Homeopathy – natural treatment for H1N1
by John Yeo, 17 Nov 2009
The Straits Times in Singapore today (17/11/09) carried a photo of the Health Minister getting the H1N1 vaccine shot. My colleague James Ong had written to him two weeks ago to warn him of the dangers of vaccination. Obviously he has either not received the letter or he has great faith in the medical system. Like everyone else, we are led to think that the vaccine is completely safe and effective.
I am so glad he has not made the vaccine compulsory for the general population. However, I am not sure if certain front line professions like nurses and NS men are effectively not given the choice not to receive the vaccine. According to a survey by the French national union of professionally qualified nurses, 65% of all nurses in France will refuse the vaccine over safety concerns.
However, the public is scared, thanks to the media and the way public health organisations have painted the picture. What should we do? Nothing really, if you dare. Many prominent doctors have been saying that H1N1 is just another flu with relatively mild symptoms. However, fear has been put into everybody’s mind that what if the virus mutates and the symptoms become worse?
For this, we can look towards the experience of the last major influenza pandemic of 1918. Hundreds of million of people were affected severely, with total deaths estimated at between 20 million and 100 million. This was a real pandemic, not the one declared by World Helath Organisation (WHO) which is a “technical” pandemic. Here, the numbers are there but the symptoms and death rates lack the seriousness to warrant the emotive word “PANDEMIC”. Many are still questioning why the WHO was so eager to press the panic button.
An article published in the Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy May, 1921 recorded some statistics. (Julian Wilson Archives)
Dr. T A McCann, Ohio reported a death rate of 28.2 percent in 24,000 cases of flu treated with conventional medicine. Another group of 26,000 patients suffered only 1 percent death rate when treated with homeopathic medicine. This success rate was repeated in another situation. A Dean WA Pearson of Philadelphia Hahnemann College reported that of 26,795 cases of flu treated with homeopathic medicine, only 1 percent death rate was recorded.
Homeopathic medicine are made mainly from plants and minerals and diluted many times. The homeopath matches the individualized symptoms of the patient to the characteristics of the medicine in a “like cure like” manner. The medication stimulates the immune system of the patient to deal naturally and effectively with the flu.
In conventional medicine, drugs are used to kill the virus or bacteria. It is hoped that by killing off enough of the bugs, the disease will leave the body. If not, a stronger dose will be administered. Often, such “strong arm” tactics can succeed in killing off the disease but leave the patient weak and vulnerable to other complications.
Those who choose to treat illnesses with drugs are basically opting for the “strong arm” approach. As shown in history, more than one in four influenza patients eventually died using this kind of approach. Those who choose to treat influenza with homeopathy suffered only one death in 100. The choice is yours to make, provided the people in power allow that choice.
Tags: H1N1
Posted on November 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Yes, Homeopathy certainly had a very high success rate in the 1918 Spanish flu, as well as in recent years when drug-resistant strains of many “old” diseases like TB etc have made a comeback.
See http://www.flu-treatments.com/homeopathic-medicine.html to learn more about homeopathy’s track record in the 1918 Spanish flu.
Surprisingly, osteopathy and chiropractic – which involves adjusting the body’s structure and is more often associated with treating aches and pain – also had a very high success rate during the 1918 Spanish flu. As with homeopathy, the death rate for osteopathy and chiropractic patients was also below 1 percent. I will post about this later.
Posted on December 10th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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