Carol, I guess I am in your school of "open-minded cynic" about these.  I am
not knocking alternative treatments altogether -- I use and recommend a
number of herbal treatments, and chiropractic changed my life (sorry DO's out
there, but it did!).  A very sensible obstetrician told me, when I was
pregnant with my first and had horrible sciatica, "I was educated that
chiropractic was quackery, but then I was educated that acupuncture was
quackery too, and that's just evidence of the narrowness of my education.  So
give it a try, as long as they don't do anything too invasive or dangerous.
And if you aren't sure about a particular treatment, beep me."

So that's kind of where I am on homeopathy now -- I can't see how it works,
and I have no experience of it working, but I know enough smart people who
think it does that I'd like to have a better explanation of how it might.

Chris, if you are sending out a reasonably good scientific or even half-way
scientific explanation of the no-molecules-in-the-dose-but-it-effects-you
aspect, please sign me up as one who would like more education.

But Carol, I don't get why you wrote so unhappily that
<< so many people . . . use homeopathy for problems only until they become
 serious, then are happy to consult the "dreaded allopathic medicine" for the
 cure they couldn't obtain otherwise. >>

If in fact homeopathy stimulates your body to heal itself better, than this
makes sense:  try using the low-danger, low-impact remedy first, and if it
isn't sufficient, go to the more-toxic but also stronger big allopathic guns.
 This is exactly the situation I want it for! --- though now that I recall I
have read you post also that you tend to go to domperidone quicker than some,
without messing about with fenugreek etc for long; so maybe this is a
consistent don't-piddle-around-with-weak-remedies philosophy with you?  I am
curious.

Myself, I don't see any of these as a religion (well, of course, some
alternative therapies really are parts of some religions, but you know what I
mean).  They are just more different tools to use for more different
situations, and I'd like to have as many as possible in my toolkit.

Elisheva Urbas
NYC

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