's War...forewarned is forearmed......

[Guest guest]

Please.........PEOPLE !!!!..........

does not need me to speak for him, I know, and I apologize to him for

sticking my nose in here.........but I just can't keep my big mouth shut, it

seems. This man does not have a war going on with Alternative Medicine.

His war is against " misinformation " and inadequate knowledge.......his advice

is for caution and common sense. Am I the only one who has noticed just how

much alternative medicine he has taken part in himself?

Some of us are sitting around keeping score here without using our full powers

of deduction.......in my humble opinion. Just as an example.....(no offense

meant to Jeanne or anyone else)........it seemed quite impressive that

Jeanne's daughter became very ill while at school years ago. After being put

on Erythromycin (sp), she became worse. Jeanne took her to a Homeopathic

doctor who took her off of the antibiotic and treated her with his

medicine.......and she became well.

For goodness sake........when she took her daughter to this doctor, he surely

asked what her symptoms were and what medicines she had taken. It was very

sensible to come to the deduction that the girl was allergic to the drug she

was given, and that her original " traditional " doctor had been somewhat

negligent....( if he had been informed of her reactions)... By removing her

from this medication, one would expect that the offending symptoms would

cease. No one in this whole group has ever denied that there is danger of

allergy or side effects from traditional medicine. We discuss these things

every single day on this list. In almost every case though, these allergies

and side effects have been documented and should always be watched for by a

competent physician. This is not true of most alternative medications. We do

not have a guarantee as to what is even in the bottles that we buy~! Each of

us has the right to choose whichever treatment we want. There are good

doctors and bad doctors.....good medicines and bad medicines.........the only

war left to fight here is that there are also good and bad supplements, and

like it or not, we have got to allow, even demand, that someone take a look

at what we are taking on our own and what the possible dangers might be.....so

that we can at least be acting with more reliable information.

How many of us have taken the time to trace the history of medicine in Europe

and the evolution of antiseptics from the time of the great plagues until

today? Look at life expectancy.......How can we question the Shah of Iran

dying after coming to America for traditional medicine...........when it is

quite possible that he was being treated Homeopathically for most of his life

and quite possibly this was the reason he was so ill by the time he came here?

We do not know the answers to these questions and what we should be fighting

for here is the proper, controlled research to get these answers.

This is the decade of the Brain. We have not even begun to learn what powers

we are capable of within ourselves. Alternative and traditional medicines are

finally attempting to come together and work toward treating the whole person.

We may indeed find out that we are causing most of our own illnesses with our

lifestyle, diet, pesticides, stress.....whatever. There is no one amongst us

who has not been made to feel better by a warm hug and gentle soothing from

Mommy. We believed she could make it all better.....and darned if she didn't!

Most of the time.............

Personally, after much study on my own, I do not believe in Homeopathy.......

But I DO believe in the power of the brain.......and massage........and I

believe in common sense and logic. I am thankful that I did not get

Polio......or Tuberculosis.........or Smallpox.......or Hepatitis.......or

Diabetes for that matter. If I have a stroke or a heart attack, you can be

sure I will be heading for the nearest Emergency Room. I am constantly in awe

at what science is accomplishing in our world today. I am sickened by the

state of healthcare as a business......

Now, as far as putting a cake of soap at the foot of my bed to cure my

RLS.............I suppose it's possible that if it were a very strong Lavender

Soap, the resulting fragrance might exert some calming affect/effect on the

nerves in my body. I've also read that a few drops of pure vanilla is

beneficial if you are about to undergo a stressful medical test............

Hey, it couldn't hoit !!! ;> (g)

Connie.......now 62.........MD