comment by Respected Ttliv87 (U11882)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 2 minutes ago
Unanimously rejected? It most certainly has not, showing more ignorance on the subject
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By anyone whose opinion is worthwhile yes. The dailystar have probably given it a big thumbs up though.
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Absolute rubbish, there are literally 1000's of cases where alternative treatments have helped a wide range of problems.

I'm not saying plenty of these treatments don't turn out to do anything but there are plenty that work, you're also totally dismissing the power that the mind has on the body, a placebo for example can do wonders if the patient thinks it will work.

Just admit your comment was a bit ridiculous

I can't remember which hospital it was, buy one conducted a study on pro-biotics (not supported by "modern medicine" because science says it shouldnt work) patients given the pro biotic everymorning recovered faster than those without and were less susceptible to other illnesses presenting the hospital.

So much so that the nhs might roll it out across all hospitals because it would save them a considerable amount of money.

Yet pro-biotics are an alternative treatment. Because the science doesn't back them.

Closed minded fool

Exactly Insert, such a ridiculous thing to dismiss something that has been around and worked for 1000's of years.

Good question, I remember this. I think it was in 2009 that Yossi Benayoun recovered from a knee injury in about 17 minutes using horse placenta.

It's more than likely, considering the daily leaps in scientific understanding we still experience, that science just doesn't have the knowledge to explain some of these things yet

Insert

Like my Mother is a country woman and is convinced that if you put the tip of a spring onion in your ear it will get rid of an ear ache. I think it's ridiculous but she still does it and insists it works, the ear ache goes away after a while.
I think it's her mind convincing her the pain will go but for her it works but it's a fecking onion!

And her parents generation grew up by the sea and would have used seaweed to help cure all manner of wounds. It's still used allot in the West of Ireland today.

did anyone else hear that deafening *slap * sound followed by tumbling? it was titliv falling back down after trying to be smart.

acupuncture was 'accepted' as modern medicine in 1974 in a medical journal... it had (has) been around for over 2500 years.
Also, most pills and everything else you probably take now, developed and came from 'alternate' medicine, just rather than eating a pigs ear, the relevant vitamins or whatever it is that heals or works is extracted and manufactured into pill or syrup format to make it more "acceptable".
The same criticism about 'mumbo jumbo' medicine and the effects it can have on the mind, can be thrown into superstitious routines players follow pre match (right sock first, then left, right boot, then right). If it helps the player, and mri's and xrays suggest the player is fit after, who cares how it works?

I highly doubt a team let a player (multimillion pound investments) wrap some placenta around a knee, or eat it, or whatever, and then get them onto the field, without running tests to see if there is a difference.

is extracted and manufactured into pill or syrup format to make it more "acceptable".
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allow me to add a few things to this.
to make it more 'edible', 'digestible', 'tolerable', and easier to mass produce.

Phil Babb swears by the stuff.

He plasters a horse placenta pate on his nackers.

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 49 minutes ago
Like my Mother is a country woman and is convinced that if you put the tip of a spring onion in your ear it will get rid of an ear ache. I think it's ridiculous but she still does it and insists it works, the ear ache goes away after a while.
I think it's her mind convincing her the pain will go but for her it works but it's a fecking onion!
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When i was younger I used to get a lot of eye infections and my grandparents swore by rubbing a gold ring on the eye to heal it.

Used to work too

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comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 7 minutes ago
Want statistics?

99% of your posts are pointless cräp, contain no reason or insight

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And i forgot to add, that this statistic has beekeeper reviewed and universally agreed

Beekeeper I love this phone!!

Been peer reviewed!

tell us what you want statistics on?

acupuncture:

medically accepted in 1973-74:
"In 1973 the American Internal Revenue Service allowed acupuncture to be deducted as a medical expense."
www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Here-Brought/dp/0465041965

Thats acupuncture has been around for 2500 years:
(sorry, ill have to double that timeline to 5000 years but whos counting?)
"Acupuncture is generally held to have originated in China, being first mentioned in documents dating from a few hundred years leading up to the Common Era. Sharpened stones and bones that date from about 6000 bce have been interpreted as instruments for acupuncture treatment"
http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/5/662.long


Old mumbo-jumbo:
"Opiates, originally derived from the opium poppy, have been used for thousands of years for both recreational and medicinal purposes. The most active substance in opium is morphine—named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Morphine is a very powerful painkiller, but it is also very addictive."(...)
"Throughout the early nineteenth century, the recreational use of opium grew and by 1830, the British dependence on the drug reached an all-time high. The British sent warships to the coast of China in 1839 in response to China’s attempt to suppress the opium traffic, beginning the “First Opium War.”(...)
I believe morphine is currently in use in hospitals. I may be wrong, since I am just throwing things around of course... and pain killers of some sort are widely in use and mass production in the modern era.
"New painkillers came on the market with approval from the Food and Drug Administration: Vicodin in 1984, OxyContin in 1995 and Percocet in 1999."

all of the above is from this link:
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/painkillers/a-short-history.html

then again, it could all be down to something called "placebo effect", which is also a medically accepted terminology:
http://books.google.gr/books?id=pcWWi55xL3EC&dq=the+placebo+effect&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WhcsVJzIEeLMyAPmwIDgBg&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw

I apologise for the rashness of my links. On my phone atm, and its a bit difficult to put together a 100% full proof argument right now. I can get back to it later on if you would like?

and i had to find a different link for the placebo effect because the link contained the letters "f" and "u" and "k" one after the other and apparently its banned... really? cant post a link?

also, granted they are not "statistics" exactly, but you get the basic idea