Subject:  Re Mark Millman's Homeopathic comments (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 17 Mar 1998 194123 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Guru offers brief response below.........
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:24:03 +1200
From: Bruce Rapley 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: Mark Millman's Homeopathic comments

Roy, =20

Just a note from down under (New Zealand) in response to Mark Millman's
comments about homeopathics:

"You can't buy homoeopathic remedies from your drug store either, yet
millions of people use them for health problems and they appear to work,
maybe it=EDs the "placebo effect","

In New Zealand, in many places, you can buy homeopathic remedies from drug
stores (or as we call them, chemist's shops or pharmacies).   Druggists
(pharmaceutical chemists) have seen the writing on the wall and it is
spelled: D O L L A R S.

Many drug stores here sell vitamins, homeopathics and magnetic products.
(However you can no longer buy melatonin.)

Now I have a question for the debate:

If exogenous EMFs are harmful, why are we seeing a proliferation of various
pseudo-medical devices which rely on magnetic field generation for their
claimed 'beneficial' effects ?   In New Zealand, and Australia, many
physiotherapists have such units, and use them frequently - even if they
cannot explain, or do not know, how or why they work.   Many patients I
have spoken to have said they do not feel any benefit from these devices at
all, and yet the devices continue to proliferate.   I have yet to see any
published clinical, double-blinded, trials in the literature claiming their
effectiveness - all I find are anecdotal reports of wonderous cures.    But
then, stories about wonderous cures are two a penny.  (The work of Bassett
and Becker on recalcitrant bone fracture healing is a notable exception -
but the waveform Becker uses is quite different to the majority of the
devices to which I refer which are based on pulsed 50 or 60 Hz.)  What is
really going on here ?  Can anyone enlighten me ?

B.R.

Guru offers short, quick response.  Others are also encouraged to do
so....

Yes, as in the case of X-rays, radiactive isotopes, etc., though these
techniques can be harmful to health (BECAUSE they are biologically active
-- as are EMFs) ... properly used they can be beneficial as well
harmful.....  The key, of course, is that they be properly utilized....

I'm sure that many in the group will have much to say on that.....

Cheerio....

Guru



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