Conventional vs Alternative

[Guest guest]

Hi, Sharon.

I certainly did not miss that point, and I certainly agree with you.

However, some of the things you mention in your post trouble me

because they do sound like hocus-pocus---things such as " energy

imbalance, " bio-energy of the cells, " " living next to a radio

station " and " parasites. "

That is my own personal feeling about those particular things you

mentioned. Other things you mentioned I myself believe and follow. I

don't deny those things I have questioned; I just am very unsure

about them and they sound strange to me, personally.

What I would LOVE to see would be for mainstream science and

mainstream medicine to stop treating " alternative " medicine like it's

just a lot of garbage and clap-trap, worth only the time it takes to

ridicule and discredit it. What I would LOVE to see would be for

mainstream science and medicine to make a REAL EFFORT, through REAL,

SOLID STUDIES, to PROVE or DISPROVE the validity of as many

alternative treatments as possible.

Mainstream medicine and mainstream research simply does NOT have

anything near the kind of track record with its own efforts at

eradicating cancer that it can afford to take such a " holier than

thou " attitude. And if mainstream medicine really wants to convince

those who desire to follow alternative methods that those methods

don't work, then they ought to devote some REAL effort, and not just

words, to finding out if they work or not.

[Guest guest]

This is something of an artificial polarization as there are

increasing numbers of clinicians who minimize the amount of

conventional therapies they recommend and maximize those that seem

natural to them. Surgery is sometimes mandatory no matter your

philosophy, for example, a mechanical treatment for a mechanical

problem -- such as an intestinal, airway, or vascular obstruction.

That said, if I were forced to choose between the chemo-radiation

route and " anything and everything else " (natural, off-label,

unsupervised experimental, etc.) I would choose the " all else "

category as long as I had access to the best of these options.

There are those who are in a panic because of lack health insurance

they have no access to the " necessary " chemo and radiation. This can

actually be their good fortune if they are open to casting a wider

net, but so many are willing to die rather than stray from the

sacerdotal medical autocrats and the sacraments of chemo and radiation.