I'm not sure that the kind of principles holistic medicine relies on is just 'pure water'... For a lot of the remedies, they contain naturally occuring substances like vitamin c or zinc that encourages the body's natural defence mechanisms. Vitamins and minerals that the body actually thrives on to fight illnesses. Surely it doesn't matter if you take a pill or drink a certain drink to get these minerals, as the human body utilises them both just the same. In which case, neither is more sucessful than the other.

Surely you're not going to claim that the only way the human body can get what it needs to fight off disease is through a pill...?

Also, if this is indeed the case, why do we need modern medicine for the everyday occurences at all? (I'll say again that I do agree that with the threat of more serious disease, more 'engineered' principles are needed to treat them.)

(Also, as a side note, it seems that a lot of people's personal bias is slipping into the debate on both sides in terms of many different issues also creeping in at the sides. We should be focussing on whether homeopathy works and why, not how medicine companies are profiteering, arguing about tolerance of principles, how we'd all be doomed without science or throwing vaguely slanderous comments at each other.)

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