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I've nearly died twice on the operating table in operations that are considered safe outpatient procedures.
I've had a few bad effects from drugs. I guess this means that I should no longer trust doctors (Big Med?) or drugs (Big Pharma)? But I should trust homeopathic Doctors (Big Woo?) and their 'drugs' (Big Water)? I'm so confused. |
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Basically my first thought but then I saw:
Although, I would appreciate less rancor and insults too. This and this: The human mind is such that we generally prefer anecdotes and stories to actual evidence, especially when those stories back up what we already believe. Yes, surgeries go wrong, yes folks die in hospitals, sometimes as a direct result of the interventions. Also, our life expectancy is roughly double what it was for the first few thousand years of history and civilization, mostly because there are a lot fewer babies and children dying because of "allopathic" medicine. I'd probably be a deformed cripple now if not for such surgeries. So, I guess that proves they always work. Well, I am a little deformed and crippled. Caroline, I'm sorry your surgery went bad. I'd be curious how the statistics for such surgeries compare to craps. I'm pretty sure its not a crap shoot. |
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Oh I ended up in the ER in the 80's from a pharma drug, that was my turningpoint on the heavy duty drug world... And 2 surgeries and if I ever go fr a knife again, I need a major head examine.
30 yrs of sciatic nerve damage from hysterectomy when I was in my early 40's. 10yrs+ of body damage from hip replacement at 72. That's it and want NO MORE. Thank goodness I'm retired and now need to count on friends/family to get where I have an appt. And Yes, I do all I can to avoid major drugs and surgeries NOW. |
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Homeopathy does not reverse joint damage, but it can help manage a lot. It's not toxic and can take some time and some can work immediately.
What can also work to prevent joint surgery is Regenerative Medicine, aka Dextrose Prolothereapy, PRP and Stem Cells. I've had some sessions but insurance does NOT pay, it can work and would put a lot of surgeons out of business. Check out https://www.getprolo.com/ These providers are all over the world. There would still be plenty of surgeries done, just LESS elective ones if Regenerative Medicine was handled by the health/sick insurance companies. |
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Do you know why homeopathy is not toxic? It's because there is literally no active compound in it to be toxic. It's a sugar pill, and water. There are literally no other ingredients - they have all been diluted away to nothingness. A sugar pill, and water. That's all.
Homeopathy: there's nothing in it. |
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I don't believe you have ever identified this "pharma drug" that put you in ER.
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Arthwollipot has already explained this to you. In Arsenicum album 30C (Aa30C) the homeopathic drug to "fight Covid-19" there are no actual arsenic molecules in the "medicine" as they are diluted out of existence.
A Homeopathic Defence Against COVID-19 Is No Defence at All https://science.thewire.in/the-scien...stry-of-ayush/ "Starting with a “mother tincture” that has 200 grams of arsenic trioxide in 1 litre of liquid, the 30C potency medicine has one molecule of the active material present in a volume equivalent to that of 1 million Suns. In terms of the active material, an individual is consuming zero molecules." Explain to us how homeopathic arsenic "medicine" works, if there is no actual arsenic left? You can't, can you? ![]() |
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At this point, homeopaths love to trot out the "memory of water" argument. The dilution water is supposed to retain the "memory" of the remedy that was dissolved in it from dozens of rinses ago. It has to do this, as there is no other explanation why the potion
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We have. "Like cures like" is nonscientific nonsense that predates even the germ theory of disease. Do you believe in germs, Caroline?
The other principle of homeopathy that you appear to not be aware of or are ignoring is that the more dilute something is, the stronger it gets. Even when it is diluted so much that there is no chance of even a single molecule of the mother tincture being present. The strongest substance is no substance at all, according to homeopathy. Can you not see how patently absurd that is? |
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If water had a memory we wouldn't have to buy homeopathic medicines at all. All the water on earth would remember everything. You'd get as good a result dipping into the ocean.
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Hey Arth, why don't you post some good info? How about that, go ahead, I dare you.
