Terrell Lawman: Nada@ Leanne Baker, claiming herbs in their crude form are the same as the scientifically modified form is dishonest. Also evidence for the rest of what you've said in your answer please? Specially the part where you are, "getting rid of cancers, healing bodies that are supposedly 'terminal' all over the place" What works is used in medicine, what doesn't work is discarded.Edit: "I think you'll find these are scientific discoveries, not medical discoveries"(!!)...Show more
Marvella Benward: Well, we're getting rid of cancers, healing bodies that are supposedly 'terminal' all over the place, have provided 10,000 or so years worth of medical knowledge, showed you the herbs that provide around 85% of your medical drugs, give free or inexpensive medicine to millions of people around the world (much of which they can grow themselves), and more often than not have been talking about your amazing 'breakthroughs' for decades before they're mentioned in the m! ainstream. Wait a second... what we've achieved... given 'alternative' medicine is in fact traditional medicine, and has been around for millions of years, we've given you 'medicine' full stop!As a start.Just sayin'....Show more
Leticia Laiben: Traditional folk medicine indirectly lead to the birth of modern medicine...That's really the best thing I can say about alternative medicine.
Lynn Melbourne: yes, it's true the medical establishment/ disease maintenance industry has an unrivalled propaganda machine, powered by all the phoney press endless pharma dollars can buy, and the misleading stream of false hope inducing bullshit never ends. but more people are looking past the pseudoscience hype to the results of it all, and finding it does just the opposite that it implies. the greatest health discovery of all time, upper cervical chiropractic, in stark contrast, delivers on helping get sick well, and has been doing so for near a century. medicine's self-congratu! lations are meaningless to the millions it has failed, injured! and bankrupted. it's results that matter, but of course that's a subject medicine would, understandably, rather not discuss....Show more
Janeen Perona: It's gone from "annoying" to "offensive" to "comical".Consider: a few years back, I was driving to work when my path was blocked by a car exiting the parking lot. There was room enough for two vehicles, but she just felt like straddling the center of the egress. I was momentarily miffed, as I was now blocking traffic near a major artery. The car's driver (a sphero-sapian) parked it and opened her door, revealing a green muumuu with orange polka dots. A flabby arm then produced an ashtray, which she proceeded to empty right there on the pavement.I went from annoyance to agitation to hysterical laughter within the space of ten seconds....Show more
Debora Rinderer: Oscillocoxinum. OJ, chicken soup, that stuffy head fever something something so you can rest medicine (can't remember the name) cough drops and Life Sa! vers, hot tea, ibuprofen for during the day. Peppermint candies help, I don't know why, but after a while I can't stand the cough drops anymore, and these seem to work almost as well.My dh takes that Airborne supplement. And uses lots of antibacterial hand gel....Show more
Armanda Hertel: Initials studies indicated that omega-3 oils (flax and fish) might help, but follow up studies were not so promising. I don't think your doctor would take issue if you were to try it through....but ask first, and don't discontinue use of your meds without talking to them either.
William Vickerman: Are you ready to sponsor wine and bread for 4000 people every week of the year? ill give you a list of people every week attending my small church in a developing country: 500 people attend mass everyday except sundays: 3000 1000 people attend mass on sunday: 1000 Total:4000 We use the same chalice for all these years and NOBODY has EVER fallen sick. We prefer it this way too. You d! ont sound Christian to me. Probably a critic who has been observing our! faith for quite sometime right? Edit: Yes maybe you should consider visiting. Could drive a little sense into you. Im pretty sure you are not Christian though. Edit: Case closed? Who do you think you are? You sound more like a pesky kid commenting on somebody else's religion and writing offending stuff and then you go on to justify yourself. Great going mate. Edit: Dear birdbrain, You call the sacred chalice 'Swine flu chalice' and the bread a 'poker chip' and you expect me to believe you are a christian?????? Take your crap elsewhere kid. Case closed from my side. No use talking to twerps like you. Edit: Well, atleast I had the guts to stand up and write against the rubbish you wrote. Have a nice day. Edit: Now if I do drink at a bar, do you have a problem with that? Stop pestering kid. This is my last edit. You can keep on ranting how much ever you wish....Show more
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Maryland Gareau: So, here's the long and short of it...I need to build up some ! type of immunity. so, taking antibiotics at this point is really silly. I'm feeling just terrible right now and my doctor wont be in until TUESDAY! so....alas, I'm stuck without any advice to go on. I plan on getting the flu shot now but I'm highly interested in what people suggest to help with: coughing, wheezing, severe body aches and nausia and just general complete grumpiness... I'm very interested in dietary solutions. Mom always said chicken noodle soup...do you have any old recipes or ideas to help soothe my raging soul?...Show more
Collin Pelfrey: In the movie Mary Poppins. there is a song called "A Spoon Full of Sugar" In this song, the main lyric is "a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down" now what I want to know is, is this true?
Aldo Decurtis: *Your favorite alternative here* is of great medical advancement - Our day of reckoning will come and you will be made to eat your words; *shakes fist* just you wait, Gary!
Maynard Reevers: H! i EmilyThat phrase might have come about because many old-fashioned rem! edies for ailments based on natural extracts were bitter. So when they first made cough medicines they were made in the form of a syrup, perhaps to disguise the bitterness. Some modern medicines are bitter hence why we still have syrupy medicines but nowadays many contain non-sugar sweeteners....which have their own problems if not tooth decay. Thanks......Show more
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Aldo Decurtis: I've been in your situation. Antibiotics and doctors' treatments (and flu shots) are not in your best interest.Here's what I want you to do -- go to your local health food store (or Vitamin Shoppe) and pick up the following:Vitamin C (500 to 1000 mg CAPSULES)Oil of oreganoZincLysineOlive leaf extractGarlic capsulesProbioticsBegin your morning with 1,000 to 4,000 mgs of C and the standard dosage of the rest. Take 1,000 to 4,000 mg of C during the day once or twice. Follow this up with the same dosage of all before bed. You'll want to maintain this for a period of at leas! t 6 weeks. See how great you feel!...Show more
Idell Syed: There is some ie "very limited" medical research going on right now that involves bathing the substantia nigra, (the part of the brain that makes dopamine) with nir or near infrared light. It has been shown to be effective in rats in the very early stages of the disease. There are currently no human trials going on or planned, as a device must be implanted into the skull. It could be promising for future generations, but probably won't help anyone afflicted now.
Coleman Senn: I was just diagnosed. I have very dry eyes and dry mouth. The medications suggested have side effects. I was wondering if anyone discovered anything that has helped them other than taking drugs.
Ronnie Panas: Working around children always is a challenge & with that they bring the runny noses & sneezes, etc. My granny used to give us Chamomile tea with honey & lemon Into which she poured a capful of Old Grand Dad Whiskey. T! hen she'd rub our chest with Vicks Salve & put on one of grampas old te! e shirt under our pj's & tell us to get under the covers & sweat it out.HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!
Anibal Scheid: First off you need to take it all in context. The film was depicting a time when medicine was not the neat little pills we use today for everything from hang nails to constipation. The meds used back them were nasty and very difficult to get down. One example is petroleum jelly, the pure stuff. It was and still is a great cure for most colds but the stuff is very difficult to get down. They would take a ball of it and roll it in sugar before swallowing. (no neat little pills). The time period in question, few people used sugar very often, back then it really was a treat to have a sweet. Today sugar is in everything. So basically the song was appropriate for the time period and accurate of the way meds were given. Just doesn't match up to todays sugar laden world....Show more
Troy Staton: The Hot Toddy - The original night time, sniffling, sneezing, c! oughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, so-you-can-rest medicine, since 1721.
Luke Gacusan: The other answer has a valid point, but seems like more of a cynical response.Back in the 1800s when Mary Poppins is based, the medicine was more commonly liquids that didn't taste good at all... often bitter and was only to make someone better without regards to taste. Obviously, pharmaceutical companies have gotten smarter since then and have added flavors, sweeteners, and other things to make them taste better and make it easier to give medicine to kids. That can go too far in the wrong direction since kids do sometimes see it like candy and want to take more.Today, a spoonful of sugar won't make the medicine go down any more than it already does... unless you use it as a bribe for a child that doesn't like the taste of the certain medicine. Granted, you'd have to deal with a hyper child after that, so it's a lesser of two evils at this point ;-) I know some people just think ! of sweet things to swallow because of the taste of certain medicines, b! ut that would be more of a taste thing for pills and whatnot... most liquids already have flavors and/or sweeteners added as it is. Sugar wouldn't help with tablets because you'd need more water for it, but some people need to put pills in yogurt or something else they prefer the taste of if they can't swallow the larger pill (that's more of a size issue than taste, though, and they would normally crush them to do that).Good luck and I hope I helped!...Show more
Nilda Bafia: I think the biggest achievement in alt med is getting people to focus less on going to the doctors to treat their problems and more on self-treatment and prevention. Of course, now we're getting lemmings who just go along with any alt med news they hear, and some die from inadequate treatment, but maybe eventually we'll reach a happy medium...
