Treating Ebola with Homeopathy

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

http://blogs.naturalnews.com/treating-ebola-homeopathy/

[joe_bloggs*]

I don't know about anyone else but it's put me off eating fruit bats for life

[saasher2012]

So it should,your more likely to contract Rabies!

[suzieseaside]

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@tommy.irene wrote:

Saasher.....homeopathic treatments do have a place,I believe in it ..Irene is going through the Menopause and our Doctor told us the Drugs that people take can cause Cancer..So he put her on FLAVIA which is a herbal drug and it seems to be working well for her..

https://www.google.es/search?q=FLAVIA&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...

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Herbal medicines are not the same as homeopathic medicines, although there seems to be a lack of distinction between what is homeopathic these days.  There is no reason why herbal medicines should not work - they actually have an ingredient in them.  I believe that Homeopathic traditionally meant that the active ingredient is so diluted that often no molecules of it remain in the medicine, but it is supposed to work because the diluting substance retains a 'memory' of the substance.  At that sort of dilution where no active ingredient remains, science cannot explain how it could possibly work apart from a placebo effect.

If water can retain a memory of what it has been in contact with then goodness knows what people are taking in who live in the London area where water is taken out of the Thames. It passes through people, goes throught the treatments works and back into the Thames.  The water you drink in the Thames area has already passed through (on average) about 7 people and will have been in contact with a vast amount of different chemical substances before you drink it.

It all seems a bit confusing though because some treatments labelled as 'homeopathic' do contain actual active ingredients, and so they may work.  They can also have side effects too, so are not all necesarily safe unless well regulated.

[saasher2012]

All very well in theory but in practise if a substance is there it's not been found as yet or it would be readily available surely?
& if it is being used then thousands of people that have died are testament to it being ineffective

[suzieseaside]

I'm not aware of any cure for Ebola although I'm sure scientists are working at it.

There are claims of various cures all over the internet, such as soy products, caffeine, a female hormone, an African tree seed, large doses of Vit C etc. , but who knows.

I am sceptical about claims put forward by companies selling alternative medicines and food supplements– plenty of them are scams.

e.g. of ‘cures’:

1) http://www.naturecures.co.uk/herbcureslist.htm#Bitter_Kola

Bitter Kola (Garcinia kola)
“Is a medium sized tree that is common to central Africa. Its seeds are used as medicine throughout the area and can cure Ebola and has anti-cancer properties and works against many viruses, including the flu. Unfortunately this tree is a rare species which is on the endangered species list so acquiring the seeds may be nigh on impossible.”

That makes no sense – full of contradictions.

2) http://www.infowars.com/what-theyre-not-telling-you-4-natural-ways-to-fight-ebola/

3) Big doses of Vitamin C

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/natural_cures/ebola-virus-thomas-levy-1095.html

This company (which claims ‘scientific solutions + proven results’) recommends 1 to 5 g of Vitamin C a day.

1gram or more would give people diarrhoea - hardly something to recommend for people who are either ill or healthy.

And this statement seems highly irresponsible to me:

“You have the tools to prevent a virus like Ebola from ever setting up shop in your body. And if your prevention should fall short, resolution and cure is a simple process”

Oh really .... 

[bankhaunter]

Infowars, always good for a laugh

The thing about all the quack remedies is how the proponents claim that doctors are all part of a conspiracy to support the big pharmacutical companies and make lots of money.

Do they really imagine that every one of the umpteen thousand doctors are all in it together, don't care about their patients and whether they get better or not, that they actually want them to be sick?