What are your thoughts on, or experiences with it? Does it have merits over heavily-processed drugs?
Is it just placebo effect? And if it is, is that so bad if it does the job?
@Scarlett
I was cured of a painful bout of gall stones by a Chinese herbalist, while my doctor was still trying to set up an appointment with a specialist.
I’ve experienced firsthand the pain relieving properties of Belladonna extract. My doctor said heavy pain pills were contraindicated for the condition I had and said I would just have to wait it out. In desperation I went to see a homeopath who could see I was in obvious pain. Just 10 minutes later, I was not.
Where the line is between medicinal effect and placebo effect is actively debated. But one cannot argue with results. Especially when they happen without heavily processed Pharmaceuticals, and their accompanying side effects.
The Shaman I once knew told a story of how his teacher once cured a comatose woman who had been sent home to die, with nothing more than a glass of Municipal tap water.
She was a strong believer in Native healing, but wasn’t conscious for any placebo effect to work.
Her husband was a renowned skeptic of such things, but had summoned the Shaman his wife had such faith in as a last desperate resort.
When his apprentice later asked how she had been restored by tap water placed on her lips, his teacher smiled and said that he had not healed her nor had the water. The skeptical husband had. His energies were still very intimately intertwined with hers, even with her close to death.
The simple water gave even his atrophied faith and hope something to focus intently on.
And the Shaman’s presence gave him “permission” to do something he was adamantly convinced he could not do.
My thoughts are that I appreciate the natural approach for its specific end goal of treating the whole (body and person) by trying to resolve the root of the problem, versus the practical medical approach of treating the symptoms.
There are positives to both and negatives as well. I use practical medical to manage my diabetes. I use it because it is a proven approach that works. If it ain’t broke… . I have considered homeopathic, but I have never really been serious about drilling in because people associated with supplying advice can be really passionate about it, but seem to be ok with a hit or miss approach. Like a mechanic who says, “this might fix the problem and if that doesn’t do the trick, we can try…”)
I’d prefer to use a more natural approach, but I can’t help but feel there is a snake oil approach that borders on irrational. Chinese medicine leans on the more natural approach and it has centuries of experience over western approaches and I think their objectives are to cure, rather than make money…and let’s face it, there is a country with a billion people, who seem to age longer than their western counterparts.
If I made the time to drill in, I’m sure I would prefer the holistic approach, but I don’t put the priority on my health like I should. My priorities are the result of what our society has dictated and when it comes to medicine I take the easy route of following the herd. Not proud of that.
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my only experience is taking mag-phis for sleep/ it really works! I do have to self just the dose.
@Scarlett
I was cured of a painful bout of gall stones by a Chinese herbalist, while my doctor was still trying to set up an appointment with a specialist.
I’ve experienced firsthand the pain relieving properties of Belladonna extract. My doctor said heavy pain pills were contraindicated for the condition I had and said I would just have to wait it out. In desperation I went to see a homeopath who could see I was in obvious pain. Just 10 minutes later, I was not.
Where the line is between medicinal effect and placebo effect is actively debated. But one cannot argue with results. Especially when they happen without heavily processed Pharmaceuticals, and their accompanying side effects.
The Shaman I once knew told a story of how his teacher once cured a comatose woman who had been sent home to die, with nothing more than a glass of Municipal tap water.
She was a strong believer in Native healing, but wasn’t conscious for any placebo effect to work.
Her husband was a renowned skeptic of such things, but had summoned the Shaman his wife had such faith in as a last desperate resort.
When his apprentice later asked how she had been restored by tap water placed on her lips, his teacher smiled and said that he had not healed her nor had the water. The skeptical husband had. His energies were still very intimately intertwined with hers, even with her close to death.
The simple water gave even his atrophied faith and hope something to focus intently on.
And the Shaman’s presence gave him “permission” to do something he was adamantly convinced he could not do.
Interesting stuff!
My thoughts are that I appreciate the natural approach for its specific end goal of treating the whole (body and person) by trying to resolve the root of the problem, versus the practical medical approach of treating the symptoms.
There are positives to both and negatives as well. I use practical medical to manage my diabetes. I use it because it is a proven approach that works. If it ain’t broke… . I have considered homeopathic, but I have never really been serious about drilling in because people associated with supplying advice can be really passionate about it, but seem to be ok with a hit or miss approach. Like a mechanic who says, “this might fix the problem and if that doesn’t do the trick, we can try…”)
I’d prefer to use a more natural approach, but I can’t help but feel there is a snake oil approach that borders on irrational. Chinese medicine leans on the more natural approach and it has centuries of experience over western approaches and I think their objectives are to cure, rather than make money…and let’s face it, there is a country with a billion people, who seem to age longer than their western counterparts.
If I made the time to drill in, I’m sure I would prefer the holistic approach, but I don’t put the priority on my health like I should. My priorities are the result of what our society has dictated and when it comes to medicine I take the easy route of following the herd. Not proud of that.
WOODY HARRELSON IS A TRAITOR!!!!!