our medical system treats symptoms

[Monica]

If homeopathy and herbal medicine were to be accepted as effective, it would have to be studied through a clinical trial,

Homeopathy is very individual and thus a study using the double blind method won't work. Ten people with the same illness might need 10 different remedies because their constitutions are different. This is a key principle as to how homeopathy works. Yet the studies that were done failed to take this into consideration, gave the same remedy to all participants, and then gleefully announced that homeopathy failed to show any results.

Many clinical trials have been done. Check out Dr. Dorothy Shepherd's work during the polio epidemic, for starters.

But trying to fit homeopathy into a double-blind study, treating it like a pharmaceutical, is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

Then, if it's effective, the big companies are going to gobble that up and brand it as their own... which is what they are doing in the South Pacific right now.

That would never happen with homeopathy because it costs mere pennies to make homeopathic remedies. There isn't enough profit for the drug companies to take notice. Instead, their bogus websites like quackwatch.com continue their smear campaign to discredit safe, inexpensive, effective therapies with zero side effects.

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as monica had said earlier its about profit profit profit. to be a healer to me means to be a lover of souls . because u absolutely hate to see others suffer u dedicate yourself to relieving their suffering. if that is the motivation of the healer then u are working with a true healer a true lover of humanity. the medical system is symbolic of our society imho, it is predatory, and so it feeds on its victims, oops , i mean patients . and there are a lot of sincere doctors and nurses i am not putting them down many are truly dedicated to healing so let me not be self righteous here. but the system itself is in general predatory and its about money.

The entire industry thrives by keeping people sick. Just drive through any big city and look at how many of the large buildings are either banks, hospitals or medical treatment centers! In my city there are so many hospitals and doctors' office buildings in one area that we call it 'the medical center' area of town. Then there are still more scattered throughout the city. Make no mistake: disease is BIG business! Each cancer patient is worth something like half a million bucks, as a commodity. How much is a diabetes patient worth to the industry? An arthritis patient? A heart disease patient? They are commodities to the industry.

Again, not referring to individual doctors or medical workers...referring to the industry.