I would say alt. medicine has been studied far more than modern medicine. Modern medicine started being used at about 1800, arguably so. The earliest date I can find of medicine being practiced is 3300 BC. That means from 3300 BC to 1800 (5,100 years) alt. medicine was used and studied actively. Compared to our measly 212 years, alt. medicine has a good 4,888 years on modern medicine. Also, I'm not quite sure if you were being sarcastic but the government makes far more money off of healthy people.
i didn't mean studied in that sense, i was referring to clinical trials, tests, and all the stuff FDA needs to approve something like that.
1) acupuncture is based around bullstuff, and technically even though it itself is not an active ingredient essentially you being stabbed a million times causes a huge release of endorphins in your brain, so even though it in itself is not an active ingredient it utilizes an active ingredient.
are you implying that endorphins that the brain produces are active ingredients, and that some drugs do not react well with said active ingredient? i don't wanna take a drug that conflicts with an endorphin. that's like taking a drug that reacts adversely to my blood!
2) Deemed ineffective because people weren't getting better. See: last point for testing.
what? after one treatment? that's hardly enough time to try to get a reaction. i've read some of the trials and that was the main problem i saw.
3) I'm saying that if a doctor goes "Hmm, it looks like you might have cancer in your pusillanimous individual!" and she hadn't gone "Herbal time!" she might not have gotten to a point where they needed to perform surgery.
it obviously wasn't a situation where they 'needed' to perform surgery, as in, an emergency. i mean, that's not how i understood it. besides that, what difference does it make if they wanted to perform surgery, she decided not to, and then she went with the herbal method, and she never got the organ in question removed! surely this is a better option?
I'm not positive surgeons work on commission. I'm pretty sure they work a yearly salary.
point is, if they do, they would want you to go with the surgery option, wouldn't they?
Because you'll just die faster.
are you implying eastern treatments kill you? because i'm pretty damn sure that's not true.
oh my god, really seventh? are you even reading my posts? you're calling me a
murderer for suggesting a treatment that I believe works! I'm not even saying he should drop western treatments - he should keep doing those, yes.
Hell, more than that even, I'm being threatened by him constantly bashing me into the ground with evidence or lack thereof. again, if he had even read my posts, we aren't loving arguing about evidence! we've acknowledge the lack thereof and are discussing other things!
oh and homeopathic medicine: i used that phrase and thought it meant something else. watching the video and doing quick wikipedia lookups: are you loving KIDDING ME? wow, that stuff looks stupid. in fact, it appears that these remedies are FDA regulated as Over The Counter drugs? now, those regulations are looser than perscription ones, but still, surely the FDA is wrong on this one?
also, is there really much more to discuss, slick? the tumor is non-cancerous.
