Well, FF, if you think a homeopath can't tell the difference between assessing the case in an acute presentation and assessing a case of chronic disease, well, what can I say. If a homeopath can't do it, well, then NO doctor can.
Simple powers of observation will reveal: massive discoloration from hemorrhage, severe shortness of breath, great pain, maybe paralysis, a puncture wound. Among other symptoms, which may not be completely important at this time (like, for example, asking the patient if they like the window open, which I hoped I wouldn't have had to STATE is irrelevant to the case taking at hand). Asking the patient may bring: "I've been bitten by a crotalus (or whatever kind of) snake". Or, the patient may simply be muttering constantly and won't be able to answer your questions. Or, the patient may be unconscious. (If the patient's still walking in, it was bitten by a snake whose poison works through the circulatory system. Those bites are far more easy to survive without ant-venin, and can actually be treated by "cut and suck" and keeping the patient still. That's just an aside).
There. You have your whole case--and this goes not only for homeopaths, but for EVERY ONE who would prescribe ANYTHING. After that, the least amount of training as a homeopath will allow you to zero in on some good remedies to use.
If you hit the similimum--bingo: life saved instantly. If you hit a "close enough-icum", that's great too. Life saved, without anti-venin, but possibly with a few days recuperation.
You may have to give some other remedies. But you'll have plenty of time to decide which ones, cause the patient will be alive.
I think the thing you missed is that anti-venin is not useful in all snake bites. It is useless, for example, in bites from snakes whose poison affects the nervous system. So your statement:
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Modern anti-venoms are guaranteed (italics are mine)[b] to save a life under most conditions. In our clinic, free anti-venom treatment was offered to any victim and it had a success rate of over 98%. It was saidthat anyone who walks in alive and not-fainted, will walk out alive
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Really doesn't say anything concrete (that missing, dead 2%; and what about the "fainted" patients--are they down because breathing has stopped? Is there massive hemorrhage? If so, anti-venin will be useless). I also have a bit of a hard time believing anti-venin is offered free of charge; a vial of it here in Toronto can cost over $700, and it often takes several vials to "treat" one snake bite. Now, we don't have a lot of cobras in Canada, but we do have the Mississauga Rattle snake, whose venom actually attacks the nervous system. Anti-venin really has little effect there, and its application is usually done with other "heroic" lifesaving measures. No guarantee about anti-venin life saving is ever made where I live.
Also, its not always on hand--has to be ordered and made up as needed because of its expense. So so much for relying on that.
I think its pretty clear, FF, that you like to come to your conclusions about homeopathy without knowing anything much at all about it. I guess that suits your purposes.
Incidentally, do you even know what Anti-venin consists of? Its actually just a crude form of Isopathy, which we know isn't as effective or as reliable as homeopathy.
You use your stuff. I'll use mine, thanks.
[ 15. October 2003, 12:15: Message edited by: ChaChaHeels ]