MadCat Now I understand why your GP offered you valium. Why do I spend most of my time in the Alt Forum ~ err well I don't. Check my profile statistics !! Why do you spend your time trolling 10 x health sites ? Anyway I'll leave you to ponder over this by Associate Professor Alastair MacLennan of Adelaide University, Australia regarding a patient who almost bled to death on the operating table after neglecting to mention that she had been taking "natural" potions to "build up her strength" before the operation, including a powerful anticoagulant that nearly caused her death. To ABC Online, MacLennan said:"And lastly there's the cynicism and disappointment and depression that some patients get from going on from one alternative medicine to the next, and they find after three months the placebo effect wears off, and they're disappointed and they move on to the next one, and they're disappointed and disillusioned, and that can create depression and make the eventual treatment of the patient with anything effective difficult, because you may not get compliance, because they've seen the failure so often in the past". Go throw another shrimp on the barby and enjoy your carrot juice. BTW cherry juice does'nt help
Well for someone who doesn’t spend much time on the ALT site.....you have spent rather a loooooooong time on this post debunking most alternative treatments.
What has some poor person nearly bleeding to death got to do with any of this anyhow?
I hardly call offering my help and assistance as trolling on other forums.
Although making sly digs about a persons character does tend to be next on the ANTI alternative agenda list, so really I would not expect anything less at this stage.
I don’t eat shrimps and have not attended a barbie for almost 20 years. I have no idea whether cherry juice really helps P or not (since I cleared on carrot/orange juice), although if studies are correct, cherry juice is meant to be very good for easing the pain of arthritis/gout.
My doctor recommend anti-depressants to me because I was depressed. Although like most doctors he didn’t bother to find out why I was depressed (
being attacked and almost raped does tend to make you a teeny weeny bit depressed), he just pushed the drugs onto me. Luckily changing my diet and flower bach remedies helped with easing depression without any nasty potential side effects, another plus for alternative medicine.
Luckily I have not need to go from one alternative medicine to the next, I know what works for me and I tend to stick to it. And after 2.7 years of pretty much maintaining P clearance with diet, I very much doubt that it is the placebo effect.
BTW: I am not actually in Australia at the moment. And whether consuming carrot juice or champagne, I am bound to have a jolly and Happy New Years Eve.
Cheers.
EDITED TO ADD:
I just saw this signature on another forum and think I may have to steal it:
I am a troll. I live in a hole. I have a pet mole.
It makes no sense whatsoever, but it got me giggling.
And since I am now accused of being a trolling troll – rather perfect for my future 2011 posts.
