Should Catholics use Homeopathy?

[Kei]

What is sad is the confusion of this with thinking natural cures don’t exist.

Pharmaceuticals are often made from natural substances in the first place.

 

[Cruciferi]

Oh but the millions of dollars in bribes and advertising must mean pharmaceuticals are always right… Right?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Right. As I said above, there are legitimate medical doctors who are not into overprescribing drugs (Osteopaths in particular) and will help you use natural remedies in a safe and effective way. I personally have cured some of my own conditions with apple cider vinegar.

Homeopathy is not synonymous with “natural remedies” or “folk medicine”. it’s based on specific principles that by and large do not work and are often harmful. Instead, seek out a medical doctor who is friendly to natural remedies and not in love with prescribing drugs. These docs do exist.

 

[Cruciferi]

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My arsenal employs many natural remedies. However, if all else fails I go to the doctor and he’ll prescribe something stronger.

 

[Peebo]

Pharmaceutical companies remind me of Tobacco companies…they knew decades before it came out that it caused cancer and other diseases they fudged the research by funding the research themselves…I don’t trust any of these multi national companies who spend huge amounts of money lobbying politicians…to me it’s just outright bribes…they should be thrown in jail…I wouldn’t be surprised if inexpensive cures have been found for some or more diseases…same with big oil alternatives…these companies can buy anyone out…or silence them in many ways…Nikola Tesla …probably the greatest genius ever…when he died the US government raided his place and confiscated his research…why?
http://altered-states.net/barry/tesla/

 

[Tis_Bearself]

My arsenal employs many natural remedies. However, if all else fails I go to the doctor and he’ll prescribe something stronger.

For sure. It’s also a matter of knowing what conditions need a doctor. A head cold or a spot of eczema on my neck don’t need a doctor. The cold will work itself through my system and the eczema I can treat with vinegar or with some dandruff shampoo from the store (an osteopath recommended this to me). However, if I have a bladder infection, I know that is not going to “just go away” without being zapped by an antibiotic and if I do not get help for it quick, I will not only be uncomfortable and bleeding but I will eventually get a kidney infection and maybe die, so off to the urgent care doctor I go.

 

[Rhubarb]

Homeopathy hast two tenets:

1. Like cures like The idea is that if a substance causes an effect in a person it can be used to cure that same effect in a person. For example since caffiene keeps people awake it can be used in sleeping pills.

2, The more diluted a substance the more potent it is The idea here is that a drop of substance in a glass of water is not as potent as a drop of the same substance in an olympic swimming pool. Homeopathy has a specific dilution scale to show the ratio of the substance to water. For example, a 10C dilution (C as in the Roman 100) means that it starts with one drop of substance to 100 drops of water, then mixed. Then a drop of that solutions is mixed with 100 drops of water. And so on and so on until the process is done 10 times. Dilutions can get so high as that there probably isn’t an atom of the substance left in the solution.

These two tenets simply don’t work. We know that the more of a medicine used the more potent it is. We know that like does not cure like.

It’s not a matter of religion. Homeopathy is complete nonsense and no one should use it.

I want to repeat this, because it’s absolutely right. Homeopathy isn’t about “natural cures” or “herbal cures” or whatever. It’s about using three hundred year old ideas about medicine. It’s hokum. Balderdash. Hooey. Horse pucky.

That being said, natural cures isn’t - we all have examples of using natural remedies, like teas and such when you’re sick. That isn’t homeopathy. That’s using folk medicine.