Since 2000 I have been very convincing about the western medical community and medicine miracles, but when I lost a close relative of mine by an unknown-unidentified caused fever I lost every trust I had on western medicine. So I started first by using homeopathy for me and my wife. After a strong psychological shock my wife developted diabetes type 2. We visited our homeopathy doctor who privided us with the correct medicine for her. At that time we had some friends who realy don't believe in homeopathy and insisted us to visit a "classic doctor" in order to take the "correct" prescription of drugs. We did that as an experiment and while we were talking with the doctor, he almost started laughing when we described to him that we are under homeopathy thretment. He sayed that it is a placebo effect and it doesn't work but we will see after farther blood exams... I can't describe the doctor's face after a couple of days when he called us to his office announcing that the glucose levels where adjusted!!! . That's a very small example of homeopathy. Its not my intention to argue if homeopathy is good or not. If a small homeopathic pill adjust my diabetes or adjust the period cycle or acts as antibiotic medicine and do it well, give me a good reason to use a chemical substitute that has so many side effects. Even if I accept that it is a placebo who cares if the final result is a healthy human being?
What did the homeopath actually give you? Are you sure it wasn't actually something active like a herb? I know certain herbs in the ginseng family can have a balancing effect on blood sugar levels.
Quite often people mistake homeopathy for all "natural" remedies.
I'm sorry to hear about your relative, without knowing the context I can't comment on their case in particular, but what I can say is that medicine is sadly not perfect - but science-backed medicine at least works. Homeopathy simply does not work, this has been proven time and time again in studies and if you look at the underlying principles there's no way it COULD work.
You're right that in the end it doesn't matter if it's placebo if it still results in good health, but sadly there are many conditions which placebo alone is insufficient for, and you're also forgetting that real medicine also has the placebo effect in addition to the biological effects.
Well its been a long time and I don't remember the name of the homeopath pill we got. It was a homeopathic pill and not something like natural remedies. I know personally classic doctors, surgeons who use homeopathy for their family as a main way of treatment. I am sure that they are not crazy to put their family in any danger. From what they have told me, there kids was half days away from school for medical reasons compared to the other kids in class. What I have learned from the "alternative" medicine is that if you practice it from your early years you have less chances to get sick in your later years. Here I have to notice also that there is a big difference on how homeopathy treatment or any alternative treatment served in each country. I know for example - and please correct me if I am wrong- that in the States, homeopathy pills sold in Supermarkets like a natural remedy!!! That is forbidden in my country Greece, for example. Again, it's not my intention to compare what is right and what is wrong. I believe that everyone has the right to follow any path he feels safe for his life. For me the main problem of the health system is the corruption of people who deal with it.
Homeopathy is not dangerous in any way (except where it might make people fail to seek proper treatment) and it "works" fine for mild conditions due to the placebo effect.
Suffice to say, i'm deeply skeptical of your story and would love to see the raw data (the actual name of the pill you were given and a chemical analysis to confirm it is homeopathic and not something active).
I hope this doesn't come across as insulting as I understand you truly believe the homeopathic remedy worked for you, but there's a reason we don't base medical decisions on single anecdotes and instead use proper double-blinded studies to determine what works and what doesn't.
The term "alternative medicine" is a bit of a catchall, but a lot of it is, like homeopathy, just plain quackery. Some people classify things like all dietary supplements and herbal remedies as part of "alternative medicine", despite such things having actual biological effects. Since it's such a catchall, you can't really make blanket statements about it.
It's clear for example that the rational use of dietary supplements is good for your health, and some herbal remedies are effective too, so if you class that as "alternative medicine" your statement would be right for at least that aspect of it.
Where it comes to the rest of "alternative medicine" though, we have a wide range of different practices, some of which are at least plausibly effective and some of which are downright insane and dangerous.
There is no insulting at all. It is always a pleasure to share ideas. And I agree that we don't base medical decisions on single anecdotes I honestly don't remember the pill, I asked my wife twice since you mentioned it. I am just sharing what I have witnessed all these years. We share ideas and I am not trying to convince anyone to follow the same path I did. The fact that I lost my trust on classic medicine doesn't mean that I contempt all classic medicine. That would be totally insane. In general, i believe that any type of medicine can become dangerous without a proper diagnosis of the problem.
I came here to ask you about Tensorflow but I'd appreciate if you would actually post stuff you know something about.
There are of course studies incl. double random placebo controlled trials (which are the most rigorous?) that prove homeopathy works but you have to look for them. IIRC it was in a talk from the Truth about Cancer.
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/what-is-homeopathy/
Can you show me these studies?
Yep I wish. I had grabbed a gazillion TIFF screenshots with MacOS/Grab untill memory was full haha, I think I have deleted some time ago, before I was on Steem. But it was in the Lancet, there was even a year, check your replies.