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is a labour of love and was written and constructed by Simon
King, a classical homeopath with over
15 years clinical experience.
There are over 2000 pages (and growing) of information
on how homeopathy works and how to effectively apply it.
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me if you have specific questions about homeopathy
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Homeopathy works on real, live patients,
not on test tubes. If you understand homeopathy, you'll understand
why.
That patients get better from homeopathy there is no doubt, the
evidence is there in the patients themselves. The complaint so
often presented though is that this is anecdotal evidence and
therefore somehow not valid. I find it extraordinary that in a
world where the majority entrust their very soul's welfare to
beliefs based on anecdotal
evidence**, the same majority will not allow anecdotal
evidence for their medical welfare.
I really couldn't care less whether homeopathy is 'scientific'
or not, nor could I care less whether it can be repeated in test
tubes. No matter how it works, what I do care passionately about
is that people get to see homeopathy work and do not throw it
away like an uncut diamond in the hands of a gardener, i.e. no
value is seen in it because it doesn't look like what we expect.
I care that people do not dismiss it out of hand purely because
they cannot understand how it works, or because it does not fit
into an understanding they have of medicine; one which is limited
by systems that are simply not applicable to homeopathy. Those
very systems that people try to fit homeopathy into, are often
the very reason why patients come to see homeopaths in the first
place because it is those systems which have failed the patient,
i.e. their doctors couldn't do any thing for them, yet homeopaths
often can and do.
Bear in mind that those systems ('scientific', double blind trials
etc.) are the same ones that condone those very drugs (that you
read about with fairly consistant frequency in the papers) which
have been removed from service having been found to be more dangerous
than beneficial, or to be worse than placebo (e.g. the recent
report on antidepressants having no clinical benefit). All those
drugs were sanctioned by exactly the same system that naysayers
want to subject homeopathy to.
If something so patently effective by its results (and so very
safe) is dismissed by those who may have medical or social status
but no expertise in the field of homeopathy, the losers are not
only the patients but the countries' health budgets. Homeopathy
is extremely cheap compared to conventional Western medicine.
The arguements against homeopathy cannot be justified on the grounds
that it doesn't work and those who have studied homeopathy will
understand why such antagonism as appears in the media is entirely
unjustified.
Instead of starting from the position that 'homeopathy can't
work therefore it doesn't'; why not take the position that 'patients
are cured when they go to see homeopaths so let's investigate
how this happens'?
Proof of the
pudding?
It's good to question, it's OK to doubt, much better
to explore, and really great to actually study:
- what is not good is blind dismissal from misconceptions
and half formed lopsided arguements.
So do explore the FAQ's
(1) - or if you're really sceptical (scepticism
is healthy, denial is not) - why not start by exploring the FAQ's
(2)?
and here's an interesting read on the TRUTH
ABOUT HOMEOPATHY (reproduced here
on this site in case the link gets broken)
** religious and
spiritual experiences and beliefs
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