BigOl64 wrote on Aug 16
th, 2016 at 2:00pm:
Valkie wrote on Aug 16
th, 2016 at 1:47pm:
It seems that we, as consumers, take advice from doctors, who in turn take advice from drug companies who are in it to make money.
Every drug that has any effect on the body has side effects, not all are known.
But medicine has been around for centuries.
The Egyptians knew that placing a piece of moldy bread on a wound often prevented infection.
Honey, applied to a would also helps reduce infection.
Cloves help reduce tooth ache.
Many old wives tales are being revisited as some hold merit.
I'm not saying that naturopaths have all the answers, and I know doctors and chemist don't.
But some do work.
I have had acupuncture for my back and it worked wonders.
I have taken drugs to do the same with little or no effect, for years.
Judge by merit, if it works, use it. If it don't, stop.
But blindly saying that any one method is the only method is pure stupidity.
Good health starts at looking after your body.
Eating right and reducing the poisons we introduce into it.
Good natiropaths do not discount the needs of the body and the effects that the things we put in it have on it.
Good drugs, no matter how good, always have side effects and some are often worse that the desease.
Better to just eat right and exercise.
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What, the scientific method?
Just a quick read of your post added to the stupidity of the planet and it is attitudes like that, that leave children un-vaccinated.
Google and Youtube are not valid sources of scientific information
YES, We must accept that science is always right and knows it all.
That is why doctors wore beaks full of herbs to ward off the smell that caused the black plague.
That is why the great scientists of the past used blood letting as a cure for mental illness.
That is why the quacks today would rather give you pills than actually recommend a better lifestyle.
Some scientific facts that were found to be slightly wrong.
The world is Flat...............yeah that's rrrrrrrightttttttt.
Smoking is good for relaxation...............yep, and an early grave.
If you travel faster than 35 mph you will die.............We are all doomed, perhaps the RMA still believe this.
The use of electric shock, for all manner of illness.............BZZZZZZZZZ
Hysteria............the cure is quite interesting
I could go on.
Science is only as good as the scientists and the knowledge they have at their disposal.
And how do they get this knowledge, they learn and test.
Many witch doctors (as I'm sure you refer to natruopaths) have information gained from many years of real life testing.
In particular acupuncture, It has been used effectively for centuries.
OK it wont cure a heart condition or stuffed liver, but for many painful conditions that we are simply prescribed pain killers, it does work.
Discarding something just because you don't understand of believe it is, as you have stated (adding to the stupidity of the planet and it is attitudes)
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