Guest guest Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Dear Friends, Incensed by the Lancet Report signalling the " End of Homeopathy " , the Govt of India has declared it will supply the Lancet magazine with all data required to show that homeopathy really works. It has said that homeopathy has been extremely popular in India ever since Dr J M Hoenigberger arrived in 1839 to treat Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab, curing him of paralysis of vocal chords and oedema. Dr Hoenigberger then settled at Calcutta (now Kolkata) for a long time before returning to Germany. Calcutta is supposed to be a bastion of Homeopathy in India as eminent public figures studied the science, translated Hahnemann's works, wrote about their own findings and even discovered new drugs. The homeopathic physicians of India have equally condemned the report citing statistics about the growing popularity of homeopathy in India. Dr Ramadoss, the Union Health Minister, and a physician himself, said that in today's scenario, even modern doctors were not averse to refer their patients to homeopathy. A report said that 87% of the physicians in India believed that homeopathy works. The homeopath's in India were equivocal in pointing out that it was the growing popularity of homeopathy that had led the drug industry to sponsor the unethical and flawed report. They said it was surprised that Lancet, which had previously published reports that homeopathy works, would do a turnaround and declare the " end of homeopathy " . They said homeopathy was in the threshold of a new dawn. Only the Times of India in India has published the Lancet Report. And now today it has published the statement of Dr Ramadoss prominently thus atoning for its earlier sins. Homeopathy has a very large following in India and has been officially recognised since 1937. Regards, Jagannath. Start your day with - make it your home page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I am pleasantly surprised that a Govt. has come into action!!! Generally governments don't act. Anyway, supplying data will not help. Lancet is an academic journal of medical science. The correct reply to it would be to conduct a double blind or intra-subject well designed experiments on homoeopathy and send the data with article for possible publication in the Lancet. If the Lancet declines to publish, then such a study can be published elsewhere but in a blind refereed scientific journal only. Homeopathy received a set back when the French researchers could not prove their claim that water " remembers " the homeo medicine even after dilution. But recently homeo has received a big boost when three independent research teams came up with the finding that indeed the water " remembers " . Ratan. --- Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Incensed by the Lancet Report signalling the " End of > Homeopathy " , the Govt of India has declared it will > supply the Lancet magazine with all data required to > show that homeopathy really works. It has said that > homeopathy has been extremely popular in India ever > since Dr J M Hoenigberger arrived in 1839 to treat > Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab, curing him of > paralysis of vocal chords and oedema. > > Dr Hoenigberger then settled at Calcutta (now > Kolkata) for a long time before returning to > Germany. Calcutta is supposed to be a bastion of > Homeopathy in India as eminent public figures > studied the science, translated Hahnemann's works, > wrote about their own findings and even discovered > new drugs. > > The homeopathic physicians of India have equally > condemned the report citing statistics about the > growing popularity of homeopathy in India. > > Dr Ramadoss, the Union Health Minister, and a > physician himself, said that in today's scenario, > even modern doctors were not averse to refer their > patients to homeopathy. A report said that 87% of > the physicians in India believed that homeopathy > works. > > The homeopath's in India were equivocal in pointing > out that it was the growing popularity of homeopathy > that had led the drug industry to sponsor the > unethical and flawed report. They said it was > surprised that Lancet, which had previously > published reports that homeopathy works, would do a > turnaround and declare the " end of homeopathy " . They > said homeopathy was in the threshold of a new dawn. > > Only the Times of India in India has published the > Lancet Report. And now today it has published the > statement of Dr Ramadoss prominently thus atoning > for its earlier sins. Homeopathy has a very large > following in India and has been officially > recognised since 1937. > > Regards, > Jagannath. > > > > Start your day with - make it your home page > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > __ Start your day with - make it your home page http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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