Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The junior doctors committee of the British Medical Association wants the National Health Service to stop paying for homeopathy treatment. Homeopathy was devised by Samuel Hahnemann who theorised that diseases can be cured by giving substances, which produce the same symptoms, diluted many hundreds of times. According to this theory the final solution is so dilute that there is no trace of the original substance but a memory remains in the water. Thus homeopathy prescribes deadly poisons such as aconite, strychnine and arsenic and claims to cure all diseases including cancer. British doctors have long argued that this is junk science and always fails the scrutiny of scientific trials. In India there is no such debate. When it comes to health even educated Indians are extremely stupid. They are unwilling to accept that many medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure cannot be cured but can be controlled very well. Thus they are willing victims of the swindlers masquerading as homeopathy specialists. These ' specialists ' never write prescriptions naming the medicines because mother tinctures are dirt cheap. Instead they give medicines without labels to patients at huge prices just enough to last a week so that they can extort as much as possible. They often give out powders, which are ground steroid tablets, and claim credit for symptomatic improvement. They always trash doctors practising western form of medicine although such doctors have undergone rigorous training while homeopaths are lying charlatans. Since law and order is a joke in India liars and cheats prosper. People die.

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