An article entitled “Homeopathy for worm infestations in children’s” caught my eye. Here is the un altered abstract:
Unusual sorts of worms can be there in a child’s stomach and may initiate several health complications such as pain, infection etc. To treat worm infections, one must identify about various categories of worms, and after understanding the kind of infection induced by the worm’s the treatment for the babies or children can planned. There are various Homeopathic medicines available which be used to treat worm infections without any side effects on the health of the children’s. In this paper we have discussed how the worm infection has been treated at our homeopathic research institute.
In the paper itself, the author, Dr. AK Dwivedi (Professor and H.O.D, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, SKRP Guajarati Medical College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India), explains:
Homeopathic do not take care of just the disease, but is prescribed on the base of physical, emotional and genetic condition of a person. Homeopathic medicines act on both the mental and physical levels of individuals. Homeopathy is a natural and mild system of medicines that utilizes minute doses of well-researched remedies to improve the body’s natural curing procedure. Homeopathic medicines originate from substances that come’s from plants, minerals & animals.
The author’s conclusion is equally impressive:
On the basis of our research and after analysing the patients after medication we have found that homeopathy can completely cure the worm infection, If the dosages are properly prescribed and taken on that basis of investigation reports from time to time under guidance of experienced Homeopathic Physician worm infection can be treated with homeopathy effectively.
Yes, this level of incompetence could be quite funny! But sadly, it is also quite concerning. Most worm infestations are easily treated with effective conventional therapies. Untreated, they can have serious consequences. To advocate homeopathy – which is of course ineffective – is irresponsible, unethical and arguably criminal, in my view.
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Homeopathy is a crime. The Indian government is organized crime. But we can not complain too much, because our very own government is not better.
The key to defeating such crime is the power over government and legal system. The big block in the road to justice is the legal system. Attacking the homeopaths and other criminal does not lead far, because they are supported by the legal systems, and, of course by stupid and/or paid politicians.
The fish stinks from the head.
Lectures of Indian homeopaths are frequently praised and sold as top quality CME-events by Austrian homeopathic societies. Not enough with this disgrace, the Austrian Medical Association approves them as being eligible for CME-points, e.g.
https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=776540
https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=776936
https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=786299
The last lecturer https://hpathy.com/author/gauranghg/ tells us about homeopathy against Duchenne muscle dystrophy, autoimmunethyroidits, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetes mellitus:
https://hpathy.com/clinical-cases/case-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy/
https://hpathy.com/clinical-cases/case-autoimmune-thyroiditis/
https://hpathy.com/clinical-cases/retinitis-pigmentosa-in-a-woman-of-25/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krnzxqVvFc0
Apparently there is no control of the scientific content of events by the authorities approving eligibility for CME-points. Fish head odor applies here, too….
yes, that sounds scandelous!
I think Homeopathy is amazing.
I agree: it’s amazing that a treatment so obviously nonsensical and ineffective survives 220 years still finding enthusiastic advocates.
We can top that with gemstone-therapy. Already the Old Romans knew that the powers of gemstones were a delusion.
“The vain superstition of the magicians,” writes Pliny the Elder, “promises that these stones counteract intoxication, and hence they have their name, and further that if one inscribes the names of the moon and the sun on them and wears them around the neck together with the hair of a dog-headed monkey and the feathers of a swallow, they also protect against poisonous mixtures; indeed, they could help one to gain access to kings, and also to ward off hail and locusts. The magicians wrote this down, I think, not without contempt and derision for the human race.”
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
http://ariplex.com/ama/ama_edel.htm
2000 years wasted. For some fairy tales.
The intelligence of the people is horribly overestimated.