This slideshow presents a brief overview of the history of homeopathic medicine in the United States. Homeopathy was formulated by a German physician more than 200 years ago and came to America in 1825. At its peak there were 22 homeopathic medical schools and more than 100 homeopathic hospitals in the U.S. Homeopathy in America experienced a decline in the mid-1900s and has made a strong resurgence since the 1970s.
Most of the images here are from postcards and old homeopathic medical texts that were printed from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
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Ergon said on 12 Tuesday 2011 pm31 2:12 pm: First misrepresentation: that I addressed you personally when I made it clear it was to a group of homoeopathic deniers, operative word THEY. Second misrepresentation: that Homoeopathy has been disproven. It hasn't. Homoeopaths have their own, peer reviewed journals, their own standards, and a history of hundreds of years of proven efficacy. Third misrepresentation: that the burden of proof was shifted away from homoeopaths. No, and it never was, but as far as they're concerned, it never was shifted on to a bunch of pathological homeoeopathy haters either. Fourth misrepresentation: that my argument presented a series of logical fallacies when your obvious bias prevents you from ever being the judge of that. Fifth misrepresentation: that "the overwhelming evidence proves homoeopathy performs no better than a placebo" when the evidence in the homoeopathic threads HERE show how many times your ilk have ignored well designed studies that prove the opposite. Sixth Misrepresentation: That I appealed to authority. I made a comment to prove that many scientist were open to things beyond the unseen. You called those beliefs 'irrational', thereby setting YOURSELF up as an authority on that. |
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I did not know that!
Fascinating
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1844: American Institute of Homeopathy http://www.homeopathyusa.org/
1854: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), before Lincoln was elected president, he as a lawyer prepared a state legislative proposal to charter a homeopathic medical college in Chicago.
1847-1947: Homeopathy, Economics, and Government http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/johnston1.html
1938: FDA approved Homeopathic medicines
1993: The New England Journal of Medicine reported that 2.5 million Americans used homeopathic remedies and 800,000 patients visited homeopaths in 1990, and it has continued to grow.
From 1990 to 2000, sales of homeopathic products in the United States rose 1000% (Sayner-Flusche 2000). According to the National Center for Homeopathy, sales of homeopathic remedies in the US are over $300 million and are increasing by 12% per year. National drugstore chains carry homeopathic products and the number of professional practitioners in the US has increased from 200 in the 1970s to 3,000 today. (Stehlin, 1996).
Ref: Canadian Journal of Media Studies
A federally funded survey in 2007 found that in the previous year (2006) nearly 5 million Americans used homeopathic remedies
Ref: The Wahington Post 27 Oct 2009
Online Directories of Qualified Homeopaths in the US http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=125282864181714
It would be really lovely if the reality deniers knew what they were talking about before they opened their mouths.
Moreover, many of their arguments parallel those made by creationists with the chief argument being that science must be expanded to include their supernatural beliefs.
Similarly, the homeopathy apologists misrepresent homeopathy's status in the scientific community the same way that creationists misrepresent "creation science" and "intelligent design" as alternative scientific theories when they are not. The fact is that homeopathy is scientific implausible and the overwhelming evidence demonstrates that it is not efficacious.
Nevertheless, the evangelical homeopaths continue to proselytize their beliefs--oftentimes making claims contrary to the ethical codes of the bodies that purport to regulate homeopaths-- and completely disregard the health and welfare of the people they purport to want to help.
It has the most accurate information.
Homeopathy does not mean "natural", and natural does not mean safe. I can name quite a few completely natural compounds that will make you very sick and even kill you......like the pretty vinca ground cover in my front yard. Ma juang (Ephedra) is a naturally occurring plant extraction used in traditional Chinese medicine. It has caused psychiatric disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias, and even deaths amongst users and has therefore been banned by the FDA due to unacceptable health risks.
Your post describes true science which has indeed saved many, many lives. Homeopathy has never (not once) been associated with a verifiable benefit.
At first, bacteria and viruses were considered nonsense. People couldn't see them and they didn't trust the microscopes.
Chinese medicine with its focus on herbs and chi, was dismissed as nonsense for decades. It was very difficult to test in a trial. Now accupuncture has become commonplace in Western medicine. Chi is coming to be thought of as the energy or electrical signal passing along our nervous system. Recently I read of major surgery being done using only accupuncture as the anesthesia because the patient could not handle anesthesia.
Bizarre, how someone who considers themselves "scientific" has absolutely no graps of the facts.
There is a medical doctor in Spain who has performed over 20,000 surgeries using only hypnosis as a pain-killer. These surgeries include intra-peritoneal procedures such as cholecystectomies, etc.
Sorry to burst the bubble of your little world.
Homeopathy, on the other hand, cannot claim any real data supporting its worth or even a coherent theory as to why it should work.
shut life, soul and spirit out of the consideration and theres only matter left for you to consider
that you cant find the connection back to life, soul and spirit is due to the closing of the coceptive mind to them- an end of possibility- exclusion of things so far unknown-
effectively narrowing mind and world view
I guess you could hit the `real one' with the brick, and take the other straight from the faucet.
How about, oh I don't know, water?
No one has posted this link yet........
See: http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html
That website, whatstheharm, is a bad joke. There is no statistical analysis to evaluate true risk and they dumped a bunch of stuff in there just to pump the numbers up. This leads me to wonder about the overall accuracy of the site.
I'm sure that there are reasons to be skeptical of homeopathy, but what you're presenting is a very poor argument.
I'm not against skepticism, I just want some decent arguments.
In contrast, real doctors rarely tell patients that there is no risk from a treatment but, instead, identify the possible risks relative to the benefits.
As for other arguments to be skeptical of homeopathy the key most relevant ones are:
1) When it is subjected to rigorous testing it consistently shows itself to not be any more efficacious than placebo; and,
2) Its purported mechanisms of action are contrary to the entire body of scientific understanding with respect to chemistry, biology and physics.
More detailed arguments can be found in the UK House of Commons Report "Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy".
The main apologists for homeopathy know that they cannot provide reliable evidence to support their claims, which is why they instead focus on promoting homeopathy on the basis that it has been used for a long time or that it is used by celebrities. However, such arguments are fallacies because it does not logically follow that one should use homeopathy simply because it has been used for a long time or by famous people.
But you won't often hear this actually talked about. Homeopathy takes advantage of a scientifically and medically illiterate population that just trusts pills or liquids that say they treat something.
The whole foundation of homeopathy is based on unproven whimsy. If something does actually happen due to diluting something and shaking it, it won't be what you expect.
I also was not aware of this feature: if you wave your mouse over one of the slide images an enlargemenÂt icon appears in the lower left corner of the image. Click on it and you get a full screen slide show. Cool!
A.What is the reason that homeopathy, which is as you say such an effective method of treatment and without side-effects has not been adapted more widely and by more countries
GV. The first reason is that Homeopathy finds its greatest resistance in those countries that have strong pharmaceutical industries. On the contrary it is widely adapted in those countries with no allopathic pharmaceutical industries Such countries are India, Pakistan and most of the countries in S.America.
The second reason is that good classical homeopathy is very difficult in its learning, in its mastering. It is the most difficult system of medicine that requires a lot of time, energy and dedication on the part of the doctor in order to master it. A good education in homeopathy requires 5 to 7 years of studying.
Homeopathy takes care of the whole organism as an integral system and treats at the same time the mental the emotional and the physical disorders of the organism.
It is a medical system that sees the human beings not as machines that all need the same medicine for the same disease, but as an individual organism that needs individual attention in its therapeutic approach.
Ever wonder why?