‘Chiropractic Economics‘ focuses on “bridging the gap between what doctors of chiropractic learn about healthcare and what they need to know as entrepreneurs who command successful, thriving practices. We are the top-rated resource for chiropractic news, marketing, consulting, financial planning, attracting and retaining patients, and motivating and managing employees. We provide information for practicing chiropractors, with a focus on office management, patient relations, personal development, financial planning, legal, clinical and research data, and wellness and nutrition.”
The magazine recently published an article that is so wonderfully overflowing with BS that I cannot resist showing you a few hilarious excerpts from it:
HOMEOPATHY IS A NATURAL FOR CHIROPRACTORS — because it works with innate intelligence. Each tiny pellet of a homeopathic remedy is like a flash drive full of information that “reinstalls the software,” i.e., it reminds the body that “you know how to have a healthy nervous system” or strong and healthy bones or muscles.
A remedy for patient malady
Homeopathic remedies have much to offer your patients:
- Fast-acting: Some patients will actually feel the effects as soon as they ingest the remedy; it works faster than herbs or vitamins
- Easily available in health food stores, some drug stores and online
- Inexpensive: pennies per dose
- No rebound or withdrawal: Your patient can discontinue it without symptoms recurring
- No drug interactions: It can work well alongside meds and supplements
- Safe: Reactions are rare and serious side effects are unknown.1
Practitioners will benefit as well from recommending homeopathy as this unusual modality will set the chiropractor apart and patients will be grateful for the relief they feel. Homeopathy is available as single remedies, plus more unusual ones are also blended into combination formulas which chiropractors may choose to stock in their office, just as they stock nutritional supplement and glandular formulas.
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How does it work?
Homeopathy is totally safe because there is nothing in it — not even one molecule of its original starting substance — yet it is powerful and fast-acting. How can we make these contradictory claims? Because it is information technology.
The manufacturing process imprints the healing information onto water like recording onto a flash drive. The process takes the starting substance through many stages of dilution (making it safe) and potentizes or energizes it at each step (making it powerful). Water behaves differently at these very high dilutions, becoming coherent or structured, as explained by the newly emerging field of ultra-high dilution physics. Two Nobel laureates have testified that their studies explain how homeopathy works.2
Now let’s look at some specific remedies.
Hypericum for the nervous system
Hypericum is almost a universal remedy for nerve-related symptoms: tingling and numbness, pain shooting along a nerve, and trauma to nerve-rich areas (like hitting a finger with a hammer or slamming it in a car door):
- Arnica for soft tissue trauma: homeopathy’s best-known remedy, Arnica is good for sore muscles, pulled muscles, sports injuries, sprains and strains, and bruising.
- Symphytum for fractures: This is the well-known herbal remedy comfrey, known traditionally as “knit-bone,” used to speed the healing of fractures and reduce bone pain.
- Bryonia for joints that hurt to move. When your patient is splinting or guarding, think bryonia, for a bruised rib that makes it painful to laugh or cough or sneeze, or knees that hurt from walking that make the patient take cautious steps.
- Rhus tox for “rusty gate” joints: This is for your patient who needs to limber up when first getting out of bed, or who needs to swing their leg a few times to loosen it up before getting up from a chair.
- Ruta grav. for connective tissue, cartilage and joints in general: sprains and strains, cracking joints, torn tendons and ligaments, and fascia. It has a special affinity for the knee, like the knee that goes out from under someone and for Baker’s cysts.
Three homeopathically-energized minerals to strengthen and heal bone need to be given in a special 6x potency and are known as cell salts or tissue salts:
- Calcarea fluorica (Calc. fluor.) 6x to soften and dissolve: This remedy can help dissolve bone spurs and hardened or condensed tissues like cataracts.
- Calcarea phosphorica (Calc. phos.) 6x to deposit minerals in the bones: This provides the template to send calcium and other minerals to bones and not deposit them elsewhere in the body.
- Silicea 6x strengthens bone as well as hair, skin and nails; you know silica as a supplement, and as a homeopathic remedy it provides the instructions for silica the mineral to go where it is needed. However, Silica 30c (full strength) can push foreign objects out of the body and should not be given to patients with a rod or plate and screws.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Not much — an “overdose” in homeopathy is not harmful in the long run — in fact, too much of a remedy is pushing the patient too fast in the direction of cure and the long-term result can be positive. It can be uncomfortable in the short run, though.
The body can only process so much of the remedy’s information at once, and if the body is presented with more than it can handle, it pushes back in the form of increased symptoms, the same symptoms the remedy was intended to treat. This is called an “aggravation” in homeopathy. It’s often said that “You have to get worse before you get better” in homeopathy and this is absolutely not true as long as mild to moderate doses are used (the typical 30c dose in health food stores) and the patient is told to stop if the remedy starts to feel too intense. When in doubt, it’s always safe to stop the remedy and start again later.
The bottom line
Start by recommending these few remedies and you are likely to get good feedback from your patients. Or consider stocking combination remedies that include even more unusual remedies.
