more effective than a placebo in treating depression. Turns out “medicine” isn’t all it’s shaped up to be either.
Quite correct. He has created his own bubble of self delusion and is “King” within it.
I don’t know what you think homeopathy is. My sister was basically dying in her early 40’s, and went to many allopaths and none of them could help. It was a homeopath that saved her life. He tested her blood against many foods to find out which ones were inflaming it, and had her stay away from those. He also put her on various supplements and natural
remedies, including a yeast-detox drink, cortico B5 B6, Hypericum (which
was for anxiety, inflammation, anti-viral), and something else she can’t remember now 6-8 years later in good health and able again to eat many of the things that were killing her before. Now she’s just on a rhubarb extract for
hot flashes, flaxseed oil, a fish oil, a digestive amino powder (so
body can break down and get the nutrition out of whole foods) and
inflammation amino powder. None of this was the silly notion of diluting something until there’s only a molecule or two left of it in water.
The thing I love about these guys is the claim that “big pharma” is ignoring homeopathy because they want to make big money off of real drugs….Of course they do….Just like homeopaths want to make big money off of fake drugs that require almost no research and cost very little to make. If “big pharma” could get away with selling homeopathic substances they would be all over it in a heartbeat.
You are right. If BigPharma could make synthetic versions of Homeopathic remedies and therefore patent it as they do with drugs then they would be all over it in a heartbeat.
But they cannot and so it is useless to them but dangerous because Homeopathic remedies are effective, incredibly cheap and they do not have a use-by date if a couple of simple precautions are taken, which means they don’t have to be constantly replaced – which means less profit.
In addition, Homeopathic remedies are never taken for life, as drugs are, or for years as drugs are, but may only require one dose or perhaps half a dozen over a couple of years depending upon how chronic the illness is and therefore have a vastly reduced profit factor.
Another factor is that the correct Homeopathic remedy will bring permanent cure while most prescribed drugs are for maintenance and since the disease is never cured, only managed, maintained or repressed, then the profit factor for Allopathic drugs is gauranteed and extremely high.
You mean the way they make billions off of those patented medicines like acetylsalicylic acid, acetaminophen, rantidine, and omerprazole? Oh wait….NONE of those are patented. And “big pharma” still sells them because they are effective. I notice you neglected to address the issue of “big homeo” making money or are you denying you have any financial stake whatsoever in pushing these fake drugs?
I have absolutely no financial stake in any medical methodology. I happen to believe that over-the-counter Homeopathic remedies are not a good idea and clearly sourced in commercial interests given that they run counter to the very premise upon which Homeopathy is based. But we live in a commercial world and every system has those who will seek to profit from it.
However, because Allopathy exploits many I doubt you would condemn it in general and to operate from a basis of principle, then neither would you condemn Homeopathy in general because some seek to commercialise it.
Even with commercialisation of some aspects of Homeopathy, the reality is that compared to Pharmaceuticals it is minor and it does no harm and Homeopathy as professional medicine remains cheap and does no harm. Something one cannot say for Allopathy.
Then you have not met a professional homeopath. I know less about herbalists but suspect you are wrong on that count also. Of course Homeopathy can cure, that is the point of it. And yes it can be used as a preventative but its major focus is healing, i.e. curing as opposed to Allopathy which manages, maintains or ‘removes’ symptoms most of the time.
There is no doubt that when the body is subject to serious disease the task is greater, whether Homeopathic or Allopathic, and there is no doubt that Allopathy is useful in crisis or mechanistic (when something needs to be surgically repaired) situations, but the point of Homeopathy is always healing. Homeopathy sensibly takes the position that dealing with minor symptoms (as opposed to repressing or removing them which is what Allopathy does) as they arise means that disease does not become major. Studies have shown that people who see a professional Homeopath regularly – and that may be every couple of years – experience less serious disease.
No, it really can’t. There is not one single authentic case where homeopathy can be objectively proven to have cured anybody of anything, ever.
Never let facts get in the way of propaganda. There are thousands of cases but your comments just indicate to people your prejudice and ignorance and negate your argument. Keep up the good work.
