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Posted by Elena Cecchetto at February 6th, 2008
Excerpt of Article by Dana Ullman.
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The Need for Safe Alternatives
Parents tend to be more concerned about their children’s diet, safety, and hygiene than they are about their own, and are inclined to seek out quality health care for their children, even for minor complaints. Unfortunately, parental concern too often translates into anxiety and fear, preventing parents from taking constructive action at home. Instead, many parents with a sick child immediately take their child to a doctor, even for minor ailments, hoping that the doctor will simply make the problem go away.
The care that conventional physicians offer is often valuable, but powerful drugs are dispensed far too frequently by too many doctors without an effort to try safer, more natural therapies. It seems prudent to save the bigger guns for the more serious conditions that warrant their use.
Dr. Joe Graedon, pharmacologist and author of The People’s Pharmacy, warns parents and doctors about prescribing drugs to infants and children: “Their immature organ systems often deal with drugs much differently than their grown-up version will a few years later, and the differences can lead to anything from uncomfortable reactions to deadly ones.”
The short-term effects of most drugs on infants and children are often unknown, and the long-term effects are not simply unknown but can be frightening. A 1990 study by the U.S. Government’s General Accounting Office reviewed the 198 new drugs which were approved by the F.D.A. between 1976 and 1985. The study discovered that more than half of these drugs caused serious reactions that had gone undetected until several years after widespread use. The report also showed that the drugs reviewed by the F.D.A. for use by children were twice as likely to lead to serious reactions as those approved for use by adults. Some of the most severe reactions included heart failure, anaphylactic shock, convulsions, kidney and liver failure, severe blood disorders, birth defects, blindness, and even death. The seriousness of these side effects is enough to send chills up any parent’s spine; hopefully, parents and physicians will soon understand the importance of using conventional drugs more conservatively.
Most people do not realize that many conventional drugs are not tested on children. The safety and effectiveness of giving drugs to children have not been established. When it comes to calculating doses or anticipating side effects, children are not little adults.
Additional risks arise when a physician prescribes more than one drug at a time. Surveys have shown that over 20% of all visits to a doctor by children under 15 years of age include a prescription for two or more drugs per visit. Many types of drugs, which may be relatively safe when given alone, can become dangerous when prescribed along with another drug. The long-term effect of giving certain drugs to infants, especially two or more drugs at a time, remains unknown. One day in the future we might consider frequent prescription of such drugs on infants and children to be a form of medical child abuse.
This kind of overprescribing is sometimes the result of inadequate knowledge of recent research. It also sometimes occurs because a doctor feels compelled to prescribe something for a sick child. Doctors often assume that the medicine, even if not certain to be effective, will at least have a beneficial placebo effect. However, considering the potential side effects from nearly every drug, it seems more prudent to consider more mild placebos or safer medicines, such as homeopathic remedies.
It is somehow ironic that some people consider homeopathic and other natural medicines to be “radical.” It seems more appropriate to consider the use of powerful drugs and invasive surgical treatment as radical, while natural therapies to be “conservative.” Ultimately, this is part of the revolution that must take place, not only a change in the medicines we use to heal ourselves and our children, but also in the way that we think about the art of healing.
References
1Joe Graedon, The People’s Pharmacy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985, 372.
2FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-85, GAO/PEMD-90-15, Gaithersburg, MD.
3Irene Wielawski, “Drug Advances Leave Children Out in the Cold,” L.A. Times, January 18, 1990, E1+.4Ibid.
5″Highlights of Drug Utilization in Office Practice, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1985 NCHS Advance Data, May 19, 1987, 134.
Taken from: www.homeopathic.com
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 30th, 2008
“The characteristic symptoms will consist in the result obtained by deducting all the symptoms generally pertaining to the disease with which the patient suffers, from those elicited by a thorough examination of the case.”
In other words the characteristic symptoms are the symptoms peculiar to the individual patient, rather than the symptoms common to the disease.
An editor of a medical journal challenged Lippe to publish his mandatory report to the state for the two previous years. He had not lost a single case ill from acute disease. He had the largest medical practice in Philadelphia. In 1849 here was an epidemic of scarlet fever. Lippe treated over 150 cases and lost none.
