Homeopathy on the NHS
The most sensitive thing that you mustn’t criticise in this country is homeopathy.
But this government is actually allowing the use of this witchcraft (the BMA’s word not mine!) to increase in times of budget cuts according to the Daily Mail.
If fools want to be parted from their money, then it should be up to them to find their own quack, at their expense and not mine as a taxpaper.
The Anonymous Widower 
People in high places use homeopathy, that is probably why.
Acupunture, which works for many people as a method of pain control, as an antinauseant during treatments or pregnancy, as a mood elevator and relaxer for people with anxiety and depression and many more things beside, is hard to getr on NHS, and even then usually only six sessions. I am on very strong pain killers, and I suspect that weekly acupuncture would help me a lot, but NHS wont pay, and the cost of going privately is far more than I can afford.
Comment by Liz P | August 4, 2010 |
Ou mean the idiot, who talks to flowers!
Homeopathy can only work because of a placibo effect, as everything is diluted so much. Remember that natural remedies do sometimes work, and that drugs like Tamoxiofen and aspirin were originaly plant based.
I’ll agree with you about qacupuncture, as that did have a slight positive affect on my shoulder years ago. In the end that was sorted out by a fitness trainer, who puts the Judo players back together again. He just analysed all the movements and lack of it and then gave me a set of exercises. Then about three months later a piece of grisle was rejected out of my body under the armpit.
My cousin is a hypnotist and that can also be used.
But that is all about using the mind to control the body. One of my employees stopped smoking after one dose of hynotherapy. Have you tried that, Liz
Comment by AnonW | August 4, 2010 |
It isnt the one who talks to flowers, it is further up the hieracrchy, his mother never goes anywhere without her homeopathic pharmacy box apparently!
I havent tried hypnotherapy, and probably wouldnt, perhaps it works for people who smoke for instance, something I have never done. As part of the pain management, acceptance that the pain isnt going away etc etc I had some cognitive behavioural therapy, which I found useful, and generally transferable to normal life as well as pain.
As you say, many modern drugs come from plants, and often those plants have been being used for years, long before the drug companies started to take an interest. I have some very very old (1700s) medical books, and it is very interesting to read what they were using, and in many of the cases, you can see that the treatment would work!
Comment by Liz P | August 5, 2010 |