Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?

[Losty]

I do not agree that homeopathy is actual medical practice...

[Losty]

Or acupuncture either

[Edwardo Piet]

Another name for non-western medical practice:

"Alternative medicine".

Alternative medicine is a:

...set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply...becomes medicine.

[...]There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work.

[Cyberman]

Homeopathy? Oh please.

Reality has left the building.

[Edwardo Piet]

[MentalGiant]

You do realize you aren't going to convince those of us who have benefited from alternative medicine when western medicine failed that westernized medicine is the only 'real' form of treatment right? Part of the 'problem' with many natural remedies not being recognized by mainstream medicine is no one will do the 'accepted' studies on them because there is no money to be made off them. You really can't patent an herb or extract of something that occurs naturally, which severely limits potential profits if you are a large drug companys. You can, however, put a patent on some chemical that doesn't occur anywhere in nature you've concocted in a lab somewhere. Which do you think a drug company is going to invest the $$$ for a full scale drug trial for- the herbal remedy they can't patent and *might* make a couple million off of at most (over a very long timescale) OR some pharmaceutical drug they can patent then jack up the price on until the patent expires while they rake in tens of billions from on a very short timescale?

[Edwardo Piet]

You do realize you aren't going to convince those of us who have benefited from alternative medicine when western medicine failed that westernized medicine is the only 'real' form of treatment right?

You do realize that whether you're convinced or not is irrelevant and you do realize that the Placebo Effect is a very real and very well documented phenomenon... right?

[Losty]

@MG I'm not trying to convince you

You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

[Edwardo Piet]

*inserts Sam Harris quote for the 3rd time*

Just visualize it at this point

Turtle PMed his kitten.

[MentalGiant]

And I do not have to wear an ostomy bag for the rest of my life because pharmaceutical drugs and the fucktards who called themselves 'doctors' failed to bring my condition under control while creating unbearable side effects in the process. Naturopathic medicine put my condition into long term remission without surgery. I do not really give a flying fuck whether it was the tinctures of some herbs and roots with 0 side effects or the placebo effect. At the end of the day, I did not have to have life altering surgery in the name of refusing something that wasn't backed by "double blind studies" and governmental bureaucracy.

I sincerely hope you are never faced with a situation where pharmaceutical drugs fail to help you since you are unwilling to open your mind to other options that have never undergone "properly controlled double blind studies"".