blake murphy wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:01:46 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>
>> "Boron Elgar" wrote
>> ImStillMags wrote:
>>
>>>> Ever heard of homeopathy? The same applies for homeopathic
>>>> medicine, use only the glass dropper, never touch the medicine
>>>> with the hands, it changes the chemistry and energy of the
>>>> medicine.
>>>
>>> Homeopathy is a crock of shit....something else one should keep
>>> one's hands out of.
>>
>> Much of it is but not all of it. It's based on observation, just
>> like plant medicines.
>>
>> The terminology used in asian healing by 'eating the right food'
>> comes off as quackery but some of it is based in solidly testable
>> results. Like the chondritin/glucosamine pills and powders many now
>> take to help control arthritis. Back in Japan, our Japanese Doc
>> recommended I start also eating the shrimp tails and shells. They
>> are simply a natural source of the same thing and the pill form
>> wasnt working as well for me. Also, to use as many bone based deep
>> broths (and not so much the canned type but more of a consomme sort
>> you make at home that gels). Calcium and other bone strengthening
>> things in there, and less salt by far when you make it at home.
>
> none of that has anything to do with homeopathy:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy>
>
> some homeopathic doctors might recommend such, which keeps them from
> being total quacks. barely.


Hey, they laffed at Joseph Lister, too...!!!


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Greg