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Allopathic Medicine!!!

I've been taking Vitamin D in the winter for the last few years, as there is good evidence that's a sensible thing for someone of my age who lives in a northerly latitude to do, but nowt else. I've had every recommended vaccination. At 67 I am in good health, and always have been.

Encouraging news about my nephew, the operation to reconstruct his bowel went well and my sister was able to talk to him on the phone when he regained consciousness (she can't visit him, of course). He'll probably need further surgery, but at the moment rest and recuperation are the order of the day.
 
Pixel42 said:
I've been taking Vitamin D in the winter for the last few years, as there is good evidence that's a sensible thing for someone of my age who lives in a northerly latitude to do, but nowt else. I've had every recommended vaccination. At 67 I am in good health, and always have been.

Encouraging news about my nephew, the operation to reconstruct his bowel went well and my sister was able to talk to him on the phone when he regained consciousness (she can't visit him, of course). He'll probably need further surgery, but at the moment rest and recuperation are the order of the day.
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Excellent!
 
People who knowledgeably promote Prevention recommend three things above all else: sufficient sleep, exercise, and water.

Of course, despite a vast array of ways that have been devised to get people to pay for those things, they're all also available for free. So naturally there's a big push to redefine Prevention to require chemicals in bottles.
 
Myriad said:
People who knowledgeably promote Prevention recommend three things above all else: sufficient sleep, exercise, and water.

Of course, despite a vast array of ways that have been devised to get people to pay for those things, they're all also available for free. So naturally there's a big push to redefine Prevention to require chemicals sugar and water in bottles.
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Homeopathy
 
arthwollipot said:
I've got one, thanks. I'm 51 and I don't have heart disease, cancer, diabetes, COPD or MS. I haven't given a single cent to Big Supp in my life, have never taken vitamins or homeopathy (except for that one time I drank the 24C hydrochloric acid), have never taken a health supplement or anything with the word "wellness" on the bottle. I'm healthy as a horse. A healthy horse.

If you've taken all these supplements and are healthy, how do you know that you're healthy because of the supplements? You don't. You can't know that. Maybe you would have been just as healthy without them. But Big Supp doesn't want you to consider that. They want to keep you on their "wellness" bandwagon so that they can keep bleeding you for money.
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Does that not then explain your good health? After all here is some more anecdotal "evidence". ;)
 
Trebuchet said:
Apparently it's awful. And yet...

I have a new grand-nephew, born last night or early this morning to my nephew and his partner. I expect that, as usual, she did most of the work!

Born by emergency C-section, two months premature. Three pounds.

Breathing on his own and beginning to eat. Has a good prognosis of a long and normal life.

Because of "allopathic" medicine. Which in sensible circles, is simply "medicine". Because it works.



Some on this forum would have denied him the benefits of modern medicine. **** you all!
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Was that an Allopathic C Section?
 
Mojo said:
That would be one in which instead of removing the baby, they would introduce something that has opposite effects to a baby.
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If it's "like cures like" then I'd think drinking milk would work pretty well. Preferably skimmed and diluted. But you have to be careful not to dilute it too much or the baby will be ejected too fast and be injured when it hits the wall.
 
Trebuchet said:
Apparently it's awful. And yet...
I have a new grand-nephew, born last night or early this morning to my nephew and his partner. I expect that, as usual, she did most of the work!
Born by emergency C-section, two months premature. Three pounds.
Breathing on his own and beginning to eat. Has a good prognosis of a long and normal life.
Because of "allopathic" medicine. Which in sensible circles, is simply "medicine". Because it works.

Some on this forum would have denied him the benefits of modern medicine. **** you all!
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As far as I know Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, refers to science-based, modern medicine. As this is a science forum that is literally full of people who pounce hard on anything even remotely hinting at being unscientific, one wonders who exactly you are so angry at?:confused: Even the few that do occasionally stray into the more unconventional areas of medicine, I have never seen trying to prevent medical care for the rest of us. So again I am left confused by this post.:boggled:
 
Red Baron Farms said:
As far as I know Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, refers to science-based, modern medicine. As this is a science forum that is literally full of people who pounce hard on anything even remotely hinting at being unscientific, one wonders who exactly you are so angry at?:confused: Even the few that do occasionally stray into the more unconventional areas of medicine, I have never seen trying to prevent medical care for the rest of us. So again I am left confused by this post.:boggled:
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I suggest you look over Caroline13's posts.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
As far as I know Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, refers to science-based, modern medicine. As this is a science forum that is literally full of people who pounce hard on anything even remotely hinting at being unscientific, one wonders who exactly you are so angry at?:confused: Even the few that do occasionally stray into the more unconventional areas of medicine, I have never seen trying to prevent medical care for the rest of us. So again I am left confused by this post.:boggled:
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Not really. As explained at the top of this thread, allopathy is the homeopaths' misguided version of modern medicine. So as is usual for them, it's an almost completely incorrect definition. Allopathy is as much an invented fiction as homeopathy. Modern medicine is completely different from them both.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
Not really. As explained at the top of this thread, allopathy is the homeopaths' misguided version of modern medicine. So as is usual for them, it's an almost completely incorrect definition. Allopathy is as much an invented fiction as homeopathy. Modern medicine is completely different from them both.
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Interesting. So tell me what was completely different than modern medicine in the OP cesarean birth?:confused: And why shouldn't have Trebuchet's niece used it?:boggled:

Maybe he does have good reason to be angry?:mad:
 
Red Baron Farms said:
As far as I know Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, refers to science-based, modern medicine.
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Allopathy is one of several schools of medicine explored until the beginning of the 19th century. Other main schools were Isopathy and Homoeopathy. These were schools that concentrated on observing and inducing symptoms. Isopathy and homoeopathy worked (in somewhat different ways) on inducing symptoms similar to those of the disease, while Allopathy induced other symptoms. In Allopathy, the symptoms caused by the medicine were seen as secondary, more like a sign that the medicine was potent in some way.

As Allopathy implied observing effects and efficiacy, this generally led to evidence-based medicine, and as such can be seen as a precursor to modern, scientific medicine. However, the term is archaic and is today mainly used as a derogative, especially by homoepaths.

As this is a science forum that is literally full of people who pounce hard on anything even remotely hinting at being unscientific, one wonders who exactly you are so angry at?:confused:
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This is a discussion forum. Thus, people enter into discussions. There are several hundred active members here, so it will be hard to pick a subject of any importance that will not find opponents. If this is not to your liking, you may be at the wrong place.

Even the few that do occasionally stray into the more unconventional areas of medicine, I have never seen trying to prevent medical care for the rest of us. So again I am left confused by this post.:boggled:
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Really? I wonder how you have avoided seing that. There are plenty of "alternative" practitioners who are very active in trying to discourage people from using conventional medicine, including certain in this very thread.

Hans
 
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