What idiocy, once again this "doctor" gets it all backwards.
Claiming Jobs' cancer couldn't be cured, contrary to the opinion of all medical professionals involved, based on third hand gossip reporting, just ridiculous. When biopsied and scanned, it was said to be curable (not 100% of the time, but normally), but not later after he tried to cure it with veganism rather than get real medical attention, like an idiot, by which time it had spread and was no longer treatable. That was just stupid. Being intelligent does not preclude one from being stupid...trust me.
His wife and doctors absolutely had the right answers if he wanted to try to survive.
He deluded himself with magical vegan thinking, believing he could get enough high quality proteins from vegetables, and clearly even with all the money in the world to buy the best plant proteins, he could not, and so he also suffered from wasting syndrome. He also believed plant based herbal remedies would cure him, they don't.
Jobs said clearly he regretted his actions, and also said charlatans like this would make stuff up about it, and he was right.

>> ^burdturgler:
Making fun of people who "believe" in homeopathy feels like disinformation to me. Turn them all into loons so that no one demands alternatives. Most drugs are derivatives of plants, herbs, trees etc. They were all "homeopathic" at one point. If he said "isolate the salicylic acid from the bark of a willow tree" that would sound funny too. Unfortunately now it takes upwards of a billion dollars to get something through the FDA. I don't know what that answer is, we can't have people selling dangerous and ineffective crap, but that doesn't mean that everything "homeopathic" doesn't work.


You're talking about Naturopathy... herbs have effects, yes... it is plausible.

The thing about Homeopathy though, is that if it's truly homeopathic according to the rules set down when it was invented... there really is no way it could work. Any active ingredients are diluted to the point that there is only water left.

Some products are labeled homeopathic, but actually have enough drugs in there to still do something. The only difference, then, between these falsely-labeled homeopathic treatments, herbal remedies, and the drugs you get from your pharmacy is that the homeopathic treatments and herbs are "alternative" and therefore, not regulated for safety by the FDA. Given the choice, I would go with the mainstream drugs which have been tested more thoroughly.

Zicam users recently fell afoul of a dearth of safety testing. Zicam was falsely labeled homeopathic, but it actually had measurable levels of zinc in it. People shot it up their nose and lost their sense of smell.

I'm sorry, rougy, you're conflating homeopathy with acupuncture and herbal remedies. Homeopathy is a complete and utter scam from top to bottom.

Acupuncture, at best, is a placebo. No one has be able to demonstrate that it works as advertised.

And of course there are herbs that work and "natural" substances that work. And there's things like ground tiger penis that do not work. But it has little to do with homeopathy.

>> ^Xaielao:
Herbal remedies clearly are not going to bring a dying man from a car accident back to perfect health, but they do work for a great many other 'non-life threatening' ailments.


Homeopathy has nothing to do with herbal remedies. Homeopathy is a complete and utter fraud on every level.

As far as "herbs" go, sure there are some that work. Marijuana, for example. But these so called natural remedies are not inherently better than man made ones.

Herbal remedies clearly are not going to bring a dying man from a car accident back to perfect health, but they do work for a great many other 'non-life threatening' ailments.

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qualm, an infusion of black cohash, blue cohash and pennyroyal tea is an "herbal remedy"

ps. how nice for you that you can just phone up a family member for some medical advice, but for the rest of the viewing audience... my recommendation remains the same: seek the help of a health care professional before you go messing around with your (or the person you love's) uterus... which really, is the only point I have been trying to make... My 2 cents, as all I wanted to do was state the obvious when it comes to mucking about in that area of a woman's anatomy, which is to exercise caution, you only get one uterus, and you can't grow another, be kind to it.

But anyway qualm, I'm done arguing with you about this- and frankly, you can take your own uber defensive and toxic attitude and stick it wherever it is you derive the most pleasure... in the future, I promise to try my hardest to ignore your antics about the sift, and spare you any of my 'patronizing attitude'.

lol. Funny, but I've re-read my post a few times now and I still can't find any general endorsement of herbal remedies there. Maybe I'm just not reading carefully enough. What I did testify to was the fact that one particular concoction - black cohash, blue cohash and pennyroyal tea - works, and I've seen it work half a dozen times. I was putting this out there for women who aren't comfortable with the surgical abortion option, which as you may know can be quite traumatic and painful.

Both my parents are doctors, btw. One sister is a doctor. And my grandfather. So just try to guess what you can do with your assumptions.

All I am saying qualm, is that personal experience (experimentation of my own and I even worked in a natural health store for a few years) has led me to doubt most herbal remedies... yes they can be helpful additions to a person's general health regime etc etc, might even help cure or alleviate some basic stuff like the common cold... but as for relying upon herbally induced early term abortions as an effective method of birth control versus seeking out the advice of an actual health care professional, seems kind of cavalier, especially considering the complicated nature of a woman's reproductive system.

Which brings me back to my firsthand experience with this... while working at said natural health store, I saw just about every sort of 'natural' birth control method ever invented, be they herbs, or counting one's cycle, or whatever and heard lots of women who bought into it say over and over again how wonderful it all was... but you know what the common thread was that tied them all together? They all had a lot of kids. Not, in my mind, a stellar endorsement for such things.

I'm sorry you can't take criticism for something qualm, but you're just going to have to accept that maybe, just maybe, not everyone agrees with you.

Oh sure, there are plenty of 'herbal remedies' for pregnancy... parsley, mugwort, the seeds from Queen Anne's Lace... but really qualm, I wouldn't go depending on stuff like that as an answer to all your troubles. Seek out the help of a medical professional.

Remember that homeopathy has little to no relation with herbal medicine. Herbal medicine is things like arnica and willow bark that have all been turned into pharmaceuticals. Willow bark has the same active ingredient as Aspirin, Foxglove as Lanoxin, Poppy as Codeine, Valerian root as Valium, etc. The pharmaceuticals are refined and have controlled dosages, but are not necessarily better and may miss other balancing ingredients found in the natural source. Homeopathy is as described in the video. To cure anthrax, take some anthrax and mix it with enough water to fill the solar system. And you thought bottled water was a scam. So this video is in no way debunking arnica or other herbal remedies.

I do not know, but from the video I gather that homeopathy started in europe. The church stopped anything that actually worked, so they had to resort to things like this. Herbal medicine comes from everywhere else. In europe you were burned as a witch for practicing herbal medicine.