about christians and conventional medicine?
October 14, 2010 by Herbals Medicines
Filed under conventional medicine
I just read an article about homeopathy being a form of “new age magic” our family has practiced homeopathy for years…and most of us are christians….I still see a doc for tests..and emergencies we cant control…but mostly we use alternative therapies….
Since people are up in arms about christians letting thier kids die for refusing medical treatment, do you think that homeopathy is a viable option to these people?
Our practice is to use nature, until nature wont work, then use conventional.
oh and do you think it is “magic”
Note: I am not a “normal” christian.
JS: there are HUGE risks in conventional medicine as well.
JS: it would be easier to email you the links later..if you would like..along with a list of studies and books…every single medication has a known side affect, and a hundred that they dont list…vaccinations are the same..tests all have risks…you are asking me to open pandoras box up and flood your email with 20 years of research….and if it is just to prove me wrong..I dont have the time..If you are genuinely interested in learning..then, sure I have all the time in the world
One of the real problems with that idea is cancer. Early detection AND TREATMENT saves lives. Home medicine can mask symptoms until it’s too late.
It’s not magic, but it is bad science.
I don’t think that homeopathy is “magic”. And I don’t particularly have a problem with it, if you’d rather use home remedies for headaches or skinned knees or minor burns. But you shouldn’t ignore important things, like yearly physicals, because of homeopathic medicine.
ignoring conventional medicine for homeopathic is just as idiotic as ignoring it for prayer
my great grand pa was a medicine man and the people who seen him said it was magic. he didn’t he just knew what the plants did to make people better. we would say no its not magic its knowledge.
“Alternative medicine” is treatment that has no proven ability to work. When (and if….) it is proven to work, it becomes “medicine.”
ETA: Medications have side effects because they actually have an effect on the body!
Grumble grumble. Why do we bother…
Not a single controlled trial has shown that homeopathy works (beyond the placebo effect).
I don’t think you know what homeopathy is. They dilute a substance until none of it remains while shaking and sell it to you.
There is no biochemical mode of action. There are no measured effects greater than the placebo. It is quite literally bunk.
>95% of alternative medicine is useless. A few herbal remedies actually work, but are still less effective than conventional medicine.
conventional med is natural…the chemo is perhaps too powerful, but it;s a mix of what nature produces..we must get better at it, not pretend it’s evil…the fear of homeopathy being ‘new age’ is limited to hoping that it’s products ‘sync’ their vibrations with those of the patient so that the ‘life force’ is in harmony…do you believe God is just a force? if so, you’re not a Christian…if not , then don’t worry about those who do, and use whatever helps you get better….either way, be well…
Homeopathic remedies have no proven scientific testing. They have no regulation. They can put just about anything that they want to in that stuff and call it homeopathic. Not only is it potentially harmful to forgo real medical treatment in lieu of this stuff, but it is potentially dangerous. Homeopathy isn’t “natural” it is just silly.
Most of conventional medicine comes from “nature.” Where exactly do you think they come up with things like penicillin?
It is not “magic,” it is pretty much silly. These remedies are diluted so severely that there is essentially 0 particles of the original ingredient left. It is supposed to work because the “vibrations” of whatever the substance they are using are still in the solution. There is a particular homeopathic remedy that uses the liver of some animal. If you took the liver of one single animal, and divided it up as homeopathic remedies demands, you would have enough product to fill a sphere that is larger than the earth!
Since you want to highlight the contrast, shouldn’t you be using the proper term ‘allopathic medicine’ instead of ‘conventional’?
Homeopathy still has a long way to go. It works for some things, it doesn’t work for others. And with the pitiful canon of research behind it, it’s essentially operating on a case-by-case basis. Granted, it doesn’t have the side effects that an allopathic drug might have, but on the other hand it may not make a difference, AND waste precious time.
Generally, instead of ‘alternative’, I prefer the term ‘complementary’ medicine. Physicians and healers should work together in order to address both symptoms and underlying cause with maximal speed and efficiency.
In my opinion, I think most homeopathic treatments are bunk.
The idea that “like treats like” is crazy to me. If this substance causes an illness, then how does taking more of it cure it? Especially if you dilute it with water, alcohol, etc. until there is so little of whatever active ingredient you started with left that you can’t detect it?
And then homeopathic treatments are seldom tested for effectiveness. Ask your provider for evidence that the stuff has gone through clinical, double-blind trials. Ask who has repeated the trials to independently verify the claims, and to check for side effects, and how many independent trials were done. Ask how the compounds are prepared, what labs did it, and what steps are taken to prevent contamination. Ask what sources are used for the base components, to be sure that you are getting a high quality product.
I don’t think that this is magic. I think at best it’s a placebo effect, or that the illness runs its course, but you think that the homeopathic remedy (I won’t call it medicine) has helped even though you haven’t shortened the duration of the cold or fever or whatever you’re trying to treat.
Oh, and I don’t see what your religious beliefs have to do with it, either. Lots of medical professionals are committed believers. Lots of priests and ministers go to MDs and DOs, too.
Edit: I found this book while looking for something else, and thought it would be interesting to you.
We also use homeopathic methods, herbs and hydrotherapy. We do use a doctor when we can not diagnose something for ourselves, otherwise, we stay clear of them. We do not vaccinate either! Let me give you an example of how it works. One day I got very sick; sweats, vomiting, heart palpitations; I thought that I might be having a heart attack, but not all of the symptoms were there. So, off to the doctor we went, and after being checked out, we were told that I had a very bad case of Gall stones! What a relief! Any how, he wanted me to have surgery, but I respectfully said “No think you, now that I know what is wrong with me I can fix it myself.” He thought I was nuts! The gall stones are gone (it took three weeks) and I still have my gall bladder (which is working as it should again).