cursuswalker wrote:phill.stonehenge wrote:Perhaps I should ignore the fact that gelsemium 30c homoeopathic pills helped my bout of swine flu, Or was it my imagination ?, Perhaps that is what they rely on "ones mind"???
Peace & blessings.
Phill/|\
It doesn't have to have been your imagination to still qualify as only anecdotal evidence.
To illustrate this, let's call your experience and mine a study: I took Tamiflu and a homeopathic remedy (out of curiosity)and was still ill for a month from complications. You took a homeopathic remedy and recovered quickly.
Is that a large enough sample size to be able to draw any conclusions?
No.
Logically, nobody really knows the effect of Tamiflu for starters and how it reacts with susceptible individuals. They rather rushed it into doctors' surgeries, and then a few weeks later there were rumblings about maybe it shouldn't be prescribed to children because of adverse reactions. So that's one unknown factor.
Plus then there's individual susceptibility - like you, CW, if I get anything like a fluey bug it usually ends up causing problems with my airways for a while afterwards. Phill, however, may not be similarly affected - or afflicted, whatever. Further, there are yet other factors such as the individual's acceptance (or otherwise) of the need to rest in bed and convalesce - or, alternatively, the need to push oneself through illness in order to get work done (which might be somewhat adverse to what the body actually needs to repair itself).
Too many variables.
As I have said, individual reactions to any form of medicine are somewhat of a creatively unknown factor in the dynamics of healing. Some people get miraculous cures by visiting sacred springs such as Lourdes, after all - but nobody's going to a) test the claims on that or b) invest in air flights and add to their carbon footprint by using that as a day to day alternative to medical science.
Nihil timendum est
