Alternative Therapies

[FreoDocker]

At the moment Iam writing a psych paper on Alternative Therapies and why people would choose to use them. I thought I would come on here to ask if anyone has ever used alternative medical therapies such as crystal therapy.

If you have what convinced you to start using that treatment?
Have you been using it for a long period of time?
Have people challenged you for using this method of treatment?

Alternatively if you haven't used any forms of alternative therapy, what are your views on the issue?

Thanks in Advance

 

[evade28]

havent used it, but think it may give ppl false hope with all these supposed 'miracle' stories.

 

[Portia]

Is drinking tea an alternative therapy?

 

[Generalissimo]

Don't believe everything Tetley's tells you, Porthos.

 

[Nic]

My aunt's into the crystals, chakras sort of cra ... uh, stuff. My mum also uses reiki on some of her oldies (she's an aged care nurse). Personally I think it's all rubbish.

 

[Milkman]

I can assure you that both Chinese medicine and Homeopathy (when done properly) have worked on me, and i'm one of the biggest cynics you're likely to meet. I go on results, and that's where i've had the best ones.

 

[Uncle Steve]

Originally posted by FreoDocker
Alternatively if you haven't used any forms of alternative therapy, what are your views on the issue?

Can you say "placebo effect"?

 

[Port1978]

Don't have a problem with alternative therapies. They can be very useful, as long as people take them as a complimentary therapy & not just as something instead of instead of what their doctor told them to.

 

[Milkman]

Originally posted by port1978
Don't have a problem with alternative therapies. They can be very useful, as long as people take them as a complimentary therapy & not just as something instead of instead of what their doctor told them to.

But keep in mind that most western doctors are completely uneducated when in comes to alternative therapies and will nearly always recommend against them. Don't ever take your doctors word as bible.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by Porthos
Is drinking tea an alternative therapy?

TEA? What kind of Port supporter are you? Get a cask of goon FFS.

 

[crowsfan]

Alternative therapies work on some people and not on others. The problem is that there aren't any clinical trials done on alternative therapies, at least no where to the extent of trials on conventional drugs (e.g. for hypertension, hyperlipidemia), so it's not really known how a lot of them work etc. Thus alternative therapies can't really be analysed and compared to Western Medicine.

Another thing is alternative therapies are usually a lot more expensive than non-alternative drugs.

 

[crowsfan]

Originally posted by Milkman
But keep in mind that most western doctors are completely uneducated when in comes to alternative therapies and will nearly always recommend against them. Don't ever take your doctors word as bible.

I think this is due to the fact that there aren't much, if any, clinical trials conducted on alternative therapies.

If you can't take the word of your doctor (who does have a medical degree), whose word can you take??

 

[evade28]

Originally posted by crowsfan
If you can't take the word of your doctor (who does have a medical degree), whose word can you take??

pfft. how many misdiagnoses are there everyday?

 

[Mobbs]

The only problem I have with alternative and traditional therapies co-existing is when people say that an alternative therapy is ok as long as its looked at as complimentary.

So as long as gutting you for the wholesale sake of the pharmaceutical dollar is ok, then I guess its alright to treat the few organs left with actual intent to resolve the issue.

 

[crowsfan]

Originally posted by evade28
pfft. how many misdiagnoses are there everyday?

I honestly do not know. If you know the answer, please let us know and the source of your answer.

Of course there will be misdiagnoses made, that is only expected because doctors are humans and all humans make mistakes.

And also on that point, what other profession can make qualified medical diagnoses, and how many misdiagnoses a day do these profesionals make?

 

[Dipper]

Re: Re: Alternative Therapies

Originally posted by Uncle Steve
Can you say "placebo effect"?

Yes the good old placebo effect, it's the one that orthodox doctors bring out for anything they don't understand.


But I ask you this if I go to see my Dr & he gives me some medication for my complaint & it doesn't clear it up but then the alternative stuff does why didn't my subconsious get the 'placebo' effect from his stuff.


And what about farmers who administer homeopathy to their animals & get good results (let's face it farmers are hardly likely to persevere with it if it doesn't work) is this the placebo affect?Did the animals believe in it so much that it made it work?

The bottom line is if I go to see a practitioner because I want a certain condition cured & he/she does whatever & the complaint clears up then it's QED, it doesn't really matter about the why's & wherefores anyway does it?

 

[evade28]

Originally posted by crowsfan
I honestly do not know. If you know the answer, please let us know and the source of your answer.

Of course there will be misdiagnoses made, that is only expected because doctors are humans and all humans make mistakes.

And also on that point, what other profession can make qualified medical diagnoses, and how many misdiagnoses a day do these profesionals make?

youre the one tossing on about how u should TRUST ur doctor. well yeh, usually i do, but if i think hes talking crap i get a second opinion.

 

[littleMAGPIEkid]

Originally posted by Docker_Brat
TEA? What kind of Port supporter are you? Get a cask of goon FFS.

GOON IS THE DRINK OF GODS....CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT...wouldnt mind sharing a goon bag with a port supporter on saturday....it would be a vicious affair i tell you what