Message: 9
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:54:03 -0000
From: "Dogs on Holiday-UK"
Subject: Leg ulcers

Here is a prime example of a GP prescribing a homeopathic remedy and
not knowing what he's doing.
Catherine, a girl I work with, knows nothing about homeopathy but
knew of my interest in it. She asked me if she were to give me the
name of a homeopathic tablet
that had been prescribed by her GP to her mother for leg ulcers,
would I be able to tell her more about it. I told her I may have to
look it up in my books when I got
home but I would get her the information she wanted. So she wrote
down on a piece of paper Arsenicum Album 200c.
I immediately thought the doctor was prescribing at a constitutional
level but Catherine assured me her mother had only gone to her GP
for leg ulcers because they
were painful (and incidentally she didn't know anything about
homeopathy either, and neither had she requested to be treated that
way). So I then asked her what
exactly were the doctor's instructions - and this is the most
shocking part of it - he recommended she take EIGHT 200c ARSENICUM
ALB. A DAY FOR TWO WEEKS.
Well my mouth fell open! I told her to ring her mother up
immediately and tell her not to take any more. By then, though, she
had already taken 12.
Her mother seems to be ok, though, although she did suffer a cardiac
problem but after some tests was told she was ok.
It's a frightening thought what would have occurred had she gone
ahead with the doctor's intructions blindly!

Christine Wyndham-Thomas
www.dogsonholiday-uk.com