FDA Warnings Against Homeopathic Medicines Part 1 of 2 A recent action alert from the Nevada Homeopathic Board says the FDA has sent warning letters to four companies that sell injectable homeopathic medicines, claiming that they “can pose a serious risk to patient health”. The FDA is in the process of completing an October 2019 …
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“I am the wisest man alive and I know one thing and that is that I know nothing.” When I read this quote from Socrates it resonated with my experience. Patients after experiencing a remarkable healing through an alternative approach such as Homeopathy will often ask why aren’t other doctors doing this. The best way …
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About three weeks ago I was watching NBC nightly news when a segment came on talking about depression in children. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry describes depression in children and teens as follows: Not only adults become depressed. Children and teenagers also may have depression, as well. More than one in seven …
Neuralgia, trigeminal (nu-ral’ji-a) [Gr. neuron, sinew, + algos, pain] is a severe sharp pain along the course of the fifth cranial nerve. Attacks are often precipitated by initiation of pain by obvious stimuli of certain hypersensitive areas of face lips, or tongue. Mayoclinic.org lists the symptoms as follows: Episodes of severe, shooting or jabbing pain …
Homeopathic history dates back to the 1830’s when Samuel Hahnemann first discovered its founding principles. It is a rich and colorful history which reveals its great curative power. In March 1929, Alfred Pulford M.D.(1863-1948) published in the Homeopathic Recorder the following case: “Case 4 is that of a special representative of the U.S. Steel Corporation, …
When I saw Irene several months ago she was complaining for 4 months of an unusual liquid draining from her ears. Even when she had cotton balls in her ears at night it would seep through and cause inflammation in the areas of her face where it stopped and dried. She had gone to four different …
The practice of Homeopathy is in 66 countries. A 2010 article in the British American Journal stated that 57% of people in Germany use Homeopathy. The same journal reported recently that German politicians were seeking the cessation of government reimbursement for Homeopathic treatment, but the German medical Association stepped in and proclaimed its support for …
According to the Washington Post the two most controversial subjects on Wikipedia are Jesus Christ and Homeopathy. Unfortunately, Wikipedia describes homeopathy as being a ‘pseudoscience’. Based on their definition a pseudoscience “is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or …
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Autopsy of Prince found that he died from an overdose of the powerful pain killer fentanyl. He is one of over 15,000 people that die each year from an overdose of prescribed narcotics. Prince’s chronic pain following hip surgery required the use of Percocet. As with all pain medications over time it became ineffective …
If low serotonin levels cause depression, why doesn’t depression lift within hours of beginning serotonin-elevating SSRI treatment: Why do depression symptoms often initially worsen with SSR treatment. Why do stressed animals with depression symptoms have high serotonin levels? In their fascinating 2015 review article, Paul W Andrews and colleagues propose that high serotonin levels – …