Guy, the half-dozen allopaths that my sister went to proved to be a total waste of time and money. It was a homeopath that reversed her process of death, and no it was not with substances that were so diluted so as to only have a couple of molecules of it in a dose. My wife’s story is similar, and it was an acupuncturist who helped her fix her nutrition (something allopaths know nothing about) and motivated her to get counseling for emotional problems left over from an emotionally abusive childhood, problems that had been stuffed and brewing for decades. She hit bottom 2.5 years ago and I truly wondered if I was going to be widowed in the next few years, but she is doing quite well now, and it’s wonderful to have my wife back.
Hemp oil is not homeopathy.
“Hemp oil is not homeopathy” ? What rock are you living under?
If Hemp seed is used as the base to make a homeopathic remedy then you have Homeopathic hemp. Hemp oil is not a Homeopathic remedy. The Homeopathic remedy is Cannabis Sativa – Hemp Oil is not homeopathy.
My mistake rosross. I read hemp & my brain said cannabis lol. Cannabis is what I was referring to so let’s just forget I even commented shall we? 😉
No worries Ashlee. We all hit post before we have thought carefully and the naysayers for Homeopathy and other traditional medicine do it more often than anyone.
If hemp oil cures cancer then a homeopathic preparation of it would cure not having cancer. Like cures like, after all…
Just as well it doesn’t, really.
I think you are a powerful force in support of Homeopathy because people reading your posts can easily see the ignorance, bigotry, irrationality and prejudice. You don’t make sense and so they rely on their own intelligence and common sense. Keep up the good work.
p.s. so you don’t subscribe to chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatments then? You know, they cause cancer and are used to cure cancer.
And I would add, Homeopathy believes that something which triggers certain symptoms in a healthy person can be used to treat an unhealthy person who is presenting with the same symptoms.
Allopathy does the same: Ritalin, used to treat hyperactivity causes the same symptoms in healthy people: Digoxin, used by cardiologists has the same effect in that it causes in healthy people the same symptoms it treats in unhealthy ones. These are but two of a long list.
The difference however is that the Allopathic method is synthetic, ham-fisted and can do harm or cause death while the Homeopathic treatment is gentle, harmless and more effective.
The Alchemy in Homeopathy
http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/uploads/ArticlePDFs/394.pdf
Real medical professionals don’t like homeopathy because it’s water and nothing more. Of course homeopathics like to talk how it was better than alternatives of the day forgetting that nothing we would recognise as sound medicine existed until 100 years or so ago. Also note that “allopathy” is a derogatory term coined by Hahnemann. Thankfully the real world has standards for those who want to become real world healers and the probability of dying from cancer is at an all-time low because of hard-working folks using science to detect various forms of cancer early as well finding better directed ways to treat people. Homeopathy is where it belongs – on the fringes where already healthy people can squander their money for stuff that already flows freely out of their taps and faucets.
If what you call ‘real’ medical professionals, and I assume you mean MD’s, Allopaths, don’t like Homeopathy then why are there millions of MD’s who have also trained as Homeopaths? All French Homeopaths are also trained MD’s by law. Many Indian Homeopaths, a country where Homeopathy is growing very fast, are also trained MD’s. So why do you think, if ‘real medical professionals’ know it is water, they are making use of it?
Homeopaths do not like to talk about how it was better than the alternatives of the day, they merely cite the historical fact that Homeopathy was developed because of the barbarism of the medical practices of the day. Interestingly, those Allopathic doctors who decide to train as Homeopaths, some then give up Allopathic medicine (but not all) and concentrate on Homeopathy, do so because of the barbarism and ineffectiveness, not to mention the destructive nature, of so much of what is called modern medicine.
What Homeopaths like to talk about is a world where all medical methodologies are utilised and a world where Homeopathy works alongside the best of Allopathy. I say the best because much of Allopathy is not just ineffective it is destructive if not deadly. But no-one would deny its usefullness in materialistic and mechanistic terms, i.e. in a crisis or where your body has been seriously injured and requires surgery to be repaired or restored.
