"Since 2016 the volume of homeopathic products sold (in Germany) has fallen 12%"
Ha hah. Someone is finally fighting the scourge of homeopathy.
"Homeopaths typically spend a lot of time with patients, asking not just about symptoms but also about emotions, work, and relationships. This is all meant to find the root cause of a patient's suffering and is part of its appeal."
"offering treatments that contain a fragment of the Berlin Wall to cure feelings of exclusion and loneliness or a powder exposed to cellphone signals as protection from radiation emitted by mobile handsets"
Even though homeopath quacks spend a lot of time talking to patients and making them feel good, that is really the only healing they can offer - because they have no medicines, no cures beyond talk. Patients who live with diseases like spondylitis, arthritis or exostosis - chronic diseases that are debilitating and painful but have no known cure as yet - are easy prey for homeopaths. The homeopath fills in for a therapist, who would help the patient overcome the emotional trauma of living with a disease that can only be managed and not cured.
It would be fine if the homeopath restricted themselves to just listening to the problems of a patient and offering trauma therapy. However, not only do they insist on dispensing useless white pills containing nothing but water, they also specifically ask their patients to not consume modern medicine once they start consuming these pills. This keeps chronic patients away from drugs like DMARDs, which may not cure, but can very effectively manage inflammation and a wonky immune system.
Remember how scary AIDS used to be when we were growing up in the 80s and 90s? HIV infection is still terrible and definitely should be avoided. But HAART therapy, if started early and continued diligently, can very effectively prevent HIV from progressing to AIDS. Or TB - the terror of the 70s. DOTS therapy, even when administered through our miserable public health system, is able to cure TB for the poor. But what happens if, heavens forbid, an HIV or TB patient ends up with a homeopath or a reiki practioner because they ran out of patience with their slow acting but effective modern medicine therapy.
What Germany and the UK are finally doing, is slowly legislating away homeopathy, so that such quacks can no longer target unsuspecting and ignorant patients. Of course there is the "freedom of choice" lobby in both countries, insisting that they be allowed to wallow in ignorance and pseudo-science. Their arguments are very similar to the anti-mask and anti-vaxxer lobbies - that we do not want to be injected with artificial substances, and much prefer pills made of naturally occuring substances like artichokes and dandelions. They forget that an overwhelming majority of toxins and poisons that we are at risk of consuming are naturally occuring and not artificially made. Belladonna and Heloderma are just two homeopathic "medicines" - rather popular "medicines" that even I have consumed as a child - that are made from a toxic plant and a venom respectively.
This is my morning rant. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed blustering it out.
Ha hah. Someone is finally fighting the scourge of homeopathy.
"Homeopaths typically spend a lot of time with patients, asking not just about symptoms but also about emotions, work, and relationships. This is all meant to find the root cause of a patient's suffering and is part of its appeal."
"offering treatments that contain a fragment of the Berlin Wall to cure feelings of exclusion and loneliness or a powder exposed to cellphone signals as protection from radiation emitted by mobile handsets"
Even though homeopath quacks spend a lot of time talking to patients and making them feel good, that is really the only healing they can offer - because they have no medicines, no cures beyond talk. Patients who live with diseases like spondylitis, arthritis or exostosis - chronic diseases that are debilitating and painful but have no known cure as yet - are easy prey for homeopaths. The homeopath fills in for a therapist, who would help the patient overcome the emotional trauma of living with a disease that can only be managed and not cured.
It would be fine if the homeopath restricted themselves to just listening to the problems of a patient and offering trauma therapy. However, not only do they insist on dispensing useless white pills containing nothing but water, they also specifically ask their patients to not consume modern medicine once they start consuming these pills. This keeps chronic patients away from drugs like DMARDs, which may not cure, but can very effectively manage inflammation and a wonky immune system.
Remember how scary AIDS used to be when we were growing up in the 80s and 90s? HIV infection is still terrible and definitely should be avoided. But HAART therapy, if started early and continued diligently, can very effectively prevent HIV from progressing to AIDS. Or TB - the terror of the 70s. DOTS therapy, even when administered through our miserable public health system, is able to cure TB for the poor. But what happens if, heavens forbid, an HIV or TB patient ends up with a homeopath or a reiki practioner because they ran out of patience with their slow acting but effective modern medicine therapy.
What Germany and the UK are finally doing, is slowly legislating away homeopathy, so that such quacks can no longer target unsuspecting and ignorant patients. Of course there is the "freedom of choice" lobby in both countries, insisting that they be allowed to wallow in ignorance and pseudo-science. Their arguments are very similar to the anti-mask and anti-vaxxer lobbies - that we do not want to be injected with artificial substances, and much prefer pills made of naturally occuring substances like artichokes and dandelions. They forget that an overwhelming majority of toxins and poisons that we are at risk of consuming are naturally occuring and not artificially made. Belladonna and Heloderma are just two homeopathic "medicines" - rather popular "medicines" that even I have consumed as a child - that are made from a toxic plant and a venom respectively.
This is my morning rant. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed blustering it out.