[Mb-civic] it has started in england in the lancet and on tv and radio

Alexander Harper harperalexander at mail.com
Tue Aug 30 14:19:25 PDT 2005 

Well it has worked on me for years.That is a fact. Bollocks to the Lancet and the drug companies. Incidentally is 'demolishment' a real word or is it a recently invented replacement for 'demolishing', a perfectly respectable gerund, or even 'demolition' or am I just giving you all yet another public display of ignorance clothed in pedantry?
AlB
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Subject: Re: [Mb-civic] it has started in england in the lancet and on tv and	radio
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:58:30 GMT

> 
> Damn..... ANOTHER good article... Thank heavens for the Civic 
> List......  :-)   I will shut up now.
> 
> peace,
> barbara
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> Subject: [Mb-civic] it has started in england in the lancet and on 
> tv and radio
> 
> So you can be informed when it hits this country.
> Bill
> 
> The Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy and its Demolishment by the World
> Media
> 
> by Louise Mclean
> 
> 27th August 2005.
> 
> 
> Anyone who read the papers, watched the news or listened to their radios
> yesterday might be forgiven for wondering what yesterdayÂ’s media
> demolishment of homeopathy was all about.  It comes hard on the heels of a
> report on 24th August that Prince Charles commissioned a study on the
> economic benefits of complementary medicine and a report in The Times UK on
> 21st August which stated that ‘demand for alternative therapies such as
> acupuncture and homeopathy is soaring and people are increasingly using
> their medical insurance to pay for itÂ’.
> 
> 
> 
> This news appears to have sent the pharmaceutical companies into a flat
> spin and they went into coordinated overdrive to get all their favourite
> medical and science correspondents to put out highly negative stories about
> homeopathic medicine in newspapers all around the world.  These reports
> were based on a very unfavourable study on homeopathy published in the
> Lancet which stated that the benefits of homeopathy could be all in the
> patientÂ’s mind.  The study was unveiled with fanfare at the end of a week
> full of complimentary articles about alternative medicine.
> 
> 
> 
> Commenting on the study Prince Charles commissioned, Professor Edzard
> Ernst, the only professor of complementary medicine in Britain, made
> unfavourable remarks about homeopathy and yet in an article of 22nd
> November, 2003 entitled ‘A Scientist in the Alternative 
> CampÂ’ published
> in the British Medical Journal Online, he says: ‘Our family doctor in the
> little village outside Munich where I grew up was a homoeopath. My mother
> swore by it. As a kid I was treated homoeopathically. So this kind of
> medicine just came naturallyÂ’.
> 
> 
> 
> The ferocity of the media attack can only mean one thing – that there is a
> huge rise in popularity of homeopathic medicine and that it is now becoming
> a threat to the billion dollar drug industry!  This worldwide revolution
> has taken place almost entirely by word of mouth and by personal
> recommendation - a truly remarkable phenomenon because up until now the
> media has studiously ignored and excluded any positive news on the subject. 
> 
> 
> 
> A few years ago the programme Horizon on BBC 2 tried to demolish the work
> of Dr. Jacques Benveniste whose studies proved that homeopathic medicines
> work.  Benveniste claimed his studies had been replicated hundreds of
> times.  Dr. David Reilly of the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital has also
> conducted many such successful studies and the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital
> has conducted long term studies of the benefits of homeopathic treatment.
> All these homeopathic hospitals, including the London Homeopathic Hospital
> reportedly have at least 6 month waiting lists.
> 
> 
> 
> If anyone needed proof of the efficacy of homeopathic medicine, they need
> only study the statistics of various epidemics during the 1900s.  In 1854 a
> cholera epidemic struck London.  A report revealed that under allopathic
> care the mortality was 59.2% whereas under homeopathic care the mortality
> was only 9%.  In the yellow fever outbreak in the US in 1878, the mortality
> in New Orleans was 50% under allopathic care and 5.6% for homeopathic care.
> Records of three years of diphtheria in Broome County, New York from 1862
> to 1864, show the mortality rate for allopaths as 83.6% and 16.4% for
> homoepaths.
> 
> 
> 
> There are 220,000 homeopathic doctors in India and all over Europe,
> especially France and Germany, homeopathy is hugely popular.  The Queen,
> who is arguably the richest woman in the world, reportedly travels
> everywhere with a homeopathic first aid kit and often dispenses to staff.
> The kings and queens of Britain have always had their own personal
> homeopathic doctor and for the last two centuries the aristocracy has
> traditionally enjoyed the benefits of homeopathic medicine.  Many famous
> people, including MPs choose homeopathic treatment. Tony BlairÂ’s
> sister-in-law, Lyndsey Booth, changed careers from being a lawyer to
> becoming a qualified homeopath. Is it possible that all these people have
> been deluded into taking dummy pills, the effects of which are ‘all in the
> mindÂ’, in their imagination?!  Hardly.
> 
> 
> 
> What about animals and babies?  How does the placebo effect work on them?!
> As any homeopathic vet will tell you, homeopathic medicine works almost
> better on animals than on humans and likewise, babies respond particularly
> well to treatment.  Is it even possible to explain to them that the
> homeopathic remedy alleviated their symptoms, much less that the
> psychological effect of taking it brought about the cure?!
> 
> 
> 
> Hippocrates said there were two laws of cure – the law of opposites
> (orthodox medicine) and the law of similars (homeopathy).  In homeopathy, a
> small, highly potentised dose of a substance (that in a large dose would
> produce the patientÂ’s symptoms), works as a catalyst to stimulate the
> patientÂ’s own dormant healing power, setting it into motion to bring about
> cure.  During the process of creating a homeopathic medicine, the dilution
> alone would do nothing. It is the effect of the succussion (vigorous
> shaking) in combination with the dilution that causes the medicine to
> become highly potent in its action.
> 
> 
> 
> This Lancet study is probably just another skewed trial intent on bringing
> down homeopathy, akin to the kinds of trials we have to come to expect from
> a pharmaceutical industry that gave the green light to such medicines as
> thalidomide and Vioxx.
> 
> 
> 
> The fact of the matter is that homeopathy has enjoyed a huge rise in
> popularity for one simple reason and that is because it works.
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> Possibly the largest worldwide press coverage of homeopathy in one day!
> Please contact me at louise at zeusinfoservice.com if you canÂ’t get any of
> the articles up.
> 
> 
> 
> D-W World, Germany: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1692210,00.html
> 
> Arrive.Net, USA: http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/685773.html
> 
> Medpage
> Today:http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/AlternativeMedicine/tb/1609
> 
> The Scotsman: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1836902005
> 
> Gulf Times:
> http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=50040&vers
> ion=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
> 
> BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/4183916.stm
> 
> The Guardian, UK:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,1555248,00.html?gusrc=rss
> 
> The Daily Mail,
> UK:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehealthnews.html?
> in_article_id=360205&in_page_id=1797
> 
> The Courier Mail,
> Australia:http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,163
> 74714%5E401,00.html
> 
> Reuters:http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyI
> D=2005-08-24T110146Z_01_KNE439306_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-ROYAL.xml
> 
> New Zealand
> Herald:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10342648
> 
> Fox News, USA: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166947,00.html
> 
> Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa:
> http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__inte
> rnational_news/&articleid=249200
> 
> IOA, South Africa:
> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn200508271010458
> 68C276991
> 
> The Times of India: http://t
> imesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211449.cms
> 
> The Weekend Australian:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16397748%255E2
> 702,00.html
> 
> Herald & Times: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/45761.html
> 
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