I am not sure what you mean by sound medicine but if you mean the use of soundwaves for healing then this medical methodology is actually thousands of years old. But that is a digression.
Hahnemann did not coin Allopathy as a derogatory term and if you knew anything about Homeopathy, which clearly you do not, you would know that. He coined it to differentiate between the two systems of medicine. And, for what it is worth, many medical practitioners don’t have a problem with the name either and allopathy has become increasingly used to label what we call modern medicine.
You are wrong about cancer rates as you are wrong about so many things. There have been one or two areas where rates have improved but generally they have not. What is more sobering is that with all the ‘wonders’ of modern medicine cancer rates have done nothing but increase. In 1900 one in ten people got cancer and now it is one in two. Childhood cancer is now at astronomical levels and still rising. Ponder that.
Why would that be happening if Allopathy was all it claimed to be?
Statistics are a moveable feast and assessing the accuracy of data showing improvement rates is difficult if not impossible unless you know, which most of us do not, who was studied, what was taken into account, what data was crunched and who paid for the study to be done. Much medical research is paid for by drug companies and they get the results they both want and need.
As to your comment about ‘early diagnosis’ the latest research shows it does not impact survival rates and in fact does more harm than good.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/medical-testing-that-does-more-harm-than-good_n_1503192.html
As to Homeopathy being where it belongs, in essence you are right. It is the fastest growing medical methodology in the world and for good reasons:
a. it works
b. it is cheap
c. it does not have sensitive use-by dates. (homeopathic remedies 100 years old have been used and shown to be effective)
The Third World in particular, for the reasons cited above, is showing the greatest rise in Homeopathic use and India in particular where it is now supported by Government – for all the reasons cited above – and healing where healing is needed.
A new and fast-growing area of medicine is, guess what, Integrative medicine, a very sensible approach which has taken a long time to come into being but is now becoming firmly entrenched, where all medical methodologies are utilised in a healing process. It is Allopaths who are pushing Integrative medicine. No doubt because they are aware of how many of their patients are turning to traditional medical methodologies, but also because they can see how ineffective and often deadly their allopathic methods can be. The third biggest killer in the world today is Iatrogenic – doctor or medical induced – that’s right, Heart disease, Cancer and then Allopathy is what kills people.
And within integrative medicine of course you find Homeopathy. We are all fortunate that the ignorance and prejudice toward Homeopathy is not shared by most people in the world, and increasingly, is being discarded by Allopathic doctors, who, after all, do want to heal but are limited by the materialistic, mechanistic (I would add moralistic and militaristic) profit and fear driven approach of what is called modern medicine.
If what you call ‘real’
medical professionals, and I assume you mean MD’s, Allopaths, don’t like
Homeopathy then why are there millions of MD’s who have also trained as
Homeopaths? All French Homeopaths are also trained MD’s by law. Many
Indian Homeopaths, a country where Homeopathy is growing very fast, are
also trained MD’s. So why do you think, if ‘real medical professionals’
know it is water, they are making use of it?
Homeopaths do not like to talk about how it was better than the
alternatives of the day, they merely cite the historical fact that
Homeopathy was developed because of the barbarism of the medical
practices of the day. Interestingly, those Allopathic doctors who decide
to train as Homeopaths, some then give up Allopathic medicine (but not
all) and concentrate on Homeopathy, do so because of the barbarism and
ineffectiveness, not to mention the destructive nature, of so much of
what is called modern medicine.
What Homeopaths like to talk about is a world where all medical
methodologies are utilised and a world where Homeopathy works alongside
the best of Allopathy. I say the best because much of Allopathy is not
just ineffective it is destructive if not deadly. But no-one would deny
its usefullness in materialistic and mechanistic terms, i.e. in a crisis
or where your body has been seriously injured and requires surgery to
be repaired or restored.
I am not sure what you mean by sound medicine but if you mean the use
of soundwaves for healing then this medical methodology is actually
thousands of years old. But that is a digression.
Hahnemann did not coin Allopathy as a derogatory term and if you knew
anything about Homeopathy, which clearly you do not, you would know
that. He coined it to differentiate between the two systems of medicine.
