Alternate Cures Gaining Acceptance

Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry is running scared; not
because of the advent of homeopathy but because of its
re-emergence.

http://tinyurl.com/mhyuhv

Important statement about Zicam, homeopathic remedies and false AP report

The FDA's action produced a story distributed by Associated
Press AP that is full of fabrications and falsely called into
question the safety of homeopathic remedies. The National Center
of Homepathy NCH, in concert with the American Association of
Homeopathic Pharmacists AAHP, has been vigorously responding to
the AP story.

http://tinyurl.com/lcsruw

The Moral of the Zicam Story

The moral? If you're going to sell homeopathic medicine - and
boy, is it a lucrative business - make sure that you don't put
anything in there except sterile water. That'll cut down on your
expenses, too, since most ingredients cost more than water,
anyway. Stick with that strategy, and you can be absolutely sure
that nothing bad will happen to your customers. Nothing good
will happen to them either, but they won't know that. When their
cold/headache/whatever goes away of its own accord, they'll
ascribe it to your miracle product. Sit back and profit!

http://tinyurl.com/qsajfk

Smell-Loss Drug Escaped FDA Review Under Homeopathic Label

Matrixx didnt alert U.S. regulators to about 800 reports it
received from Zicam users who said they lost their sense of
smell. The FDA found the reports only after an inspection in
May. Zicams main ingredient is zinc, which since the 1930s has
been linked to loss of smell when applied inside the nose. A
group overseeing homeopathic drugs says thats an improper use.

http://tinyurl.com/mljyrc

FDA approved drugs - are they really safer than alternative medicines?

The anti-alternative medicine camp is at it again, with new
headlines popping up today referring to complementary and
alternative medicine CAM as "unorthodox" and "mystical mumbo
jumbo". see recent article in the Idaho Statesman The
implication is that CAM therapies are not only unorthodox and
unapproved, but also dangerous. This is a change from some other
recent posts siting NCCAM reports that the alternative
therapies, studied by the National Institutes of Health NIH
department of complementary and alternative medicine, are
nothing more than ineffective placebos. So in the space of about
a week, alternative medicine went from placebo to something
dangerous that should be avoided at all costs. Interesting.

http://tinyurl.com/kmpqlk

Misconceptions aside, homeopathy has stood test of time

The article, Zicam not alone in side effect reports AC-T, June
17, portrays homeopathy in a very poor light. Unfortunately, its
author makes the all-too-common mistake of writing passionately
about the horrors of homeopathy without actually even
understanding homeopathy. Zicam is not homeopathy.

http://tinyurl.com/mmaz2s

Homeopathic remedies reduce outdoor worries

Other parents were giving me advice such as, Put some baking
soda on it, but I knew exactly what to do. I rushed Sahara home
and promptly gave her a couple doses of homeopathic Apis
mellifica. Immediately, the swelling went down, and Sahara
collected herself and stopped screaming. Half an hour after she
was stung, I sent her back to school with a few doses of Apis in
her pocket. Later that night, all traces of the bee sting were
gone.

http://tinyurl.com/lcaaxh