Homeopathy For Women Today

One party Homeopathy won’t be joining!     by Chris Day on Mon 05 Nov 2007 07:30 GMT  |

 http://chris-day.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/11/5/3334854.html

In the USA:

“Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) result in more than 2.1 million injuries each year and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 100,000 Americans die annually of adverse reactions to prescription drugs”

“The FDA’s Office of Drug Risk Assessment calculates only 1% of ADEs are reported.” http://www.centerfordrugsafety.org/PAT_ADEStat.asp

In the UK:

The BMJ’s Clinical Evidence website recently stated that only 15% of the 2,404 orthodox medical treatments reviewed were effective and 47% were of unknown effectiveness. www.clinicalevidence.com

Personally, I’d be keeping quiet about the evidence base of medicine, if I were promoting conventional medicine. I’d be keeping still quieter about the evidence base of other disciplines!

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Note from Vimala -

From the time of its founding over 200 years ago, Homeopathy has been severely criticized and condemned by many. They argue that Homeopathy is not “scientific”, it is not “evidence-based”, due to the following:

• The first point of contention is the way Homeopathic remedies are made - by a process of serially diluting and vigorously shaking the original substance known as Potentisation. The dilution renders that no molecule of the original substance remains in the “Potentised remedy” beyond a certain point.
• The second point of contention is that higher the dilution (or potentisation) the stronger the remedy seems to become
• The third point of contention is that with such potentised remedies, we need to give only very few doses (unlike in conventional or allopathic medicine)
• The fourth point of contention is that even though millions of people all over the world have used homeopathic remedies and thousands of clinical records show their efficacy, to date no one has been able to show (or ”scientifically prove”) how these remedies work 
• The fifth point of contention is that Homeopathic remedies did not perform better than placebos, in so-called “scientific” trials.

As a homeopath, I can understand the arguments even though I do not agree with them.  More about that in another post.

However, at this time, the point is this - how many people have died from using homeopathic remedies as directed, how many have been left with irreversible side-effects, how many have been left with severe damage due to doctor/ hospital errors?  Even the critics will agree that Homeopathic remedies, as stated in the Hippocratic oath, above all, do no harm.

The statistics given above by Chris Day show that while conventional or allopathic medicine is doing good, it is also doing a lot of harm.

What would you rather use -

• a system like Homeopathy that does no harm, at worst does not work, at best gives you good results, all without burning a hole in your pocket  OR
• a system that claims to be “scientific” or “evidence-based”, and tells you adverse drug side-effects are something that you must suffer if you want to get better (!!!!!!!!). 

For myself and my children, if we can get well with so-called placebos, I am all for it. I have nothing to lose and something to gain, all without adverse side-effects.  Why not? 

I have nothing against conventional or allopathic medicine - it has its place, especially in emergency situations and surgical cases.  But to say that it is the ONLY option is not true.

I have relatives and friends who are physicians, who are well-meaning people who truly want their patients to get well. Yet, when I talk with them about adverse drug side-effects, they tell me there is “no choice”.

My answer to that is - there is a choice, in fact, more than one choice. Today, we have access to an unprecedented number of complementary and alternative treatment options. Besides Homeopathy, we have the several thousand years old Ayurveda (East Indian medicine) and Traditional Chinese medicine that offer complete solutions. Then there is Yoga therapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Nutritional therapy, etc that can complement your other treatments and aid healing.

Go ahead and explore your “choices”. I wish you fantastic health.

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