The commoners are fooled once again by so called ancient medicine. As in similar cases, this is leading seriously ill patients away from medicine that has been proven effective by false hopes of a miracle cure. CNN.com writes in a story today that "The president of Gambia says his ancestors revealed to him in a dream the cure for AIDS." His health minister defended this bogus cure, saying "I can swear, 100 percent, that this herbal medication His Excellency is using is working. It has the potency to treat and cure patients infected with the HIV-virus."
Unfortunately, it is not just naive Gambians that are conned into believing this nonsense. Millions of Americans by into the nonsense of "traditional Chinese medicine" and so-called "homeopathic medicine", which is no more than water with trace amounts of some so-called active ingredient.
My friends, this is nonsense, bogus fairytale with no scientific support that passes as medicine only by the deceptive tactics of those who have made themselves to be "authorities" in such matters. Perhaps this exposure by CNN will wake up some folk.
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My, what broad sweeping statements you make! (Yes, of course I think you are wrong.) This silly dream of His Excellency's is truely silly. But ALL homeopathic medicine??? Really, Bop, I don't think you can go that far! Try again.
Thanks to my only reader for catching me on my use of the word "Homeopathy". I actually intended to use it with it's literal meaning, which is "like disease". True homeopathic medicine is based on the idea that a substance that normally produces symptoms like the sickness in healthy people will actually restore health in a sick person when given in very dilute, trace quantities. What most people refer to as homeopathic medicine is actually herbal medicine, which to some extent, can be effective if one can actually find a product that contains the actual herb and not just sugar pills.
That is why you just use the true food, not pills! Right?
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