We will not listen to the "Voice of Young Science," and listen instead to the voice of old science. We have a simple preventative and a simple remedy for anyone who gets the swine flu. The ultimate danger here is relying on a contaminated needle stick from an ignoramus wanting to get paid to play God. In its August 17th issue The Times of India reports:
The British Government has written to senior neurologists to warn them that the new swine flu vaccine may trigger a deadly brain disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome. Medical experts have been asked to look out for cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome which can paralyse its victims, once the national vaccination programme begins. In its letter, the Health Protection Agency refers to the use of a swine flu vaccine in the US in 1976, when 25 people died from the syndrome, while just one died from flu. Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested, and its effects, especially on children, are unknown. [14.]
It certainly is interesting that this information hasn’t appeared in the Western press, but rather in the country that has the highest use of homeopathy in the world. Homeopathy, according to WHO’s own assessment, is the second most widely used form of medicine in the world today, second only to Chinese medicine .[23] It is the largest form of medicine today in India, where crowds are mobbing pharmacies for homeopathic remedies.
"And, in a frenzy state, people have started buying Influenzinum homeopathic medicine from homeopathic shops and pharmacies. One can see crowd of people buying influenzinum in front of homeopathic shops in Pune and Mumbai." [24]
This is because it works. [25] Despite the perpetual attacks on it, homeopathy has a history of increasing use. Homeopathic remedies are not placebos. They are real medicines. The proof of it is that their action can be seen on plants, animals, children, in double blind trials and in biochemical tests, all subjects that are free from the placebo effect.
"The virus does not become resistant to homeopathy because we don't treat the virus," Mirman said. "We treat the vital force, the immune system, so then it takes care of the virus, whatever it is." [24]
The attack on homeopathy by the VYS is nothing new. Over a hundred years ago, on Jan 9th, 1890, the Homeopathic Society of New York met to discuss how to deal with its two greatest challenges: Cures for attacks on homeopaths by the oppositional medical practitioners of the old school, and influenza. After discussing homeopathy and the struggles it had met since Hahnemann promulgated it 80 years past from that time, Dr. George S. Norton had the following to say:
Since all other means have failed to destroy homeopathy, its opponents have raised the cry that it is sectarian, as if that were a disgrace. But this, like all past attempts to injure the school, is doomed to the same inevitable failure, and will prove in the end to be a title of honor and not of shame. For sectarianism was in the beginning forced upon homeopathy. If, when the law of similia was first promulgated by Hahnemann, it had been accepted by the profession as one law of cure, even of little importance, it would not have advanced the therapeutics of the old school many years, but would have prevented the formation of a sectarian school. But such was not the case. It was met by the bigotry of the medical profession, who, without investigation, held the law and its followers up to ridicule, derision, and oppression. Shall we then, at the dictum of the old school and the few discontents in our own ranks, tear down the bridge which has carried us in safety over? Shall we renounce those principles which have been our guide in the past or endeavor to merge them into the broad field of medical empiricism? No; most emphatically no! The time has not yet come for this to be done. When the dominant school of medicine accepts the law of similia as one of the laws of cure; when the principles of homeopathy are taught with others in their colleges; when homeopathic physicians and surgeons are admitted upon an equal footing in their societies and given the same recognition in their hospitals and public institutions; when the ban which has been laid upon all followers of Hahnemann has been removed, then, and not until then, can we afford to give up our distinctive title. They who first forced us into sectarianism must give us a more cordial invitation to return to the fold before we can with honor accept.
The participants then put the quarrel aside and went on to discuss treatments for influenza, noting that there had been 80 or more epidemics had appeared in different portions of the globe since the 16th century. It was recorded that in the treament of influenza, Gelsemium and "phos" were used with good results, and that as many as 99 out of 100 of the numerous death were the result of non-homeopathic treatment. [26]
Modern proof will be found in the sub continent. Watch India. They have the highest use of homeopathy in the world and the government has een funding research for its use. With so many people using it, if it is ineffective, then India will tell the story. Be safe, be well.[27] Inform others to try homeoapthy. [28] If they have there doubts, send them to http://scienceofhomeopathy.com. It works.
