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From: [email protected] (Robert Gasch)
Subject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?
Gordon Banks ([email protected]) wrote:
: In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Robert Gasch) writes:
: >
: >: From a business point of view, it might make sense. It depends on
: >: the personality of the practitioner. If he can charm the patients
: >: into coming, homeopathy can be very profitable. It won't be covered
: >: by insurance, however. Just keep that in mind. Myself, I'd have
: >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >
: >In many European countries Homepathy is accepted as a method of curing
: >(or at least alleiating) many conditions to which modern medicine has
: >no answer. In most of these countries insurance pays for the
: >treatments.
: >
: Accepted by whom? Not by scientists. There are people
: in every country who waste time and money on quackery.
: In Britain and Scandanavia, where I have worked, it was not paid for.
: What are "most of these countries?" I don't believe you.
In Holland insurences pay for Homeopathic treatment. In Germany they do
so as well. I Austria they do if you have a condition which can not be
helped by "normal" medicine (happened to me). Switzerland seems to be
the same as Austria (I have direct experience in the Swiss case).
At the Univeristy of Vienna (I believe Innsbruck as well) homeopathy
can be taken in Med. school.
I found that in combination with Acupuncture it changed my life from
living hell to a condition which enables me to lead a relatively
normal life. I found that modern medicine was powerless to cure me
of a *severe* case of Neurodermitis (Note: I mean cure, not
surpress the symptoms, which is what modern medicine attempts to
do in the case of Neurodermitis).
I'm not saying that Homeopathy is scientific, but that it can offer
help in areas in which modern medicine is absolutely helpless.
From reading your aritcle it seems that your have some deeply rooted
beliefs about this issue (this is not intended to be offensive or
sarcastic - it just sounded like that to me) which makes me doubt
if you can read this with an open mind. If you do/can, please excuse
my last comment.
---> Robert
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