Question:
My first child was terribly croupy as a baby--to the extent that we once
wound up at the emergency room with him. We'd heard about homeopathic
remedies and it turns out there's a standard sequence for croup--aconite,
if that doesn't work spongia tosta, and if that doesn't work something
whose name I forget. So one day my wife calls our doctor because of another bad attack, and the
doctor hears the kid coughing over the phone and, after hanging up, says
to the nurse "that kid'll be in the emergency room again before this is
over." Instead my wife decided to try the homeopathics. Croup went away. From then on we used the homeopathic remedy for this, and it always
worked. The aconite never worked--it seems to be for calming people down,
and the kid didn't just need calming. The spongia tosta nearly always
worked. Sometimes we had to use the last remedy, and that did always work.So I'm ready to have an open mind on them. Maybe it's just a terrific way
to harness the placebo effect,but its uesful for us. Any one ideas?
Answer:
There is sometimes a lot of science behind alternative medicine that is
hidden. For example many people hev found that chinese herbs improved their
asthma and excema.
It was also found that some of the suppliers of these herbs were soaking
them in corticosteroids and allowing them to dry. So it was the western
medicine not the herbs which was responsible for the cure. Which is fine for herbal remedies, but the homeopathic stuff is true voodoo.
By the time they're done diluting it, they're dosing you with pure water. Which doesn't change the fact that I have found certain remedies to work other than
makes the cute little white pills in there