And, for what it is worth, many medical practitioners don’t have a
problem with the name either and allopathy has become increasingly used
to label what we call modern medicine.
You are wrong about cancer rates as you are wrong about so many
things. There have been one or two areas where rates have improved but
generally they have not. What is more sobering is that with all the
‘wonders’ of modern medicine cancer rates have done nothing but
increase. In 1900 one in ten people got cancer and now it is one in two.
Childhood cancer is now at astronomical levels and still rising.
Ponder that.
Why would that be happening if Allopathy was all it claimed to be?
Statistics are a moveable feast and assessing the accuracy of data
showing improvement rates is difficult if not impossible unless you
know, which most of us do not, who was studied, what was taken into
account, what data was crunched and who paid for the study to be done.
Much medical research is paid for by drug companies and they get the
results they both want and need.
As to your comment about ‘early diagnosis’ the latest research shows
it does not impact survival rates and in fact does more harm than good.
(I removed a link to the Huffington post as that required moderation for this post but you can find the story easily enough, and many others, in regard to the above comment.)
As to Homeopathy being where it belongs, in essence you are right. It
is the fastest growing medical methodology in the world and for good
reasons:
a. it works
b. it is cheap
c. it does not have sensitive use-by dates. (homeopathic remedies 100 years old have been used and shown to be effective)
The Third World in particular, for the reasons cited above, is
showing the greatest rise in Homeopathic use and India in particular
where it is now supported by Government – for all the reasons cited
above – and healing where healing is needed.
A new and fast-growing area of medicine is, guess what, Integrative
medicine, a very sensible approach which has taken a long time to come
into being but is now becoming firmly entrenched, where all medical
methodologies are utilised in a healing process. It is Allopaths who are
pushing Integrative medicine. No doubt because they are aware of how
many of their patients are turning to traditional medical methodologies,
but also because they can see how ineffective and often deadly their
allopathic methods can be. The third biggest killer in the world today
is Iatrogenic – doctor or medical induced – that’s right, Heart disease,
Cancer and then Allopathy is what kills people.
And within integrative medicine of course you find Homeopathy. We are
all fortunate that the ignorance and prejudice toward Homeopathy is not
shared by most people in the world, and increasingly, is being
discarded by Allopathic doctors, who, after all, do want to heal but are
limited by the materialistic, mechanistic (I would add moralistic and
militaristic) profit and fear driven approach of what is called modern
medicine.
The simple reality is that Homeopathy will come into its own when there is no longer an antibiotic to fight bacterial infection and we are getting closer to that day. Science/medicine has abused this resource in ways which are criminal and when the day comes when antibiotics are useless, then even the naysayers will turn to Homeopathy. Needs must is often the way that humanity changes course for the better.
Nearly everyone we know who went the industry route for cancer more than five years ago is dead. The only two people we know who said “I’m not going that route” and just cleaned up their diet got well. One had melanoma 3.5 years ago, and the other was 25 or 30 years ago, and they’re fine today. The cancer industry literally kills its patients with surgery and needle biopsies that free up cancer cells to go floating around in the body and find another place to set up shop, chemotherapy that destroys the immune system that you need for health, and radiation which is carcinogenic. Oncologists make insane profits off of chemotherapy drugs which have a 2-3% success rate, when the healing rate of doing nothing at all is over 20%, and getting serious about natural remedies is something like 80% successful (although it’s hard to define what “getting serious” is). There are thousands of testimonies online of people who healed from cancer by natural means, some of them after the industry gave up on them and sent them home to die. We had nearly 100% successful cancer cures in the 1940’s and 50’s but the allopathic industry called it quackery and shut them down with its lobbying muscle. Watch the movie available online, “Cancer: The Forbidden Cures.” As for “early detection,” it’s just like the allopathic industry to always come up a day late. How about getting ahead of it and recognizing and helping get rid of the causes of cancer. But they tell us it’s “just bad luck,” or genes, and that nutrition has nothing to do with it, all incorrect assertions. Allopaths are great for trauma, but they know little about disease and nothing about nutrition.
