: We don't know what homeopathy really is.
*You* may not know what homeopathy really is, but most of the rest of us
have a fairly clear idea.
: Physically it might be the equivalent to zero, but there is something else
: that makes it work.
Namely, the overactive imaginations of the people who think that it works.
: I tend to think that it is something to do with creating an etheric field.
Your opinion has been noted and given all of the consideration that it is
worth.
: If you get into some vedic types of diagnoses, they explain that every
: living thing has an etheric field around it, some say a few different layers
: of etheric fields.
Why can they not tell how many layers of "etheric fields" there are?
: The way the homeopathic preparations are made involves shaking the solution,
: which some say separates the physical from the etheric, but beyond that I
: don't know any more.
How do you know which part is the physical and which part is the etheric?
Maybe the part that you are diluting to zero is the etheric part?
:> :> : However, I take calcium as calcium carbonate, potassium as cream of
:> :> : tartar, bicarb for sodium phosphate and sulphate.
:> :> You do realize that by taking the "cellsalts" in that form, you are not
:> :> getting any sulfate, chloride, fluoride, or phosphate?
:> : Yes, I realise that but it seems to work anyway.
:> Do you really not realize that you have just refuted your entire
:> "cellsalt" hypothesis?
: Have I really?
According to the "cellsalt" hypothesis, there are 12 fundamental salts,
which include chlorides, a fluoride, phosphates, and sulfates, and that
all 12 of these salts are required for human health. You state that on
the one hand you do not ingest any chlorides, fluorides, phosphates, or
sulfates, and yet you are in good health. Do you honestly not see the
contradiction between those two sentences? According to the cellsalt
hypothesis, you should be very ill indeed, since you are not ingesting
any of the proper anions.
: All I know is that it seems to work for me.
"Seems" being the operative word.
: Doesn't calcium carbonate supply all calcium needs?
: I used to take chelated potassium tablets and now find that cream of tartar
: works just as well and is a lot cheaper.
: Also that bicarb works as well as some sodium tablets I used to take which
: were quite expensive.
But according to your cellsalt hypothesis, it is not sufficient to ingest
the metals found in the cellsalts -- you need the whole cellsalt.
:> : I took the cellsalts as recommended for years then experimented with
:> : taking them in this current form, and they still work. Can't explain
:> : it though.
:> The explanation is simple enough to anyone capable of rational thought.
: Its nothing to do with rational thought, its chemical knowledge -- two
: different things.
Since you admit that you have no chemical knowledge, and my Ph. D. in
chemistry hints that I might have at least a little bit, I'd say that
your ability to judge whether "chemical knowledge" can explain why your
supplements "seem" to work is probably a good deal less than mine.
:> :> : Sodium chloride only seems to work as a homeopathic tablet -
:> :> Why does it not work as table salt?
:> : I'd love to know why table salt doesn't work. . . . Maybe its
:> : in the wrong form.
:> How many "forms" do you think sodium chloride has once it has been
:> dissolved in water?
: I don't know.
The answer is "one." Now you know.
: Do iron filings dissolved in water fix an iron deficiency?
Sodium chloride is sodium chloride whether it is in solid form or in solution.
Iron filings are elemental iron [Fe(0)], while iron as found in the body
is in a higher oxidation state -- "bioavailable" iron in the environment
is normally present as ferric ion [Fe(III)]; after incorporation into
biological molecules, the ferric ion can be reduced to the ferrous ion
[Fe(II)]; in some biological molecules (e.g. Cytochrome P450), iron can
exist (at least transiently) in higher oxidation states -- IIRC, there is
at least one biological process that seems to go via Fe(V). I really
fail to understand how you think that parading your ignorance of basic
chemistry is going to win you converts, unless you are underneath it all
a far more cynical person than your posts would seem to indicate.
:> :> : I don't know what a cellsalt is, and didn't invent the theory which
:> :> : was invented by Dr Schuessler in the 1800s.
:> :> And which theory has subsequently shown to have been wrong.
:> : Who says that the theory is wrong?
:> Anyone who knows anything at all about what inorganic elements
:> actually do in the body.
: Like I say, I use cellsalts and don't theorise about how they work.
I will grant you that unlike some other anti-rationalists here, you at
least admit that you have no desire to be confused by the facts.
:> :> : Yes, you're right that my background of chemistry is abysmal, its
:> :> : non-existant actually. I work on the basis of trying things to see if
:> :> : they work.
:> :> So have you tried therapies based on actually proven theories to see
:> :> if *they* work?
:> : Such as?
:> Such as, for instance, soap and water to eliminate body odor?
: There's no doubt that a shower with some soap goes a long way towards
: removing body odours. However, in some people these odours can come back
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: I don't and very rarely get underarm odour even on really hot days when I'm
: sweating like a pig.
And what evidence do you have that your rarely getting underarm odor
has anything to do with your taking "homeopathic" silica?
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Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"I love people. But I don't suffer fools gladly."
-- Deborah Lipstadt
Carole - 10 Jan 2008 19:04 GMT
> : We don't know what homeopathy really is.
>
> *You* may not know what homeopathy really is, but most of the rest of us
> have a fairly clear idea.
I wouldn't think so.
You are complacent in your world and think that science is working for you.
Unfortunately science has been hijacked by vested interests and now teaches
some sort of watered down version fit for public consumption while the real
science is safely kept under lock and key.
See www.einsteinconspiracy.co.uk
"I have researched Relativity theory and written a book called The
Relationship between light and gravity volume 1 available from Amazon. The
book deals with my maths investigation of orthodox physics, this website
goes beyond the book. There is now no need to look at the maths of orthodox
physics to show it to be wrong, because its history can be show to be a
myth."
> : Physically it might be the equivalent to zero, but there is something else
> : that makes it work.
>
> Namely, the overactive imaginations of the people who think that it works.
Yes, the powers that be put great stock in the placebo theory to get rid of
annoying success stories that aren't attributed to pharmaceutical drugs.
There are studies to show homeopathy works. Check out the following
http://www.earthsremedy.com/scientificevidence.htm
http://www.earthsremedy.com/clinicalevidence.htm
http://www.earthsremedy.com/clinicalstudies.htm
http://www.earthsremedy.com/researchinhomeopathy.htm
Also
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/articlesfromorgs/homeopathy_scientific_res
earch.htm
> : I tend to think that it is something to do with creating an etheric field.
>
> Your opinion has been noted and given all of the consideration that it is
> worth.
Life IS more than than the mere physical.
There are such things as auras and electromagnetic fields and vibrational
medicine.
> : If you get into some vedic types of diagnoses, they explain that every
> : living thing has an etheric field around it, some say a few different layers
> : of etheric fields.
>
> Why can they not tell how many layers of "etheric fields" there are?
I think its 7 from memory. I'd have to do some research on that one.
Its called suppressed knowledge -- there is suppressed knowledge in every
field of human endeavour. So you're not as cutting edge as you might like to
think.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE? 150 Years of Hidden Knowledge
by Christopher Bird 1991 (Nexus Magazine April 1992)
http://www.whale.to/p/bird.html
Carole
www.cellsalts.net
> : The way the homeopathic preparations are made involves shaking the solution,
> : which some say separates the physical from the etheric, but beyond that I
> : don't know any more.
>
> How do you know which part is the physical and which part is the etheric?
> Maybe the part that you are diluting to zero is the etheric part?
> :> :> : However, I take calcium as calcium carbonate, potassium as cream of
> :> :> : tartar, bicarb for sodium phosphate and sulphate.
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> "I love people. But I don't suffer fools gladly."
> -- Deborah Lipstadt