Medicine. It appears that the meaning and essence of it have been co-opted. Well, not totally. But that is the crux of the matter. Anything outside of, or beyond, the scope of what is considered conventional and ‘scientific’ seems open to all types of ill-will versus discussion, learning and cooperation.
Take the case of Oscillococcinum, produced by Boiron. At the company’s website the maker states it is product for headaches, body aches, chills and fever. Many who use the product know it strengthens the body and wards off what might become the flu or other similar ailment. What is wrong with that?
- Well for one, it is outside of the conventional medical paradigm.
- It is outside of the multi-billion vaccine industry
- It is outside of the flu vaccine industry, and it works (often enough)
- To date conventional medicine/science does not understand how it can work, so therefore it can’t work???
- How can there be “other” – when only my way is the right and only way.
For the record homeopaths (at least this one) have no problem stating that
homeopathic remedies above a certain potency contain no physical molecules of the original substance. This is in part accounts for the gentleness and strength of homeopathic remedies. The homeopathic remedy has its starting point in a particular substance, in this case - Anas barbariae hepatis et cordis extractum 200CK. The remedy is not prepared only from lactose or sucrose.
Will Oscillococcinum work in every single situation for every single person who feels like they are coming down with something like the flu? No. However it would do no harm in that instance. And millions of people do find that it is effective. How is that for proof?
