remedies

So, I recently got into a discussion with a friend who was proselytizing online about the civil right to make medical choices for one's self and one's family. The conversation began becuase of the widely publicized media case regarding Daniel Hauser - the young boy with cancer whose parents...

This occurred to me while reading the ongoing threads about the nature of 30C homepathic remedies etc. It's quite clear from reading those threads that the homepaths are never going to log in here one day and say 'oops, I've been prescribing water for the last ten years and all those positive...

Just watching Prime Minister's Questions, and the Totnes MP Anthony Steen asked Blair if funds for NHS dentists in Devon could be redistributed and used to buy homeopathic medicines for sufferers. Blair replied that he won't promise this, but that the local care trusts are free to distribute...

A very interesting article regarding natural rememdies appeared in The Times this week. I must confess that I always regarded such rememdies as pure quackery although risk free. Not so, according to the article: It's one thing debasing yourself and surrendering your dignity by putting your...

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=1870494476#post1870494476 I remember reading somewhere around here that homeopaths claim that their remedies will produce symptoms in people that aren't sick? Anybody have some good links to the claims that they think their stuff is toxic...

I've always been sceptical of the claims made by companies such as Zicam about the efficacy of zinc-containing products (gels, lozenges) in reducing the length and severity of common cold symptoms. The other day however, I was told by someone I respect that there were studies supporting these...

On the BBC news website this which starts "The growing demand for herbal remedies is threatening to wipe out 10,000 of the world's 50,000 medicinal plant species, conservation group WWF says" So when someone offers you a herbal remedy tell them that you are too "green" and environmentally...