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Medical Forum / General / Alternative / March 2007Herbal and homeopathic remedies for asthma
Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic remedies for asthma' Which says? 'There are lot of Herbal and homeopathic medicines for the treatment of asthma and they are extremely effective for the managing the asthma. But it's Depending on the severity of the asthma that which type of medicine is use for the cure and how much potency should it require have, these medicine can reduce or eliminate the need for the synthetic drugs and inhalers that persons are use generally for the fast management of the asthma . These herbal and homeopathic medicines are also safe in the use complement conventional treatment of asthma.' At: http://www.medical-health-care-information.com/encyclopedia/A/Asthma-management.asp While it must be true, I wonder what you have to say about it. Do let me know! Regards, Sherry > Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you > all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Regards, > Sherry 1) Why *must* it be true? 2) Herbs have actual active compounds in them, so I wouldn't rule out efficacy there. But I want to see the research (not anecdotes) that show efficacy. But homeopathy is utter bunk. It simply can not work. > > Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you > > all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > - Show quoted text - LOL! You never heard of the Placebo effect? Bound to work in the context of Homeopathy, maybe even other protocols...difficult to tell if placebo or homeopathic mixture did the job :) Chris >>>Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you >>>all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > LOL! You never heard of the Placebo effect? Well, that's not what's meant with 'it works' in medicine. A drug is said to 'work' if it does significantly better than a placebo. > Bound to work in the > context of Homeopathy, maybe even other protocols...difficult to tell > if placebo or homeopathic mixture did the job :) In some placebo controlled tests you see the homeopathic remedy do better (although not significantly) than the placebo. After all, you are comparing two placebos and one of the two is bound to do better than the other. > Chris >> Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you >> all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > efficacy there. But I want to see the research (not anecdotes) that show > efficacy. But homeopathy is utter bunk. It simply can not work. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstra ctPlus&list_uids=16905828&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstra ctPlus&list_uids=16376470&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstra ctPlus&list_uids=9419802&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstra ctPlus&list_uids=8315359&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum > Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you > all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > At: http://www.medical-health-care-information.com/encyclopedia/A/Asthma-management.asp > While it must be true, I wonder what you have to say about it. Do let > me know! > Regards, > Sherry How can you promote homeopathic medicines when there is nothing in them? Robert > Hi, this has been on my mind for sometime now, and I wanted to ask you > all a few questions. I have read an article at 'Herbal and homeopathic [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > At: http://www.medical-health-care-information.com/encyclopedia/A/Asthma-management.asp > While it must be true, I wonder what you have to say about it. Do let > me know! > Regards, > Sherry I suggest that you go to 3 web sites and do searches there 1 www.drweil.com and Weil has IMO a pretty balanced view of all types of medicine. Initially he did not sell any products on that web site but now he is doing it more and more. However, the bulk of information on the web site is not related to selling. See the following article: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/ART00306 which covers symptoms, causes, conventional treatments and his recommended therapies. 2 www.mayoclinic.com The Mayo clinic is leaning more and more towards accomodating Complementary and Alternative medicine. However, one gets a sense of doubt about the beliefs of the writers of some of the alternative medicine articles. There is though a definite moverment in the right direction. 3 www.nih.gov The National Institutes of Health also seems to be accepting alternative medicine. IMO these three are far preferable to the hundreds of other health-related web sites, most of which are selling products - I have very little confidence in them. Good luck in your quest. RF |
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