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 30th, 2008
Homeopathy’s Contribution to the Treatment of Allergies
Little known facts of history show that it was a British homeopath, C.H. Blackely, who in 1871 was the first to recognize that seasonal sneezing and nasal discharge were the result of exposure to pollen. An American homeopath, Dr. Grant Selfridge was one of three physicians to start an organization that became the present American Academy of Allergy.
Although conventional allergy treatment borrows from the homeopathic approach by its use of small doses of substances to which a person is allergic, homeopaths use even smaller doses of allergens. Three studies, two of which were published in The Lancet (A British Medical Journal), have confirmed the success in using homeopathic medicines to treat allergic disorders. Because of this repeated success, the researchers concluded that either homeopathic medicines work or controlled studies do not.
Taken from: www.homeopathic.com
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 28th, 2008
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Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 23rd, 2008
The Hollywood Connection
Major Hollywood stars commonly recognize that beauty starts from within, and growing numbers of Hollywood stars are using homeopathic medicines to help them maintain inner health so that they can exude that outer beauty. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Pamela Anderson, Lindsay Wagner, Tina Turner, Jane Fonda, Jane Seymour, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Rosie O’Donnell, Angelica Houston, Mariel Hemingway, Sissy Spacek, Paul McCartney, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Linda Gray, Martin Sheen, Nick Nolte, ER Star Julianna Margulies, Olivia Newton-John, fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Franks, Cybill Sheppard, Ashley Judd, Naomi Judd, Vidal Sassoon, Lesley Anne Warren, Axl Rose, Marlene Dietrich, Michael York, and Courtney Thorne-Smith are but a handful of the stars that use or have used homeopathic medicines.
Taken from: www.homeopathic.com
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 17th, 2008
Interest in Homeopathy
In 1900 there were 22 homeopathic medical schools in the U.S. , including Boston University , University of Michigan , New York Medical College, and Hahnemann University.
There were also over 100 homeopathic hospitals and approximately 15% of physicians considered themselves homeopaths. As the result of harsh attacks and political pressures from the A.M.A. and from drug companies, most homeopathic colleges closed down by 1920.
A survey published in 1997 showed that 49% of a random sample of primary care physicians who are members of the AMA want training in homeopathy, that 13.8% refer patients to homeopaths, that 5.9% have prescribed homeopathic medicines, and that one-third “would use or have used” homeopathy in own practice.
Reference for further information on the history of homeopathy: Harris L. Coulter, PhD, Divided Legacy: The Conflict Between Homoeopathy and the A.M.A. , Berkeley: North Atlantic , 1975. Survey: British Homeopathic Journal , July, 1997.
Taken from: http://www.homeopathic.com/
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at January 7th, 2008
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The surprising story of Charles Darwin and his homeopathic doctor
What science and history may owe to homeopathic medicine
A new scholarly written book describes hundreds of well-known and respected physicians, scientists, politicians, corporate leaders, and literary greats who used or advocated for homeopathic medicine. Eleven U.S. Presidents, seven popes, Sir William Osler, J.D. Rockefeller, Charles Kettering, and C. Everett Koop are among those famous people who were known to have benefited from homeopathy. Perhaps most surprisingly is the evidence of Charles Darwin’s use of homeopathic medicines and the significant results he received from them.
In the new book, The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (North Atlantic Books, 2007), Dana Ullman presents strong evidence derived primarily from Charles Darwin’s own letters about the treatment he received from a homeopathic physician. Ullman suggests that Charles Darwin would not have lived long enough to have completed his seminal work, The Origin of Species, in 1859 if he didn’t get homeopathic treatment ten years previously.
It is well known that Darwin became very ill during his trip to South America in the late 1830s. His health continued to decline, and he was so ill that he couldn’t attend his own father’s funeral in 1848. He suffered from severe and constant nausea, heart palpitations, widespread boils, and trembling for 12 years, and by 1849, he had suffered from fainting spells and spots before his eyes for two years. According to Darwin’s letters, he was not able to work one day in every three.
Finally, in 1849, he sought the treatment from Dr. James Manby Gully, a homeopathic physician who owned a hydrotherapy spa. Although Darwin was skeptical of homeopathy, he obediently took the prescription of homeopathic medicines his doctor gave him, and within a month, his health was considerably better. Darwin didn’t have nausea for a month, gained some weight, took a seven mile walk (which he was previously unable to do), and then wrote to a friend, “I am turning into a mere walking and eating machine.” After just a month of treatment, he had to admit that Dr. Gully’s treatment was not quackery after all.
