Homeopathy

[Fkeu'itan]

I saw this come up in a recent discussion and wanted to discuss it a little further with people without derailing things there.

In my view, homeopathy works. Not for all ailments, serious disease like malaria, cancer al that kind of area cannot be treated with positive mind alone (although, that in itself is a debate, countless people have stunned doctors by overcoming a cancer or other terminal disease when they had virtually been condemned to death by the medical world...) however, I do believe that every day ailments *can* be treated with a positive mindset and natural remedies.

Speaking from personal experience, I rarely get ill as it is, but when I do, I get it very bad indeed. I also haven't taken a paracetmol or medicine in years (except for malaria and all the required vaccines to go to where I did) but when I have gotten ill - I mean a cold, a sore throat, a headache - I have simply used a remedy like drinking some black tea with lemon and honey or just taking a rest and learning to bear it out. I believe far too many people these days are into the habit of whenever they feel something 'coming on', they instantly assume "i'm coming down with something, and it's going to be bad" and go running for the paracetemol, and they more than often do end up going down with something. My mother is a case-in-point on this one.

In a way, it opens it up to a larger debate; are we becoming to terrified of everything? Again, for me as a child, I rarely took medicine - if i'm honest, I rarely even washed my hands - but I still played in the woods, got bumps, scrapes and bruises... But I think it was that that gave me my natural resilience. It seems like nowadays, with all the "kills 99% of all known germs" products around, we're just becoming too sterile.

Any thoughts?