Would you like to see Alternative Medicine included into a Doctor's Medical Training.?

Yes, for sure it would be a great idea. I've recently read a book on homeopathy and I find it staggering that institutional medicine and science offer it so little respect. Even when we are just beginning to understand the energetic properties of the human body and quantum mechanics appears to support a lot of the science behind homeopathic medicines.

Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies are far too powerful and far too influential. They consider homeopathy as a direct threat to them regardless of the health benefits it can provide. In reality, 'It's nothing personal' as far as the pharmaceutical companies are concerned, it's just about business and profit. Even though business and profit should be the last thing involved with healthcare. You could say, alternative medicines is just another victim of the corporate privatization of healthcare because we can't have freely available minerals curing people, think what that would do to the pharmaceutical companies profits.

It's a perfect example of how healthcare has become totally corrupted. Weighing up the financial implications of someones health is immoral, unethical and downright wrong in my opinion. However, when you understand the bigger picture, it all starts to unfold and become a lot more sinister that what we first suspected because believe it or not, our current healthcare services are not there is make us better.

As shocking and as crazy a statement that last one was, it's unfortunately true and it's actually thanks to alternative medicine, that we've happened to discover this. Modern medicine is all about treating symptoms rather than providing a cure and theres nothing better for a pharmaceutical company putting people into a perpetual circle of apparently unrelated symptoms so they can continue to provide the drugs. The elephant in the room is the word 'SIDE-EFFECTS'. Think about it, there NOT side-effects, their actually just EFFECTS of the drug. Every drug has a list of these so called side-effects and people willingly accept them because of the word side-effects and thinking they'll be okay. It's funny when you think about it because it's common sense, they're the simply EFFECTS of the drug.

Pharmaceutical companies don't like alternative medicines because they don't just treat the symptoms, or rather, they don't just REPLACE the symptoms, instead, they actually cure the patient. In homeopathy, a practitioner will have reverse all the symptoms that mainstream healthcare has created inorder to get to the source problem and cure it. For example, someone may have gone to their GP with a rash and the doctor gave the patient a cream which got rid of the rash but a few weeks or months later the patent had a new problem which the doctor fixes and so on and so on. If this patient then went to a homeopathy practitioner, they would have to reverse all the symptom until the patient was started getting the original rash, then the practitioner can cure the patient.

You see, if you speak to any homeopathy practitioner they will explain the harm your doing to yourself by only treating symptoms and using pharmaceuticals.

People say homeopathic medicine is ridiculous because after you've diluted the substance by a factor of 10, there isn't any trace of the substance left. This is the first thing thats usually mentioned by the mainstream media and anyone else discrediting homeopathy. The fact of the matter is, no, there isn't any physical trace of the substance left but on a quantum, energetic level there is. Also, inbetween each dilution, you usually have to shake the content vigorously which creates energy on an atomic level so when you drink the final does after all the dilution, it may only taste like water but in actually fact, you are drinking a carefully cooked source of energy.

When you understand the science, it makes SO MUCH more sense than conventional medicine. It's just all we've know and all we've been educated to know is if you get poorly you have to take a pill of chemicals. It's crazy. I'd much rather energy than chemicals.

Anyway, I could say much more but this is already far too long. Sorry if I bored you.

Actually modern medicine is the alternative that has become mainstream which subverts the real medicine...

Hipocrates said let medicine be your food and food your medicine.... That is the true way which they have turned into just an alternative because they can't get rich with it

You would make the most progress in your career by becoming a regular doctor and then ADDING alternative medicine to that foundation. If you try to be a "doctor" without a degree or certification then you are just asking for lawsuits and you will be harassed by the law.

It is true that alternative treatment (AT) is widely used, but that doesn't mean that doctors should embrace it uncritically. Doctors should know about the therapies in order to discuss them openly with their patients, but they should not be practising them. There are other ways to placebo boost treatment. History is full of examples of alternative ideas becoming conventional after documentation of effect. And research has been carried out on several alternative ideas to answer the question if there is any effect beyond placebo. And beyond reasonable doubt the answer is no. That the royal family endorses AT is not a valid argument. They are just as prone to placebo as the rest of us. And they are certainly not comfortable with being contradicted. A professor and researcher of AT was being reprimanded for arguing with prince Charles. Charles had approached him to explain why the professor was wrong in his conclusions, and when he tried to explain how Charles had gotten it wrong, the conversation ended.

It would also be unethical for doctors to administer AT for serious conditions where effective conventional treatments are available. That point may be more easy to understand if we use an analogy. Let's say that an alternative idea existed that the liver is responsible for the circulation of blood - not the heart. And the treatment of circulatory disturbances consisted of abstinence from alcohol. Replacement of conventional medicine with abstinence from alcohol is not recommendable.

The idea that the liver is responsible for blood circulation is really no more absurd than the philosophy behind homeopathy and many other kinds of AT.

Actually, it's usually under the umbrella of "behavioral medicine" - because doctors know why patients seek alt med - and those issues need to be addressed (for example, frustration with non-responsive conditions....most people who seek alt med have conditions that are chronic and don't respond well to ANY treatment) and they need to know what interactions to look out for....gingko reduces platelet count for example, sure wouldn't want to confuse that for something more serious now, would you?

This might surprise a few people.

Yes I think it should.

When I started science we covered the phlogiston theory, the heliocentric theory, the miasma theory, and I could go on, then showed how science actually worked.

This is all about science moving onwards, science moves and scientists get excited about science moving on. The most exciting thing about science isn't the incremental change it's the "tear up the books this explains everything" change - there have been a few paradigm shifts in the past 200 years.

The problem is that while medicine moves on, alternative medicine doesn't. Hence they look at thousands of years old medicine for a panacea while ignoring old western medicine which makes as much sense. Western medicine worked on balancing the four humours, ayurvedic works on balancing the 5 primitive states. So while ignoring blood letting and purging, you're acknowledging the same things in eastern myths.

"We have a homeopathic Hospital here in London. And our Queen has her own personal homeopathic doctor. "

Just about says it all. Appeal to authority, just like Price Charles is a follower of the Architect of Hitler" and doesn't like modern designs and talks to his trees.

Soon these people will die out and you'll be left with drinking water on your own.

Not necessarily but I would like to see more doctors poke their heads into more subtle aspects of healing.

During the first visit to the U.S. by the Dhali Lama his personal physician toured the Bellevue Hospital in New York. He asked to examine one of the patients. He took her pulse. He sat there for twenty minutes while the doctors, interns, nurses and staff who were considering themselves important enough to follow along stood there upset and disturbed by the delay in their scheduled set of mind and heart, what I refer to as density of ignorance.

When the Tibetan Physician finished reading the patients blood and lymph pulses he announced his findings. The patient had suffered scarlet fever as a child and it had damaged this particular valve in her heart. Over the years that damage had caused other problems to develop within that twenty minutes he had diagnosed her problems and causes and what the treatment should be.

Under the current medical system we have the hospital had used many tests and procedures at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars and over many years to learn only a little of that knowledge. And not one of those attending doctors and nurses asked, 'can you teach us what you know?'

There are subtle aspects of Reality that the ego/mind level of our medical traditions cannot even imagine let alone embrace.

Namaste'

That would of course be fine if any of these alternative choices actually contributed anything beyond a placebo effect. Since they don't it would represent a foolish waste of resources.

Nobody finds alternative medicine to be of benefit because basically, it doesn't work.

"Why does she do that if it is of no value?" Because she's the Queen, not a doctor or scientist so as gullible as anyone else out there.

Pamela Anderson and David Beckham? I rest my case.

Luckily such ridiculous wastes of NHS money such as homeopathy is being slowly shut out so the money can be spent on medicine that works.

Yes I would as a lot of people do find value in alternative therapies. I think patients should be given as many options as possible. And yes, a lot of patients do find value in homeopathy but perhaps it isn't enough to warrant NHS funding (in their eyes). This brings me to my next point in regards to what the NHS chooses to fund - the NHS throws away countless amounts of money on treating people with alcohol poisoning and liver transplants and obesity related disease and illness. To the medics on this forum - you want to talk about the spending and funding priorities of the NHS? Ok.

Perhaps the NHS shoud CHARGE people who get drunk deliberately, cause violence and abuse NHS staff and take up hospital waiting and treatment time which is completely self-inflicted! It infuriates me beyond belief. What a waste of the tax payer's money! The same can be said for people who have gastric band operations on the NHS. It is terrible. There is no excuse for that. I may sound harsh but the cure for obesity is to change your mentality towards your health and through diet and exercise. The 'quick fix' gastric band operation is like giving them a pill to make it go away. Not the right way to change someone's priorities for the better.

I am well aware that these are life saving measures but it is not an effective preventative treatment and solution for the problem.They need to approach the root cause of the problem instead of providing quick-fix temporary solutions which will have no lasting effect on the health and well-being of their patients. It is all about symptoms management. Treating the cause is nowhere to be seen.

They would rather spend money on that instead it would seem than keep homeopathy as an option for their patients. Some people may benefit from homeopathic treatment. People who work for the NHS cannot turn around and tell me that they have their priorities straight when the tax payer's money is being wasted in such an abominable way. They whinge and whine endlessly on this forum about funding homeopathy when they have far greater issues to attend to which pose a much greater risk for people's health in the long-term. It is time for the NHS to get its act together.

The 'wastage' of NHS funding set aside for homeopathy is nothing in comparison to what it spends out on treating the effects of alcohol abuse:

Alcohol related admissions cost the NHS:

3 BILLION POUNDS PER YEAR.

Funding for Homeopathy on the NHS:

4 MILLION POUNDS PER YEAR. (6 pence per head per annum for the tax payer).

Now - Wouldn't you say that something is seriously going wrong somewhere? I sure as hell would. Yes, the NHS wastes money disgracefully...and homeopathy is the least of their problems. Rant over.

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