Wed 31 Mar, 2010 04:02 am
The fundamental pillars of Homeopathy are: -
1. Law of similar (1796): Like cures like
Disease can be cured by a medicinal substance given in micro doses that produces similar symptoms in health people when given in large doses.
a. An onion is a substance which makes your eyes water and your nose burn. If you are having an attack of hay fever with watering eyes and a burning nose, a homeopathic remedy made from onion can relieve it.
b. Poison ivy causes redness, intense itching, burning, blistering and sometimes stiff muscles. Homeopathically it has been used for everything from herpes and burns to eczema and arthritis.
2. Law of minimum dose (1801): Less is More
Since the homoeopathic medicines act at a dynamic level, only a minute quantity of the medicine is administered which is enough/sufficient to stimulate and provides innate healing powers to bring about the necessary curative change in a patient, not more that that, that means no overdosing.
3. Law of simplex (1810): At any given time, only one remedy can be the exact similar to the presenting disease condition of the patient. So a single remedy (one remedy at a time) is given based upon their constitution/totality of the symptoms which includes physical, mental, and emotional aspects/symptoms. This results in individualization i.e. it may require different medicine for different people suffering from same disease
4. Theory of Miasms (1829): Miasms are nothing but what we call as ‘genetic predisposition’ now. The three miasms are psora, sycosis, syphilis
5. Doctorine of Vital Force (1833): Energy as Medicine
Life is a vital force that has its own inherent energy. These energies exist in balance and harmony in nature. But certain circumstances may lead to certain imbalances that may disturb the harmony between these energies. It is through this that homeopathic medicine believes will lead to diseases. Homeopathic remedies then aim to restore the balance of the vital force that is life.
6. Potentisation/dynamisation (1833): Potentisation is serial dilution and succussion/trituration of the drug to the point at which they would be therapeutic, but not toxic. This increases collative medicinal powers
Infinitesimally small dose of potentised medicine.
7. Hering’s law of five directions of cure (1845): Cure progresses from above downwards, from within outwards, ceter to periphery, from more important organ to less important one, in reverse order of coming of the symptoms
@Dr Nancy Malik,
Sounds like quackery to me.
@rosborne979,
Why dont large research medical colleges and teaching hospitals engage in homeopathic med icine?
Refer to ros' answer above.
A quote from a Wiki on the subject
Quote: Claims of homeopathy's efficacy beyond the placebo effect are unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical evidence.[7][8][9][10][11][12] While some studies have positive results, systematic reviews of all the published trials fail to conclusively demonstrate efficacy.[13][14][15][16][17] Furthermore, higher quality trials tend to report less positive results,[15][18] and most positive studies have not been replicated or show methodological problems that prevent them from being considered unambiguous evidence of homeopathy's efficacy.[7][10][19][20] An inquiry into the evidence base for homeopathy conducted by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in 2009-2010 concluded that homeopathy does not work better than placebo. They consider it "a placebo treatment", and state that it is "bad medicine" to prescribe pure placebos
It is interesting that none of these "laws" was formulated any more recently than 1845. News flash for the credulous. A great deal of medical research has been undertaken, to the value of all mankind, in the last 165 years. In fact, more valuable research has been undertaken in that period of time than in the entire prior history of humanity.
For those contemplating the patronization of homeopaths, or the purveyors of their nostrums . . . a fool and his money . . .
Dawkins did a cute peice on the micro-quantity medicine thing. Got the homeopatheticist to admit that there was a greater quantity of recycled human urine in the "medicine" than the "active" ingredient.
I'll admit it sounds brilliant though. You can dilute your stock of the medicine an infinite number of times, and in doing so it just gets MORE effective.
I think this trick could only possibly work in 2010 due to the fact that nobody could possibly get away with it these days, so it must be legit.
@Eorl,
What is really hilarious to me is that after adding these minuscule amounts of the "medicine," they then put them in a bag, and physically pound them. I saw a film of it once, i busted a gut.
@Setanta,
What you do for a busted gut is take a gut from a sheep or cow, dry it, pound it with a hammer, and pop a pinch into your beer once a day.
This sounds like a vocabulary in search of a subject. Its a lot like Evangelical religious dogma, its virtual double-talk.
@Dr Nancy Malik,
Thank you very much for the lecture.
@Linkat,
Linkat wrote:
Thank you very much for the lecture.
But Dr. Nancy has a picture of a stethoscope in her avatar, and a lab coat, and there's a "DR" in front of her name. She must know what she's talking about.
@rosborne979,
They way I read it, Dr. Nancy is not a fan of Homeopathy.
I think the post is designed to point out how absurd the principles of Homeopathy are.
@DrewDad,
This is from her web-site:
Quote:A leading credentialed Medical Professional, a specialist with a national clientele and a practice spanning over six years in the medical health care industry. She is a popular name among the Homeopathic Fraternity mainly due to the impossible and challenging cases she treats. She has been applauded and acknowledged for her devotion to the profession and hard work.
She is having extensive education, specialized degree and training. She is Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) (a regular full-time 5.5 years of medical degree course) from prestigious ‘Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital’, Chandigarh in Jan 2003. She has a rich clinical experience as a House Physician under Dr. Castro (an internationally renowned homoeopath from Chandigarh). She has attended many CME programmes and seminars. She has assist occupational therapist with a rehabilitative therapy for acute and chronic injuries.
She is a senior homeopath and has wide experience of treating large variety of medical disorders, both acute and chronic. She is skilled in developing and administering master treatment plans. Her patient care emphasis is on prevention and empowerment through lifestyle modification and self-care. Her patients recognize her as a tolerant listener and compassionate physician.
@DrewDad,
DrewDad wrote:
They way I read it, Dr. Nancy is not a fan of Homeopathy.
I think the post is designed to point out how absurd the principles of Homeopathy are.
Dr. Nancy Malik is a leading Gurgaon-based credentialed Medical Professional, a specialist with a national clientele and a practice spanning over five years in the health care industry. She is a Homoeopathic Physician with extensive education, specialized degree and training. She is Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) (a 5.5 years of graduation course) from Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh in Jan 2003, and has worked there in the capacity of Medical Officer. She has a rich clinical experience as a House Physician under Dr. Castro (an internationally renowned homoeopath from Chandigarh). She is a Visiting Doctor to Institute of Technology & Management, Gurgaon, a counselor at SitaGita.com, and an Expert on SafeCure.net, and JustAnswers.com. She has attended many CME programmes and seminars. She renders service to the poor by organising medical camps through Helping hand trust, a non-governmental voluntary organization working at grass root level in the field of Health. She has assist occupational therapist with a rehabilitative therapy for acute and chronic injuries.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/member/6204/
@dyslexia,
Her very first post at A2K was in response to your own thread on homeopathy:
http://able2know.org/topic/142997-1#post-3949355
The web site for the college she lists in her bio seems to be owned by a clothing shop now. There is no direct web site for this particular college.
However, here's an intro for the R.V. Homeopathic Medical College at
http://www.rvhmch.org/abouthomoeopathy.htm :
Sounds great, huh?
@rosborne979,
And you know that the person who started this thread is the real Dr. Nancy because....?
google Nancy Malik + quack
some fun reading
@DrewDad,
I think it is dyslexia using a new A2K account.
@ehBeth,
not sure Roberta is interested.
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