Posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 28, 2007, at 16:32:42
In reply to Alternative treatments, posted by Klavot on March 28, 2007, at 13:01:12
Well I meant more straightforward 'alternative' practices, like eating garlic to help heart health, taking exercise, or taking ginkgo or fish oils or eating lots of fruits and vegetables, taking vitamin supplements and yes, taking herbs.
Just because something hasn't been documented by the research literature doesn't mean it doesn't have a helpful effect. For instance, lypocene in tomatoes protects against prostate cancer - so if you're worried about that, eat more tomatoes - but this effect was only discovered relatively recently. But tomatoes have been helping people for centuries.....okay tomatoes are hardly an 'alternative' treatment, you see what I'm saying.
I'm not sure where I stand on homopathy. I think in some instances it might be useful - a friend of mine was helped a great deal by homopathy with a skin complaint - but I took some pills for warts and they didn't do a thing! It took a trip to Iceland and bathing in these hydrothermal springs to kill off a nasty wart on my thumb. Anyway I'm rambling!
Kind regards
Meri
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