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• bunnymcd Nov 6, 2011

  Bayani wrote:

  A brief, but critical look at Ayurvedic "medicine": http://www.skepdic.com/ayurvedic.html

  "Ayurvedic medicine, in the United States, is an "alternative" medical practice that claims it is based on the traditional medicine of India. Ayurveda is derived from two Sanskrit terms: ayu meaning life and veda meaning knowledge or science. Since the practice is said to be some 5,000 years old in India, what it considers to be knowledge or science may not coincide with the most updated information available to Western medicine."
  

  Amazing! Only a 5000 year old record of healing naturally yet not accepted by 200+ years of "modern medicine."
  No, let's just pump everyone full of chemicals so we have more wackos out there. Let alone supplying $$ to the drug companies.
• 🇮🇱Tinea🦶Pedis🇮🇱 Nov 6, 2011

  Bayani wrote:

  Sabasaul wrote:

  Bayani wrote:

  Sabasaul wrote:

  BØRG23 wrote:

  This girl from work swears by silver water... She reckons it can cure anything... Bloody hippie...
  

  I am not a huge alternative medicine believer but I have used silver water before and been very impressed with the results.

  You're not talking about colloidal silver, are you?

  Yes, thats what I'm talking about. I've also uses Anika (spelling) which worked amazing well for bruising, swelling, etc.

  Arnica. I'm betting it was homeopathic, too.

  Wanna confirm that before I spell out what it is for everyone that doesn't know?
  

  Yeah, that's it I believe.
• GreenManXphile Nov 6, 2011

  Bayani wrote:

  GreenMan/x/🇺🇸💀🔫 wrote:

  Bayani wrote:

  Sabasaul wrote:

  BØRG23 wrote:

  This girl from work swears by silver water... She reckons it can cure anything... Bloody hippie...
  

  I am not a huge alternative medicine believer but I have used silver water before and been very impressed with the results.

  You're not talking about colloidal silver, are you?

  I think that's what was meant. I take colloidal silver.

  Very much recommend you stop: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

  Your suggestion is noted. I've decided to keep taking it.
• Bayani Nov 6, 2011

  bunnymcd wrote: Amazing! Only a 5000 year old record of healing naturally yet not accepted by 200+ years of "modern medicine."
  No, let's just pump everyone full of chemicals so we have more wackos out there. Let alone supplying $$ to the drug companies.

  Thanks for providing the perfect example of the "Appeal to Tradition" logical fallacy.

  Citing something' age provides no evidence of its efficacy, only evidence that it was a popular idea -- much like passing babies that were sick under a donkey in an effort to heal them. Funny how no one is saying that it works because it was an old belief.

  200 years of objective science, not around 5,000 years ago has been able to show that these "5,000 year old" remedies do not work.

  Billion-dollar Multi-national "natural medicine" refuse to conduct the research to validate their claims, in fact, a massively disproportionate amount of money is spent on Marketing compared to research and development.
• Bayani Nov 6, 2011

  Homeopathics rest on two key assertions unsupported by evidence:

  1) "like cures like"
  That is to say, the initial ingredient used in the remedy must cause the same symptoms in a healthy person.

  2) Serial Dilutions make more powerful remedies.

  Since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution (the most common dilution used in Homeopathy) would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 [or 10^60] molecules of water.

  This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.

  When this was pointed out to Homeopaths, the story changed and it has since been claimed that by shaking and diluting the original ingredient, imprinting a "memory" in to the water molecule.

  Obviously, changing the molecule of water from H2O means it is no longer water, and needless to say, the claims have not be validated.
• Bayani Nov 6, 2011

  Recent attempts by apologists have argued that it works on the "quantum" level, but again, this is not supported by any evidence.

  Disregarding the implausible nature of the theory, no robust clinical trials have demonstrated that Homeopathy provides an effect beyond placebo.

  That is to say, sugar pills labelled as Homeopathics provide no discernible difference to sugar pills when the researchers and the subjects do not know what is being administered.
• Bayani Nov 6, 2011

  GreenMan/x/🇺🇸💀🔫 wrote:

  Bayani wrote:

  GreenMan/x/🇺🇸💀🔫 wrote:

  Bayani wrote:

  Sabasaul wrote:

  BØRG23 wrote:

  This girl from work swears by silver water... She reckons it can cure anything... Bloody hippie...
  

  I am not a huge alternative medicine believer but I have used silver water before and been very impressed with the results.

  You're not talking about colloidal silver, are you?

  I think that's what was meant. I take colloidal silver.

  Very much recommend you stop: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

  Your suggestion is noted. I've decided to keep taking it.

  Sure, can I ask based on what? Would more evidence persuade you?
• ⚪️ Nov 7, 2011

  ahhhh the power of the placebo effect is fascinating. (affect? effect?)
• Bayani Nov 7, 2011

  saelo2myltlfren wrote:

  ahhhh the power of the placebo effect is fascinating. (affect? effect?)
  

  You're right, effect.

  Unfortunately, some people think placebos work for objective issues like wounds and diseases. Some people claim "the mind can cure the body" - it can not.

  Placebos help subjective sensations such as pain, or as uppers and downers.
• ⚪️ Nov 7, 2011

  Bayani wrote:

  saelo2myltlfren wrote:

  ahhhh the power of the placebo effect is fascinating. (affect? effect?)
  

  You're right, effect.

  Unfortunately, some people think placebos work for objective issues like wounds and diseases. Some people claim "the mind can cure the body" - it can not.

  Placebos help subjective sensations such as pain, or as uppers and downers.
  

  good stuff! so interesting to me.
• ⚡JUNIOR⚡ Nov 7, 2011

  GRANE wrote:

  Justin Duran wrote:

  ⚡JUNIOR⚡ wrote:

  My mom told me if you have a head ache to give yourself brainfreeze and it goes away OOOHHH yea that..... Yea haha what else..... Potatos get rid of swollen areas
  herba buena (mint) can be used as tea to get rid of stomich aches
  if you don't know how to swim jump in the deep end to learn... Oh wait... A cigarette in you ear (butt side while lit) can get rid of ear aches
  and my favorite a shoe or belt can make any crying go away and any limp be gone when out in public
  

  Omg you are so Latino! Lmao I've used all of these!(yes I am latino myself)

  You guys forgot about the 7up. And menudo for a hang over.

  never been hung over n everyone that I see hungover usually deals with it somehow when I don't see. Probably drink some more
  n yes I'm Latino lol

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