Australia: Call For Homeopathy Rules

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That's the problem with homeopathic cures. If they were at all effective, they'd be perscribed by MDs. All the effective ones have been brought into the realm of modern pharmacuticals. Even Marijuana has a pharmacutical use in the form of Marinol, which is used as an apetite stimulant.


It's true! Chewing the bark of an oak tree, or whatever, will help prevent a heart attack, so guess what? We made aspirin out of it.

Sorry to be a noodge. I can't quite follow your post. Are you saying there are effective homeopathic remedies? If so, please name one.

Or do you perhaps mean naturopathic?

A great many "natural remedies" work including: Willow bark,from which we get aspirin,foxglove (heart) quinine (malaria) valerian (sedative) St John's Wort (depression) and even mint,which is good for stomach upsets; Penny royal,a type of mint has been used as an abortificant. Another type, bergamot, is used in Early Grey tea, and of course spearmint,to flavour chewing gum.---- There are hundreds of traditional natural medicines which are either still used or have been synthesised into modern drugs..

It's actually not known if mainstream medicine is already using the best,nor does anyone have any idea what natural remedies are yet to be discovered.

Traditional western medicine has been more deductive than empirical,which is one reason there were so many wrong ideas for so long,(EG before germ theory,there was "miasma")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory_of_disease


Doctors still use deduction to form a diagnosis more than any other tool. Doctors still make a LOT of mistakes ,which they're often still able to bury.---and even the very best hospitals remain very unhealthy places to be.


Queen Victoria took dope for menstrual pain .Today it continues to be used for chronic pain and in the treatment of glaucoma amongst other things.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis