Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy and its Demolishment by the World Media

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Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy and its Demolishment by

the World Media

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:17:28 +0100

 

 

 

 

The Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy

and its Demolishment by the World Media

by Louise Mclean

 

27th August 2005.

 

 

 

Anyone who read the papers, watched the news or listened to their

radios yesterday might be forgiven for wondering what yesterday's

media demolishment of homeopathy was all about. It comes hard on the

heels of a report on 24th August that Prince Charles commissioned a

study on the economic benefits of complementary medicine and a report

in The Times UK on 21st August which stated that `demand for

alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy is soaring

and people are increasingly using their medical insurance to pay for it'.

 

 

 

This news appears to have sent the pharmaceutical companies into a

flat spin and they went into coordinated overdrive to get all their

favourite medical and science correspondents to put out highly

negative stories about homeopathic medicine in newspapers all around

the world. These reports were based on a very unfavourable study on

homeopathy published in the Lancet which stated that the benefits of

homeopathy could be all in the patient's mind. The study was unveiled

with fanfare at the end of a week full of complimentary articles about

alternative medicine.

 

 

 

Commenting on the study Prince Charles commissioned, Professor Edzard

Ernst, the only professor of complementary medicine in Britain, made

unfavourable remarks about homeopathy and yet in an article of 22nd

November, 2003 entitled `A Scientist in the Alternative Camp'

published in the British Medical Journal Online, he says: `Our family

doctor in the little village outside Munich where I grew up was a

homoeopath. My mother swore by it. As a kid I was treated

homoeopathically. So this kind of medicine just came naturally'.

 

 

 

The ferocity of the media attack can only mean one thing – that there

is a huge rise in popularity of homeopathic medicine and that it is

now becoming a threat to the billion dollar drug industry! This

worldwide revolution has taken place almost entirely by word of mouth

and by personal recommendation - a truly remarkable phenomenon because

up until now the media has studiously ignored and excluded any

positive news on the subject.

 

 

 

A few years ago the programme Horizon on BBC 2 tried to demolish the

work of Dr. Jacques Benveniste whose studies proved that homeopathic

medicines work. Benveniste claimed his studies had been replicated

hundreds of times. Dr. David Reilly of the Glasgow Homeopathic

Hospital has also conducted many such successful studies and the

Bristol Homeopathic Hospital has conducted long term studies of the

benefits of homeopathic treatment. All these homeopathic hospitals,

including the London Homeopathic Hospital reportedly have at least 6

month waiting lists.

 

 

 

If anyone needed proof of the efficacy of homeopathic medicine, they

need only study the statistics of various epidemics during the 1900s.

In 1854 a cholera epidemic struck London. A report revealed that

under allopathic care the mortality was 59.2% whereas under

homeopathic care the mortality was only 9%. In the yellow fever

outbreak in the US in 1878, the mortality in New Orleans was 50% under

allopathic care and 5.6% for homeopathic care. Records of three years

of diphtheria in Broome County, New York from 1862 to 1864, show the

mortality rate for allopaths as 83.6% and 16.4% for homoepaths.

 

 

 

There are 220,000 homeopathic doctors in India and all over Europe,

especially France and Germany, homeopathy is hugely popular. The

Queen, who is arguably the richest woman in the world, reportedly

travels everywhere with a homeopathic first aid kit and often

dispenses to staff. The kings and queens of Britain have always had

their own personal homeopathic doctor and for the last two centuries

the aristocracy has traditionally enjoyed the benefits of homeopathic

medicine. Many famous people, including MPs choose homeopathic

treatment. Tony Blair's sister-in-law, Lyndsey Booth, changed careers

from being a lawyer to becoming a qualified homeopath. Is it possible

that all these people have been deluded into taking dummy pills, the

effects of which are `all in the mind', in their imagination?! Hardly.

 

 

 

What about animals and babies? How does the placebo effect work on

them?! As any homeopathic vet will tell you, homeopathic medicine

works almost better on animals than on humans and likewise, babies

respond particularly well to treatment. Is it even possible to

explain to them that the homeopathic remedy alleviated their symptoms,

much less that the psychological effect of taking it brought about the

cure?!

 

 

 

Hippocrates said there were two laws of cure – the law of opposites

(orthodox medicine) and the law of similars (homeopathy). In

homeopathy, a small, highly potentised dose of a substance (that in a

large dose would produce the patient's symptoms), works as a catalyst

to stimulate the patient's own dormant healing power, setting it into

motion to bring about cure. During the process of creating a

homeopathic medicine, the dilution alone would do nothing. It is the

effect of the succussion (vigorous shaking) in combination with the

dilution that causes the medicine to become highly potent in its action.

 

 

 

This Lancet study is probably just another skewed trial intent on

bringing down homeopathy, akin to the kinds of trials we have to come

to expect from a pharmaceutical industry that gave the green light to

such medicines as thalidomide and Vioxx.

 

 

 

The fact of the matter is that homeopathy has enjoyed a huge rise in

popularity for one simple reason and that is because it works.

 

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Possibly the largest worldwide press coverage of homeopathy in one

day! Please contact me at louise if you can't get

any of the articles up.

 

 

 

D-W World, Germany:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1692210,00.html

 

Arrive.Net, USA: http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/685773.html

 

Medpage

Today:http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/AlternativeMedicine/tb/1609

 

The Scotsman: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1836902005

 

Gulf Times:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2 & item_no=50040 & version=\

1 & template_id=38 & parent_id=20

 

BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/4183916.stm

 

The Guardian, UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,1555248,00.html?gusrc=rss

 

The Daily Mail,

UK:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehealthnews.html?in_a\

rticle_id=360205 & in_page_id=1797

 

The Courier Mail,

Australia:http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,1637471\

4%5E401,00.html

 

Reuters:http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews & storyID=20\

05-08-24T110146Z_01_KNE439306_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-ROYAL.xml

 

New Zealand

Herald:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5 & ObjectID=10342648

 

Fox News, USA: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166947,00.html

 

Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa:

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__internat\

ional_news/ & articleid=249200

 

IOA, South Africa:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 & click_id=31 & art_id=vn20050827101045868C2\

76991

 

The Times of India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211449.cms

 

The Weekend Australian:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16397748%255E2702,\

00.html

 

Herald & Times: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/45761.html

 

 

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Why is it that people everywhere, have been able to organize to work and fight

for every conceivable objective, yet we seem unable to do the same with media?

Why are we not able to effectively organize to begin and sustain a movement

against media, for all its obvious and growing evils?

JP

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Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:43 PM

Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy and

its Demolishment by the World Media

 

 

" Zeus " <info

Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy and its Demolishment by

the World Media

 

The Revolutionary Revival of Homeopathy

and its Demolishment by the World Media

by Louise Mclean

 

27th August 2005.

 

Anyone who read the papers, watched the news or listened to their

radios yesterday might be forgiven for wondering what yesterday's

media demolishment of homeopathy was all about.