clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I personally believe that there is a role for medical science and organic treatment. Vitamins like C and D are incredibly important to our immune systems which is the main way we beat viruses. Things like lemon, and garlic are incredibly potent at providing these as well as anti bacterial proprieties so I certainly think they can play a role in being healthy.
In fact after having covid in April and being worried about the lingering cough I rang 111 and the NHS nurses recommendation was to make a drink of hot water, lemon with the rind on, garlic and ginger and it did wonders at helping to clear the wheezing.
I couldn’t really claim to be any sort of authority on homeopathic medicine beyond that so won’t argue in its favour but I’m certainly open minded enough to believe that in the millions of years of mankind that there were natural medicines that helped people with illness.
I'm not sure even a "mainstream" scientist would think that Vitamins aren't important to your health.
As for homeopathy, it isn't a "natural medicine". It's a complete and utter scam developed in the late 1700s that's enabled even your high street chemist to prey on the gullible.
It's three principles:
1) A punch in the face cures a punch in the face.
2) You have to dilute the punch in the face in water to a degree that the punch in the face is undetectable. In fact you pay more for medicines where there is less punch in the face. When I say "less" I mean less than nothing.
3) it "works" because water has a memory. If water has a "memory", you'd never drink water again, unless you have constipation of course and buy a homeopathic remedy that has remembered someone else's turds.