FOOTNOTES "The Truth about Homeopathy and the Swine Flu" by John R. Benneth
1. "1918 flu pandemic" Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
2. "Swine flu" Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza
3. Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza - Bird Flu Edition Sandra J. Perko PhD CCN, Benchmark, 2005, p. 24 http://www.wholehealthnow.com/books/homeopathic-influenza.html
4. Some history of the treatment of epidemics with homeopathy by Julian Winston http://www.whale.to/v/winston.html
5. Homeopathy for Epidemics by Eileen Nauman http://www.homeopathic.com/store/product=1797
6. Homeopathy in Pandemics & Epidemics - Presentation Transcript Jayney Goddard
http://www.slideshare.net/drprabhatlkw/homeopathy-in-pandemics-epidemics
7. Homeopathy in Influenza: A Chorus of Fifty by W.A. Dewey, MD., University of Michigan. The Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, May 1921 http://www.homeopathyforflu.com/dewey.pdf
8. Perko, p.133
9. "The Influenza Epidemic" Mataura Ensign, Volume 13, Issue 965, 25 March 1890, Page 3
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ME18900325.2.19
10. Perko, p.117-118
11. Perko p. 302
12. New swine flu jab may trigger brain disorder The Times of India August 17 2009,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/New-swine-flu-jab-may-trigger-brain-disorder/articleshow/4901358.cms
[13.] Homeopathic medicine may work for swine flu Health News Track http://www.healthnewstrack.com/health-news-1286.html
14. "WHO Recommends Against Using Homeopathic Treatments For HIV, TB, Malaria, Influenza, Infant Diarrhea" Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2009/August/21/GH-082109-Homeopathy.aspx
15. Glatthaar-Saalmüller B. "In vitro evaluation of the antiviral effects of the homeopathic preparation Gripp-Heel on selected respiratory viruses." Clinical Immunology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, A-1210 Vienna, Austria. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2007 Nov;85(11):1084-90
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18066110?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
16. PUBMED http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
17. The in vitro evidence for an effect of high homeopathic potencies--a systematic review of the literature. Witt CM, Bluth M, Albrecht H, Weisshuhn TF, Baumgartner S, Willich SN
Complement Ther Med. 2007 Jun;15(2):139-41.
Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, D-10098 Berlin, Germany. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17544864
18. Some remarks on the Memory of Water Controversy
http://weirdtech.com/sci/memoryofwater.html
19. BBC HOMEOPATHY TEST NOT A REPEAT OF ANY PREVIOUS STUDY
Protocol for HOMEOPATHY: THE TEST failed to match previous study.
http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,56
20. ENNIS: BENVENISTE VINDICATED
Replications by pan European labs
Histamine dilutions modulate basophil activation
Inflammation Research, v 53 #5, April 200
http://www.springerlink.com/content/dmby16rmj02dhxat/
21. Interview with Madeleine Ennis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4152521,00.html
22. Homeopathy not a cure, says WHO. BBCNEWS Aug 20th 09 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8211925.stm
23. Who report on medical modalities
24. Is influenzinum right homeopathic remedy for H1N1 flu? by Ankur Kumar Health News Track Aug 14 09 http://www.healthnewstrack.com/health-news-1764.html
25. WITT: Homeopathic medical practice: long-term results of a cohort study with 3981 patients.
Witt CM, Lüdtke R, Baur R, Willich SN.
Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, D-10098 Berlin, Germany
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16266440
26. "Why they are sectarian: Homeopathic doctors on the influenza" CURES FOR THE GRIP The New York Times Jan 10, 1890 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE4DC143BE533A25753C1A9679C94619ED7CF
27. New Homeopathic Remedies May Be Helpful in Treating "Swine" Flu and Other Epidemic, Endemic Diseases Harry van der Zee, MD
http://www.prlog.org/10230782-new-homeopathic-remedies-may-be-helpful-in-treating-swine-flu-and-other-epidemic-endemic-diseases.html
28. YouTube - HOMEOPATHY STOPS EPIDEMIC! Cuban homeopathic vaccines immunize millions yearly by John Benneth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95QGrAFFPk
