Clownfish, those may be your viewpoints from experience? yet I took my childrens father to an Acupuncturist [beautiful Chinese lady still practicing in her 60's to date]20 years ago suffering from migraines he had endured for 10 years prior to the 'one' visit with this Acupuncturist.

ALL cured! Not one migraine or aura after his appointment.

Either the Acupuncturist scared the hell out of him with the needles [a bloke who does not visit doctors or medical practitioners] unless an emergency, or simply 'mind over matter' or the Acupuncturist, according to other peoples success stories, did in actual fact 'cure' him of his long term migraines.

No other changes to his lifestyle were noted at all.

I have recommended many work people to this lady over 20 years, many of whom have been cured of their ailments in a short period.

I should add that there are reasons I mentioned that the Acupuncturist is a 'Chinese' lady which are the following;
(a) the Acupuncturist advertises that she follows her chinese traditions in both Acupuncture and herbal remedies and;
(b) all of the remedies have been successfully recognised and acclaimed through the Chinese centuries.

Acupuncture works

Biomed can't explain it

Patient knows better

Sorry, OT

I'm grateful to Chrys

For clarifying something

That was misconstrued

S

Yes, I agree with weareunique in that there are a FEW very talented alternative medicine practitioners around that seem to defy modern scientific reason at times.

However, I have also seen many spontaneous 'cures' or remissions that happened with no help from 'natural' medicines or conventional medicines...so how can we be sure of all these 'natural' cure claims?

Marijuana is 'natural', as are toadstools- that doesn't mean they are good for you.

Pericles, if you have high cholesterol AND at least one other medical/risk problem, such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes or family history of heart problems, strokes, or high blood pressure, then I humbly suggest you listen to your doctor.

My husband's mother dropped dead of a heart attack in a shop at age 61. Her father died young too, but the cause was unknown (long ago).
His mum never saw a doctor, and was on no medications.
My husband was found to have high cholesterol at age 44. He was slim and very active, and had a good diet.
He didn't need it treated by pills until he then developed high blood pressure at age 46.
Before then, he tried to have almost no fat in his diet and tried everything known to man to get the cholesterol levels down 'naturally'.

It was no good. He is on statins and anti-hypertensive meds now. Everything is now normal, and he is as fit as can be.

If you have any of these other problems too Pericles, please listen to your Doctor.
Or would you rather prove them 'right' and end up with even more problems that will require a vastly increased number of pills anyway?

Interesting Clownfish you assume I'm a homeopathy advocate when I largely explained the clear shortcomings of the practice in general (of which the 'water memory' is only one method).

To be fair, even though most internet discussions are nothing more than binary divisions between either the "I think it's real and we should all use it instead" crowd and the "I think its a placebo, and a scam, and should be banned" side, don't assume we all fit ourselves neatly into categories.