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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Just in the last decade or so. Sure doesn't look like "woo". http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/ourservices/ourhospitals/rlhim/Pages/Home.aspx
But the allopaths didn't like it. Now it's OK and cool to be Integrated Medicine. They still do homeopathy. Not many can explain why putting a plug in the wall turns on a light either...it's sheer energy creating motion running down some wires. But if you put your finger in it, that energy goes elsewhere.
I remember when acupuncture was woo, too. Sticking needles in people for, gasp, pain???? Then Kaiser started doing it because it cut down on their costs (that, and yoga classes and chiropractic...more woo), and of course it worked, so they could be cheaper than the other medical plans. They own Northern California medical plans.
Allopathic medicine...if you can't see it on a slide, cut it up, cut it out, give it a pill, or become a specialist, it's just not real science. These things are not unimportant, but don't own the medical farm.
Remember Alexander Bell? Thomas Edison? Einstein? Real "woo" guys of their times.
Years of experience with its success. Works on animals, too. In No Cal they had a homeopathic animal practice/hospital. Like anything, you have to know how to use it...it requires actually educating oneself rather than traipsing into the doctor's office for a pill. There are times that is appropriate, but mostly not.