Ullman also has uncovered some of Darwin’s own experiments using extremely small “homeopathic” doses of various ammonia salts and watched their significant effects on insect-eating plants (Drosera rotundifolia). He was so shocked by his experiments that he had his son replicate them, and ultimately, he felt embarrassed to have to report on their surprising findings. Although Darwin provided details about the exceedingly small doses he tested, he never used the word “homeopathic” when referring to these experiments. He wrote, “I am quite unhappy at the thought of having to publish such a statement” about these results. An endorsement of homeopathy by Darwin at that time might have led to great antagonism against his new theories about life and evolution.
Many famous people benefited from Dr. Gully’s care, including Charles Dickens (novelist and writer), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (poet), Florence Nightingale (famed nurse), George Eliot (British novelist), Thomas Carlyle (Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (British novelist, playwright, and politician), Thomas Babington Macaulay (first Baron Macaulay, poet and politician), and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Further, three prime ministers sought Dr. Gully’s care, including William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and George Hamilton-Gordon, as well as Queen Victoria herself. Hamilton-Gordon described Dr. Gully as “the most gifted physician of the age.”
According to Ullman’s book, other leading physicians and scientists who used and/or advocated for homeopathy, including Sir William Osler (the “father of modern medicine”), Emil Adolph von Behring (the “father of immunology”), August Bier, MD (the “father of spinal anesthesia”), Harold Griffith, MD (founding president of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists), Charles Frederick Menninger, MD (founder of the Menninger Clinic), and C. Everett Koop, MD (former Surgeon General of the United States).
Besides physicians and scientists, this book uncovers biographical information about many cultural heroes of the past 200 years, including various literary greats (Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, Goethe, George Bernard Shaw, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez), sports superstars (David Beckham and Martina Navratilova), musicians (Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Tina Turner, Cher), politicians (11 U.S. presidents, Gandhi, Tony Blair), clergy (seven popes and leading rabbis and Muslim clerics), and corporate leaders (JD Rockefeller, Charles Kettering).
Besides the personal stories from history and the present day, this book also reviews modern high quality clinical research and evaluates both positive and negative outcomes. Ultimately, the preponderance of scientific and historical evidence shows how the placebo effect is an inadequate explanation for the clinical results from homeopathic treatment. Ullman also reviews recent basic science evidence that provide new insights into how homeopathic nanodoses may have biological activity.
Source: http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,128
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at December 20th, 2007
Homeopathy: Proof from scientists about how it might work
Scientists and doctors who declare that homeopathy is bunk because of the dilution effect don’t understand the qualities of water, a leading chemist has claimed.
Rustum Roy, research professor of materials at Arizona State University, says that water does indeed have a ‘memory’ and can contain elements of an original substance, even after it has been diluted one million times.
For most scientists, this is an impossibility, and one that defies all scientific laws. But, says Prof Roy, that’s because they haven’t made a special study of water. For those who have, such as Prof Martin Chaplin of the South Bank University in London, the debunkers seem to merely hold to the position that they simply don’t believe it. “Such unscientific rhetoric is heard from the otherwise sensible scientists, with a narrow view of the subject and without any examination or appreciation of the full body of evidence, and reflects badly on them,” he says.
Prof Eugene Stanley at Boston University has catalogued 64 “highly anomalous” property changes in pure water, which, according to materials science, means there must be the same number of different structures in water, or ‘polymorphism’, as he calls it.
(Source: The Guardian, December 19, 2007).
Posted by Elena Cecchetto at November 1st, 2007
Cindy Crawford’s Celebrity Home was highlighted on Oprah.
Cindy Crawford uses Homeopathy for her pets and children.
To quote from Oprah’s website:
Cindy plays many roles at home—wife, mother
and even doctor! That’s why she never leaves
home without a natural first aid kit. “I’m a big fan
of homeopathy. If I have the kids, for sure I always
take this with me—bee stings, mosquito bites,
bruises” she says. And she never forgets her
homeopathic bible, ‘Homeopathic Medicine
at Home’ by Maesimund B. Panos.
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200710/20071030/slide_20071030_350_105.jhtml
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