They may give even better results and keep patients coming back to you for more, since they are only available through professionals. And if you’re feeling exhausted beyond repair, try some Sepia for yourself.
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Yes, this is what a ‘top rated’ chiropractic resource mistakes for information on ‘clinical and research data, and wellness and nutrition’!
I didn’t promise too much, did I?
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Hard to imagine anything with a higher Drivel Quotient.
What are the two references at Note 2, that purport to explain “how homeopathy works”?
GOOD QUESTION
in truely scientific style, the author only puts numbers in the text but fails to provide references at the end.
That’s wonderful.
Them is homeopathic references! There may not be actual text there, but the information absolutely is!
This is a well known scam trick as proved here (3) and here (5).
I think that the “[t]wo Nobel laureates” are most likely Jacques Benveniste and Brian Josephson. But I don’t imagine I’m the only one thinking that.
From that, it shouldn’t be hard to find the papers that I think are being referred to.
I hadn’t thought of Josephson. I’d vaguely imagined Jacques Benveniste and Luc Montagnier. I wasn’t really aware of Josephson, though I think I did once try to watch a video by him on YouTube.
I think you’re right about it being Montagnier rather than Josephson, as suggested by the quote that Pete Attkins cites below.
The author who omitted the references, Burke Lennihan, wrote in the forward to a book[1]:
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How, then, do these nanodoses work? They convey both information and energy to the body’s Vital Force through electromagnetic waves like the energy waves described in this book. While this may sound “woo-woo,” it is not. It is at the cutting edge of physics, in particular a new branch called ultrahigh dilution physics. The electromagnetic effects of these ultrahigh dilutions were described by Nobel Laureate Dr. Luc Montagnier. In an interview with Science that shocked the scientific community, Montagnier asserted that his research shows how homeopathy works. He added, “The high dilutions [used in homeopathy] are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules.” 2
END OF QUOTE [my bolding]
Reference 2 isn’t provided in that forward, so I’ve provided it below followed by the section that contains the quoted text.
References
1. Becky Chambers. Homeopathy Plus Whole Body Vibration: Combining Two Energy Medicines Ignites Healing. Forward: Burke Lennihan on Homeopathy
https://bcvibranthealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hpwbv-forward-lennihan.pdf
2. Martin Enserink. French Nobelist Escapes ‘Intellectual Terror’ to Pursue Radical Ideas in China.
Science 330, 1732-1732(2010).
DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6012.1732
They do not work at all. We all ingest ‘nanodoses’ of myriads of different substances all the time without any effects whatsoever. There is no reason to believe that some of these nanodoses can do something special after a bit of a shake-up.
… which has never been proven to exist …
… which has also never been proven to exist …
… which again has never been proven to exist …
… which are also not proven to exist as described.
Oh yes it is.
… and dismissed by all other scientists as nonsense. Montagnier’s articles on the subject were never peer-reviewed, and considered unscientific rubbish for being exceedingly vague; also, his experiments in this area were never replicated – in fact could not be replicated because he never produced a detailed description of his experimental setup.
“Safe: Reactions are rare and serious side effects are unknown.1”
“Two Nobel laureates have testified that their studies explain how homeopathy works.2”
References 1 & 2 don’t appear to be provided, unless I missed them.
That magazine article brought to mind the British informal saying: that’s a load of old codswallop.
I think your scepticism is totally unjustified.
Homeopathy is even more powerful than they claim – so powerful you don’t even need to take it! Just reading about it is enough. My proof – I woke up this morning feeling a bit fed up. I read this post and by the end I couldn’t stop laughing.
How much more proof do you need?
This is a very interesting and possibly useful observation.
Had you read it in print on paper, one could have suggested a material effect from volatile solvents in the printing ink.
But since you read it online on a computer screen in the form of patterns of emitted and not-emitted light, we are immediately in the realms of photons, taking us straight into quantum physics, and we know what funny things quanta are.
As SCAM practitioners are wont to say, “It works at the quantum level”……..
Hence the development of:
“A quantum dot display is a display device that uses quantum dots (QD), semiconductor nanocrystals which can produce pure monochromatic red, green, and blue light.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot_display
It even has “nanotechnology” and “materials science” !
“Quantum dots (QDs) – also called semiconductor nanocrystals, are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size, having optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles as a result of quantum mechanics. They are a central topic in nanotechnology and materials science.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot
Perhaps it will establish quantum entanglement between the homeopathist’s mind and their client’s mind. I’m not sure which party would end up the more deeply disturbed after such a mind meld.
‘Chiropractic Economics‘ focuses on “bridging the gap between what doctors of chiropractic learn about healthcare and what they need to know as entrepreneurs who command successful, thriving practices. We are the top-rated resource for chiropractic news, marketing, consulting, financial planning, attracting and retaining patients, and motivating and managing employees. We provide information for practicing chiropractors, with a focus on office management, patient relations, personal development, financial planning, legal, clinical and research data, and wellness and nutrition.”
The irony here is that DCs need these practice-enhancing services to stimulate business. Scientifically oriented health care practitioners neither need nor utilize such services. Chiros, though, probably couldn’t stay in business without them.