Only those who can ‘think outside the box’ will be able to begin to push science toward the place where it can understand how Homeopathy works. Luckily there are a few in the fields of Quantum physics and Cellular Biology.
In the meantime Homeopathy continues to heal and do no harm and those who make use of it don’t care that science doesn’t understand the how of it. While the noise of doors closing in the minds of many scientists in the UK and the US can still be heard, and will be for a while yet, the Europeans, as always, are more open-minded and sensible and not afraid to push the boundaries of knowledge and challenge the ‘sacred cows’ of scientific belief:
Quasi-quantum phenomena: the key to understanding homeopathy.
Molski M.
Entanglement model of homeopathy as an example of generalized entanglement predicted by weak quantum theory.
Walach H.
Source
Samueli
Institute-European Office, Institut für Umweltmedizin und
Krankenhaushygiene, Klinikum der Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
walach@ukl.uni-freiburg.de
Effectiveness, Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Homeopathy in General Practice – Summarized Health Technology Assessment
Bornhöft G.a,d · Wolf U.b,d · Ammon K.b · Righetti M.c · Maxion- Bergemann S.d · Baumgartner S.b · Thurneysen A.b · Matthiessen P.F.a,d
aChair in Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
bInstitute for Complementary Medicine (KIKOM), Inselspital, University of Berne, Switzerland
cMedical Practice, Zurich, dPanMedion Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Bunk, bunk and more bunk.
How insightful and erudite. Quite a contribution.
Actually much more “insightful” than your rants on the subject.
🙂
One other point needs to be made, on the basis that in every ‘curse’ there is a gift. One often overlooked fact is that the anti-Homeopathy brigade is actually doing Homeopathic Medicine an enormous favour because it is pushing the system to improve.
Any system, particularly any medical system requires professionalism and professionalism requires regulation. That does not mean that there will not still be charlatans, incompetents, mistakes and unprofessionalism as Allopathic Medicine so consistently demonstrates, but it does mean there are regulations in place which contribute to greater professionalism in general and the highest standards in general.
Regulation is required in all fields, as the banking/economic fiasco in the US some years ago so clearly demonstrated. And that is because without regulation you are relying on the best of human nature and the ‘best’ of human nature, without regulation, will always be pulled down to the worst of human nature because that will be the baseline which is set. There are always people who will rort any system for profit, whether literal or metaphorical, and only regulations can keep them in check and maintain high standards of behaviour and operation.
The better regulated and more professional Homeopathic Medicine is, the better it is for practitioners and of course patients. With such a brilliant and advanced medical methodology, one which is going to be crucial to human health in the future as chronic illness increases due to Allopathic treatments, and Allopathic treatments fail because of abuse and overuse of antibiotics first and foremost but procedures and interventions in general, it is absolutely vital that the profession and the system in which it functions operates to the very highest standards.
While most of what the opposers put forward is sourced more in ignorance and propaganda than any sort of fact, and that is easily recognised by anyone who knows something about Homeopathy and by ordinary people with high levels of common sense, the reality is that while Homeopathy is excellent, the system in which it is practised is in need of improvement.
Through reacting and responding to the negativity and the movement which seeks to discredit Homeopathy, the methodology, profession and system can only improve and that is to the benefit of all. And that will place Homeopathy in the best position to meet the needs of a failing Allopathic system and the failing health of billions of people around the world. It will also put it in the best position to be seen as the medicine of the future – a form of energy medicine developed far ahead of its time, but a methodology which will be embraced by Allopathy, as it must be, and play a vital role in re-writing and re-working the understanding and approach of science/medicine in general.
I believe it is very important that Homeopaths do not get caught up in personal battles with the naysayers, but use the impetus which such challenge brings, to make Homeopathy, methodology and practice, the best that it can be. The movement against Homeopathy cannot hurt it; the only ‘hurt’ it can bring is if Homeopaths are distracted by it and allow their focus to be on the movement and not on Homeopathy and its future.
Homeopathy does not need defending but it does need to be the best it can be and that is where the focus and the effort must go.
They lack to understand homeopathy through quantum physics. They know it, but will never admit it. Its all about energy, not the molecule in the medicine.