Sunshine Holets: Numerous pain management techniques have helped millions of sufferers without the unpleasant (and sometimes deadly) side effects and ! addictions. Much "alternative medicine" has now become mainstream. For example: naturopaths and herbalists have long recommended garlic for hypertension. Your family physician would probably recommend it now....and if you actually do it, you don't have to get liver function tests every 6 months (those cook your liver) :) I could go on, but I'm not willing to invest the time for your sarcasm. :)...Show more
Shaquita Wernicki: I was diagnosed with Primary Sjogren's approx 25 years ago.....During the time I had a practice in natural medicine in the '90's, I read about clinical studies done in England that showed success with Evening Primrose Oil (Omega 3) helping tear functioning....At age 35 I was diagnosed with a severe tear defiicency and after 1 year of taking EPO, I went back to the eye Dr and he was shocked at the improvement in my eyes.....The staining on my corneas was gone.......After approx 17 years of taking EPO, I have a very minimal tear deficiency....Tradi! tional medicine has never helped me.....Avoid steroids which will only ! result in brittle, broken bones,which my 1st cousin now has after years of taking steroids to help with pain from Sjogren's.....There are many natural treatments that have helped me, such as proteolytic enzymes to help pain and inflammation; acupuncture, immune support...Show more
Kizzy Hett: chicken soup is supposed to have something in it that makes one feel better. Drink a lot of juices. Take Benedryl at night. Use tissues with lotion to help your nose from becoming chapped. Also...preventive medicine, sounds stupid, but it works, wash your hands all the time in anti bacterial soap. AND wash the door knobs with something that kills germs. Even spraying Lysol will help. Kids never wash their hands and they're always sick, they like to spread the wealth if you know what I mean....Show more
Gertrude Darke: The best I can think of is that, because of alt med, real scientists have discovered that spending more time with patients one and one greatly increases their! perceptions of their medical care."Dr." L - Real medicine IS science.
Keven Drumgole: She's from Australia which is interesting. I don't have any good friends studying medicine so I don't know much about what's taught, unfortunately, and I'm sure it depends entirely on the university. That answer was a bit scary for me to see, as an Australian. I haven't studied any type of medicine, alternative or otherwise, so what do I know, other than what the scientific community seems to think - but that's good enough for me. That answer came across as a bit immature and confused. I read it as the girl being concerned about the fact many treatments have serious side effects or are over-prescribed, therefore writing off all medicine as a whole and assuming there are benefits to alternative treatments (despite those not having been taught). Hopefully she'll learn more or at least get a credible basis for her beliefs later on....Show more
Catheryn Barringer: I think many con! cepts now being implemented even as part of Conventional Western Medici! ne had their roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine or Indian Ayurvedic Medicine (both of which have been in existence for a great many eons).The use of garlic, for example, to help treat blood pressure problems, or the use of St. John's Wort for depression, have their roots in the so-called Alternative Medicine sphere.Fact is: Many countries in the Orient have life expectancies greater than those of Western countries...and many in their population have never even once met a Western Medicine practitioner....Show more
Emile Okafor: I have had Sjogrens for several years. It is an auto-imune disease. You should see a Doc who will prescribe pilocarpine 10 mg tid for the dry mouth and Restasis bid for the dry eyes.A big symptom of Sjogrens is perfieral neuropathy and if/when that happens a good neurologist is in order.
Riley Migl: I think their answer would be that they are already perfect. Real medicine is flawed and needs advancement to catch up with Alt Med. I hav! e heard this argument used. Shocking
Sammy Tabatt: Observations indicate that Chinese Herbal Medicine might be of benefit, but more studies are needed.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22969828
Toby Caswell: Try it, the next time you're taking medication! When I take pills, I generally take them with apple sauce or yogurt -- which really does help the medicine go down! I can't imagine plain old granular grains of sugar helping the process; things would get stuck in your throat. You'd need a water chaser.
Debora Rinderer: I grew up with that song also and never quite understood it until I started taking herbal remedies. I live in Hawaii and take both noni and kava regularly and both of these are definitely an 'acquired' taste! If you're not used to the flavor sugar may be very helpful! For more about the flavor of kava go tohttp://www.KickBackWithKava.com