For that matter why don't all of you post some good information for all to think about. Not just attacks on others info. |
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Damage Done:
Shorter Right Leg Femoral Nerve Damage IT Band Damage Greater Trochanter Muscle Bursitis Years of Neuropathy Right foot damage from shorter leg and unstable body I'm left with. And advancing Osteoarthritis from it all. You want more? And YES, I wondered for years how would I be today if I had NOT done the major hip job...But as we know surgery can't be undone. |
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Here you go. It's not only entertaining, but the best 17 minutes you ever spent.
https://youtu.be/c0Z7KeNCi7g or, better yet: https://youtu.be/0jqP_1beVXQ |
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This isn't my first rodeo, Caroline. I did all the research years ago. I even once publicly made a 28C homeopathic dilution of straight hydrochloric acid (demonstrated by reacting with calcium carbonate ie. shell grit). I used all of the "proper" methods up to and including banging it against a leather bound Bible. Of course, I drank that down without hesitation, because even at the relatively low 28C dilution there was absolutely no HCl left. Even at 12C, the amount of HCl in the vessel would have been the equivalent of a pinch of salt in the North and South Atlantic oceans.
And no, it didn't cure my acid reflux. It might interest you to know that although Samuel Hahnemann, who first conceived of homeopathy in 1796, mandated that the dilution be struck against a leather-bound Bible in between each dilution, modern industrial homeopathic factories no longer do this. They don't even measure the dilution accurately. Instead, the remaining liquid clinging to the sides of the vessel after it is emptied is considered sufficient for the next dilution. This is known as the Korsakovian method. So I would say, Caroline, that if you don't know what the letters X and C mean in a remedy, if you haven't heard of the Korsakovian method or trituration, if you don't know what the process of "proving" entails, then I'd say that you don't know as much as you think you do about homeopathy. |
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Ok, here's some good info:
Dr. Fauci knows what he's talking about. States whose administrations listen to him (like Vermont) do better than those that don't. Covid-19 is a real pandemic disease that makes many people sick and kills many of those. Responsible people will follow guidelines so as not to harm their neighbors even if they doubt the efficacy of all the guidelines. Intelligent people will get vaccinated so as to provide true herd immunity rather than its endemic simulacrum. Good enough for you? Dispute all you want, but don't claim nobody's telling you this stuff. oh, and a free bonus: homeopathy is utter rubbish. The idea that diluting anything to nothing increases its potency is insanely stupid. |
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A separate post for this. It is inherently a homeopathic thread (or, given its initiator, more an anti-homeopathic thread), because the term "allopathic" is a neologism coined by the founder of homeopathy, Dr. Hahneman, specifically to designate all medicine that is not homeopathic.
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Okay. I've searched in Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology, I've searched in General Skepticism and The Paranormal, and I've searched in Social Issues & Current Events. I've even searched in Forum Community. I have at this time been unable to locate the Homeopathy Thread. As a result, this is the closest thing we have, since as bruto points out the word "allopathy" is a nonsense word that is exclusively used by the homeopathic industry (Big Homeo), coined by the founding father of homeopathy, and used to describe medicine that is not homeopathy. In other words, medicine.
Hence, my good information will remain in this thread. |
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No, I've Never made a homeopathic remedy. I would not know where to start, I buy them and they are very affordable.
I did get into Collodial Silver back in 1995 and made my own for some time, bought all the stuff I needed to make it and enjoyed doing it. Now I buy it t hat too. |
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I repeat, whatever you may think, this thread is headed "Allopathic Medicine," and was started as a celebration of the thing that homeopathy is not, using a term that was invented by the inventor of homeopathy. Like it or not, homeopathy (or perhaps more correctly, the bashing of homeopathy) is entirely germane to the thread topic.
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It's very simple. All you need is some of your mother tincture (I used undiluted hydrochloric acid) and a whole lot of water.
The rank absurdity of this process should be obvious. And if you don't believe me that this is how you make a homeopathic remedy, you are free to look it up. I assure you I am being absolutely truthful. |
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Some of us are. Or, at least, we completed all the studies necessary to become one. This is why we KNOW it is piffle.
Since we have been providing the classic Hahnemann homeopathic doctrine, and you are calling it "mumbo jumbo", perhaps you are unintentionally making progress towards the light. |
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