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Homeopathy keeps people away from Criticisms levelled at homeopathy seem more CONTROVERSY
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medical doctors. often than not to be based on emotion rather The facts would indicate that this, in many cir- than logic, and the types of criticisms made and
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cumstances, may not be such a bad idea. In the US, doctors are the third leading cause of death, with iatrogenic (medically induced) dis- ease accounting for 250,000 deaths every year (I2,000 from unnecessary surgery, 7,000 from medication errors in hospitals, 20,000 from other errors in hospitals, 80,000 from infec- tions in hospitals, 106,000 from the negative effects of drugs)26.
Homeopathy is expensive.
This is rarely the case. US doctors who used homeopathy were found to use less diagnostic testing and conventional medicines, resulting in a significant reduction in their impact on the cost of public health27. Patients using homeop- athy cost the French government half of what it cost for patients who used orthodox treat- ments28 . French researchers have noted that the number of paid sick leave days taken by patients under the care of homeopathic physi- cians was 3.5 times less than patients under the care of medical practitioners29 . UK doctors using homeopathy cost the government 12% less than UK doctors who do not use homoeopathy. In Germany researchers found that homeopathic care for infertility was 30 times less expensive per successful delivery than orthodox medical care.
the way they’re articulated, would tend to indi- cate that orthodox medicine has great difficulty in accepting anything outside of itself, regard- less of the evidence. If one looks at it objective- ly, and when in possession of the facts, the criticisms of homeopathy can be shown to be largely baseless.
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Daisy the Hen by Edward De Beukelaer, UK. (Article courtesy of Hpathy Ezine)
Daisy is a young, happy, laying hen, who lives as part of a group of three in the perfect chick- en run which is kept very clean. She is loved and fed all the best organic food in the world. One day I received a call stating that Daisy had been unwell since the day before and the local vet had prescribed Baytril and gave a poor prognosis, for what is most likely a case of egg- bound with rupture of the oviduct and peritoni- tis. Obviously she is ruffled up and she does not do much, tries to eat a little and has a swollen abdomen. The clinical signs I get are those you would normally associate with a chicken with peritonitis and which is likely to die soon.
I ask: what strikes you about Rosie? ‘She is fiercely red around her anus and passes no stool just a little bit of white mucus (= urine)’.
The only remedy at Redness of the anus is: Medorrhinum. She receives the remedy in 200 six times in 36 hours and she starts eating again and behaving more normally by the time of the last dose.
I see her the day after the last dose. She is still a little bit red below her cloaca and the abdominal wall feels thick and soft. The abdomen is only a little swollen; she is not quite right yet.
I am told that she always was the last to lay her eggs and often struggled (pain?) to pass them. While the two other chickens will happily fly on the owner’s back when she cleans out the pen, Daisy always stayed more in the background.
I felt that the Medhorrhinum had done fan- tastically well but there was something missing, and I did feel another remedy may need to be found. I made a basic repertorisation, which gave the following:
• Female genitalia, delivery during slow
• Mind reserved
Bell, ign, nat-m, sec, tritic-v: are covered by the two symptoms.
Natrum mur appeals very much to me and she receives a 30C twice per week to try and nurse her back to full health.
Five days later, things don’t go well. I advise to go back to Medorrhinum and Daisy picks up straight away. She will receive another three doses over the following month every time when she appears to be dropping off a bit. In the mean time she sheds most of her feathers and grows a perfectly new set.
When I see her again nearly two months after the initial episode, she looks like a perfect- ly normal hen again, but had been unwell that
morning. By the time she arrived in the surgery and we took her out of the box, we found two old shrivelled egg yolks on the floor of the box and daisy was her usual self again. She was given another dose of Med. 200 and went back to normally laying eggs again. She is still Daisy and still reserved though.
Lesson learned: Don’t give up on a remedy that helps the patient until it has stopped helping.
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