You'll feel better on...

[IQ popping]

Do you know what they call alternative medicines that actually have a theraputic benefit and work......








































Medicine...

[mellie]

Lol... true IQ, quite true.

[annielaurie]

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[mellie]

Sorry annie, no prizes for second best, you tried to suck up to me, because you know I know you are full of shit...I saw through it then you fell flat on your face demonstrating yourself to be the toxic troll that you are when you get caught out lying, when you began responding with your more Monk-like typical trolling. Save it for those more receptive, Yawnz.




Look, I am bored with the annie and Monk show now,(I think most of us are, and were a long time ago) so if you could kindly find a fire-hydrant to piss on and refrain from defecating/pissing across every forum thread you see me posting in i'd be truly grateful.

I have no interest in interacting with you any further, as you are a freaking fruit-cake.


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Now getting back to alternative/complimentary therapies....

[freediver]

Swisse.

Swisse had been ordered by the complaints resolution panel of the Therapeutic Goods Administration to withdraw their advertisements which suggest their products are "clinically proven" and "independently tested", and also taking aim at their "You'll feel better on Swisse" which the TGA found was not supported by evidence for many of their products.

Now the federal court has set aside the ruling, claiming Swisse was denied "natural justice" (what ever the fuck that means), ordered the TGA to pay Swisse's legal costs and opened the way for them to return to the air making frankly unsupported claims about the benefits of taking their overpriced candy.

It frustrates me to no end that the findings of the chief scientific medical authority in Australia, one that is supported by panels drawn from experts across the country, is trumped by a federal judge with no more than a high school level of scientific understanding.

http://www.news.com.au/business/breakin ... 6367322407" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Perhaps it was not a question of science.

[AiA in Atlanta]

"For her extended foreign tours, the Queen’s luggage can weigh more than four tons — and that includes 60 vials of homeopathic medicines, carried in a special leather case, without which she won’t travel anywhere.
She is a firm believer in alternative remedies, preferring them to conventional medicine."

No medicine or procedure is out of reach for QEII yet she prefers "alternative remedies." Hmmm ...

[annielaurie]

"For her extended foreign tours, the Queen’s luggage can weigh more than four tons — and that includes 60 vials of homeopathic medicines, carried in a special leather case, without which she won’t travel anywhere.
She is a firm believer in alternative remedies, preferring them to conventional medicine."

No medicine or procedure is out of reach for QEII yet she prefers "alternative remedies." Hmmm ...

Hi Atlanta, a lot of people, queen and commoners everywhere, swear by certain homeopathic remedies and herbal concoctions, and perhaps some of them do work for some people, some of the time. Or maybe there is a coincidence of apparent healing so that the person believes the remedy has worked.

But I like to think that modern medical science knows a thing or two about pharmaceuticals that have been tested extensively and have been clinically shown to work for ailments and diseases of all kinds.

I have my doubts about some of the homeopathics cures I have heard about. And I have known people personally who have gone on various regimens, only to discover to their dismay that their endrocrine and adrenal systems went out of kilter, and they got sicker than ever.

I knew one woman who actually died from a regimen of herbals, got blood poisoning from something and died a painful and horrible death in the hospital.

I knew another young woman who spent a couple of years and thousands of dollars seeing a homeopathic "doctor" who wasn't a real licensed doctor after all, and who had her on weird combinations of amino acids and adrenal "stabilizers" and found herself in agonizing pain with the shakes and her nervous system completely out of balance, and so mentally confused that she was at the point of suicide.

That person ended up spending her entire life savings paying for five of six stints in the hospital, three psychiatric wards on heavy tranquilizers and antidepressants to try to stabilize what the herbal remedies had done to her system, but which continued to make her even worse.

She had been in perfect health before she started seeing the homeopathic doctor, she had been urged to see him by her boyfriend, who raved about the benefits of that sort of treatment.

But she didn't need any treatment in the first place, she had been healthy. Last time I heard, she was homeless and broke, the boyfriend left her, and she had admitted herself to yet another psychiatric ward.

I would rather continue to stick to established medicine, tested by medical science, to stay as healthy as possible, and to avoid taking any meds or remedies that I really don't need.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Homeopathic doctors don't use herbal remedies or amino acids. She didn't see a homeopath.

[annielaurie]

Hmm, that's specifically what she told me, said he was a "certified" homeopathic with a PhD in Psychology and Pharmacology.

She said he did not have a medical degree but was certified to see clients who were interested in alternative medicine.

He would see clients (like my friend) and refer them to real doctors, with whom he was connected, who would then prescribe some expensive concoction for them to take on a specific regimen.

She said he was prescribing an amino acid regimen to be taken on a precise schedule overnight, that is in the middle of the night, plus pills that were supposed to "optimize" her adrenal system.

That was where she got into some real problems, started having horrible symptoms of the nervous system, adrenaline rushes and sweats and tight muscles and shakes.

She had been perfectly healthy before that. If that quack she was seeing wasn't a homeopath, then what do you think he was? I would be curious to know.

[annielaurie]

Or, maybe she said he was a naturopath?

But he referred her to licensed doctors who prescribed unusual compounds of ingredients, which were to be ingested as medicines.