Is this the end for the alternative medicine section? what do you think?!
Question: Is this the end for the alternative medicine section!? what do you think!?
is this section doomed!? I reported an answer as abuse because the answerer was claiming that giving an alternative medicine could help someone who'd had their spleen removed with a viral infection!. to my delight the complaint was upheld and the answer removed!. so If ANSWERS agrees that advising alternative therapies for medical conditions is unacceptable then the next step would be to remove this section!. so guys just keep reporting every time you see someone recommend an alternative medicine for a serious condition!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
What everyone seeking alternative medicine should realise is that in this context 'alternative' is just another word for 'unproven'!. If any alternative medicine had been proven to work, it would no longer be alternative medicine, it would just be medicine!.
So far so harmless, as long as the unproven medicine itself is not harmful and is required for a trivial ailment!.
But, as in the case you reported, advocating alternative medicines for serious medical conditions is dangerous, and it concerns me that there isn't any actual rule against this on YA!. You may even find that the answer you reported is reinstated on appeal!.
I don't spend a lot of time in this section as I have little patience with 'alternative medicine'!. I use the Cancer section of YA most, and posts recommending alternative quackery to desperate people appear on there disturbingly often, always from people who know absolutely nothing about cancer but have read about some miracle' cure' online!. It becomes their hobby horse for a week or two, and they feel no shame at recommending these to terminally ill people!.
I therefore share your concern on this issue!. I'd add to your wall of shame any and all of the things I've seen advocated as cancer cures or treatments - of the top of my head: laetrile/B17, hemp oil, Rife machines, tea, mistletoe, shark cartilage, Gerson and other diets, green tea, essiac tea, flaxseed and cottage cheese, grapes,herbal treatments, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen therapy and other quackery!.
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So far so harmless, as long as the unproven medicine itself is not harmful and is required for a trivial ailment!.
But, as in the case you reported, advocating alternative medicines for serious medical conditions is dangerous, and it concerns me that there isn't any actual rule against this on YA!. You may even find that the answer you reported is reinstated on appeal!.
I don't spend a lot of time in this section as I have little patience with 'alternative medicine'!. I use the Cancer section of YA most, and posts recommending alternative quackery to desperate people appear on there disturbingly often, always from people who know absolutely nothing about cancer but have read about some miracle' cure' online!. It becomes their hobby horse for a week or two, and they feel no shame at recommending these to terminally ill people!.
I therefore share your concern on this issue!. I'd add to your wall of shame any and all of the things I've seen advocated as cancer cures or treatments - of the top of my head: laetrile/B17, hemp oil, Rife machines, tea, mistletoe, shark cartilage, Gerson and other diets, green tea, essiac tea, flaxseed and cottage cheese, grapes,herbal treatments, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen therapy and other quackery!.
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NO!
Because in your list is no mention of Western Herbalism!. Herbs have been scientifically studied and proven to work!.
I would be the last person to advise someone NOT to take notice of a member of the medical profession but complimentary/alternative medicine has its place as does orthodox medicine!.
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{Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents"!. The thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts!?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised artificially!.
More recently we have discovered that the effect of isolating a medicinal compound from its parent plant usually increases the number of side effects associated with that drug!. The substances in plants that chemists wanted to eliminate from medicines turn out to have a modulating effect on a herb's actions and are often beneficial!. For example if meadowsweet is used as an anti-inflammatory, it does not have the stomach-irritating side effects that are associated with aspirin!. It seems that nature has provided us with well formulated drugs in the form of the weeds that grow on our doorsteps!}
http://www!.open2!.net/alternativemedicine!.!.!.
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Because in your list is no mention of Western Herbalism!. Herbs have been scientifically studied and proven to work!.
I would be the last person to advise someone NOT to take notice of a member of the medical profession but complimentary/alternative medicine has its place as does orthodox medicine!.
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{Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents"!. The thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts!?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised artificially!.
More recently we have discovered that the effect of isolating a medicinal compound from its parent plant usually increases the number of side effects associated with that drug!. The substances in plants that chemists wanted to eliminate from medicines turn out to have a modulating effect on a herb's actions and are often beneficial!. For example if meadowsweet is used as an anti-inflammatory, it does not have the stomach-irritating side effects that are associated with aspirin!. It seems that nature has provided us with well formulated drugs in the form of the weeds that grow on our doorsteps!}
http://www!.open2!.net/alternativemedicine!.!.!.
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I hope so!. As James Randi observes, it is a dangerous thing to believe in nonsense!. Yahoo have a responsibility to ensure that health and life threatening disinformation is not disseminated via their products!.
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stop talking bullocks!. no!. stop playing the police and get a real job!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I am well into complementary medicine as I have RA and OA and there is n cure for me and no tablets I can have to quell the pain so have to sue complementary medicine NO carry on!. If someone offers a help for anyone using either general or complementary medicine they have a choice whether to take it or not!. You have a choice as to whether you take a drug form the doctors or not!.
I have just put a question on the yahoo as I have found cure for a disease that is horrible and yes it does cure and works; when general medicine can do nothing!. I will say what it is if you email me!.
Point is that both medicines should go in tandem!. Both looking at each others offerings!. So leave well alone!.
That help might have been the real thing that could help that person and you have taken it away!.
I once told a person who was to have an operation bladder cancer to drinking cranberry!. He went to his consultants asked him!."Yes it si the best thing you can do"!. "Why didn't you tell me" he asked "because I can't give it to you under the NHS" was the reply!.
No I can't cure cancer and he did have his operation and I am pleased to say he is now OK but at least helped!. No more than that!.
So stop reporting things and leave it to the individuals to what to take!.
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I have just put a question on the yahoo as I have found cure for a disease that is horrible and yes it does cure and works; when general medicine can do nothing!. I will say what it is if you email me!.
Point is that both medicines should go in tandem!. Both looking at each others offerings!. So leave well alone!.
That help might have been the real thing that could help that person and you have taken it away!.
I once told a person who was to have an operation bladder cancer to drinking cranberry!. He went to his consultants asked him!."Yes it si the best thing you can do"!. "Why didn't you tell me" he asked "because I can't give it to you under the NHS" was the reply!.
No I can't cure cancer and he did have his operation and I am pleased to say he is now OK but at least helped!. No more than that!.
So stop reporting things and leave it to the individuals to what to take!.
GWww@Answer-Health@Com