...legally speaking, that is. As I seem to have embarked on a path that will have me at some point prescribing homeopathic and/or flower remedies, can anyone advise me of the attitude of the medical boards etc toward such modes of treatment? I am a Licensed clinical social worker, which is a “restricted license to practice medicine” (i.e., the “medical” practice of psychotherapy), but people of my ilk don’t prescribe medicine. I suppose I do “cure diseases,” since I am licensed to diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders, but I don’t think the FDA or the local medical board or the courts or even the insurance carriers that pay the bills, I guess, would like me to tell people that Arsenicum Album can cure a neurosis, or anything else for that matter.

I’m not sure how to phrase my question. I guess I’m asking for opinions on generally accepted safe practice and legal mumbo jumbo. Links or other referrals would also be appreciated.

[ 31. August 2002, 16:20: Message edited by: bwv11 ]

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Dear Bach,

Homeopathic remedies are legal over-the-counter remedies that anyone can buy in a drug store or supermarket. You can ask your client, Would you like to try homeopathy? Do you know what it is?
(Show remedy bottle.) You let one of these pellets melt in your mouth and it miraculously sends an energetic message to your immune system that says, "Here's what's wrong with you," and the body proceeds to heal itself--there's no medicine in it, per se. Gandhi used homeopathy,
Mark Twain, Emerson and Thoreau, the Queen of England uses it....It was very popular in this country a century ago, and people are just now rediscovering it. Maybe you'd like to read something about it and give it some thought.

Anyway, it would be his choice, and not your prescription, strictly speaking.

Snoopy

I understand that Dr. Timothy Dooley's
HOMEOPATHY, BEYOND FLAT EARTH MEDICINE
is free online and can be printed out. Does anyone know if this is true? That would be great to hand out to your clients.

Snoopy

I'll answer my own question. It's right here on our own Homepage! Click on "Reference".

Snoopy

Dear Snoopy -

You're terrific. Glad you got your AC back (I'm assuming, anyway!).

Best,

Bach

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Dear JSB,

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for my new laptop computer to arrive in the mail, still using my husband's which I don't often have access to; I'm thinking that by the end of the week my new laptop will be here. I'll make an announcement.

Let me know how you've decided to handle "prescribing" homeopathic remedies.

Snoopy

Bach

it is all mumbo jumbo isn't it?

Hey snoops, got the pics, what a great surprise! will your email be the same when the new laptop comes? Let me know when ya get it so we can chat. Hubby got me a laptop 2 christmases ago -BEST PRESENT I EVER GOT!!!

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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to animals. For they are without sin and you in your greatness defile the earth by your appearance on it and leave traces of you foulness after you. Dostoyevsky

Snoopy -

You'll be the first to know! My message will read someting like, "O my god, I did so-and-so, what's going to happen now????"

Barb -

Mumbo jumbo. Yep. These guys are so pitiful. Blot it out, never mind about informed consent or freedom of choice, ignore annecdotal and clinical evidence, and lock 'em away if their patients love 'em. And then they go around infecting their own patients in their own hospitals in record numbers, but never mind, because there is a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in place, and its FDA approved. Arrrgh! Sorry-I'm kind of riled up, just coming out of a really good session with a good patient: just being face to face, sometimes, with having to explain the shortcomings of traditional medicine, traditional research, traditional diet ... hmmm, I wonder what I ate today?

Bach

P.S. I better go listen to some of my music.

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

It's amazing that some states have actually been able to pass medical freedom of choice acts. People who want to say, "Your diet is making you sick!" actually need an act of government to protect them, while, yes, hospitals are killing people left and right through medical mistakes, hospital infections...what is it, 100,00 people a year killed by correctly prescribed prescription drugs? But we're the ones who are placed under suspicion, not them.

Well, Barb, my husband bought me a laptop 4 years ago and, like with you, it was the best present I ever got too, and now, being without it for almost a month is driving me crazy! My email address will still be the same as far as I know.
I hope to be back in the saddle by early next week.

Sigh.

Snoopy

bwv11:

I wish you the best should you decide to incorporate homeopathy into your practice. As an individual who is still feeling the ill effects from my first encounter with homeopathy I would appreciate it if you would read the attached links as part of your homeopathic education if you have not already done so. I was initially treated by a well known practitioner and teacher of homeopathy. I received treatment from this individual for over a year taking just a few remedies mainly in high potency. I finally stopped the treatment feeling far worse than when I started. That was almost 12 years ago. The efforts of another highly skilled homeopath have been unable to undo the effects of the original treatment or bring about a cure. When you have finally cut through all the “mumbo jumbo” and if you still decide to use homeopathy just remember you will never know how sensitive or how “so-and-so” will react until after the remedy has been given. So do take care. It is cases like mine that probably explain why Snoopy and other low potency advocates practice the way they do.

http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlel...hy/danger.html

http://homeoint.org/books3/kentlect/lect16.htm

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