I have let this thread go for several days, waiting for Venice to attack. Evidently, she hasn't gone to the library yet, to check her messages. (still camping) So, I have to reply.
Thank you Introspection for at least posting an intelligent comment or two!!!
Most of you know I was raised in a family that lived alternative medicine. My father was a chiropractor for many years, and helped countless people.......truly performed wonderful things for these people, who were suffering all kinds of illnesses. Then he went back to school and became a naturopathic physician. I am trained in nutrition and herbs and a little kinesiology. I had more training just yesterday.
I have traveled to Southeast Asia, and seen some amazing things done by Traditional medicine there. What we call alternative, they call traditional. They are far advanced over this country, and much of Europe, I suspect, although in Europe they are very open to alternative things.
When I was a child, my father taught us that milk was not good for you, and that many children are allergic to it, and we didn't drink it, at all, and only used soy products. I had asthma that disappeared after getting off of milk products. The MD's said it was all nonsense. Now it has become a mainstream thought, that milk allergies exist, and are responsible for most ear infections in infants, and colds and other respiratory illnesses. At the time he was telling us this, I would get in trouble at school, for not drinking my milk supplied with the school lunch. So MD's aren't on the cutting edge, believe me.
My beloved cousin, Sharon, is dying right now, of breast cancer that spread to her lungs, liver, bones and her brain. She combined natural things with her medical treatments, with the BLESSING of her oncologist, who said it would probably help her through chemotherapy, and absolutely not interfere with his treatments. It did help her, and she lost NO weight during the treatments. Her appetite was good. Her blood counts were very good, to the point of the doctors and nurses being absolutely amazed at her. Nothing worked for her, though, and she is dying quickly now, as the cancer takes over her brain. Nothing crosses the blood/brain barrier, unfortunately.
For those of us who have lived this and seen it work, the rest of you who are spouting uninformed, ignorant comments, are just plain irritating. You are still thinking and behaving like Jehovah's witnesses, who think they are the only ones who know anything. I am open to many things, and am not closed minded to anything, I hope. I believe, and so do most of the people I know who believe in alternative medicine, that there is room for both. If I break my leg, take me to a hospital, because no herbalist can help me set a bone. If I have cancer, I also want to see an oncologist, but I may combine it with natural things. The reason doctors talk against it, is because they are uneducated in it.
I am going to leave it at that.
Marilyn (a.k.a. Mulan)
