When an alternative cure is accepted by mainstream health authorities do you know what it is called? Answer: "medicine". Up to that point it is labelled as quackery. Even if they don't scientifically understand how or why it works, if and only if it is statistically proven to be effective, then and only then is it given proper accreditation... as long as it's safe (so no-one gets sued).
Take acupuncture for example. It used to be ridiculed as phoney oriental nonsense practised by devious charlatans. They eventually gave in because it cures medical ailments. Hey, patients even have some types of operations without any painkillers or anaesthesia - wide awake. It is no longer stigmatized as Alternative Therapy. Hypnotherapy is another example with a similar history.
I challenge you to look up any alternative cure on that politically correct bastion of the Left-wing propaganda machine - Wikipedia, and find one that doesn't get a bad rap. Well, "Wonkipedia" might go as far as to acknowledge that there is no danger in it, but it will always state that it hasn't been proven to be effective or cure anything under laboratory conditions - usually tagged with the "evidence is purely anecdotal" disclaimer.
Dr Johanna Budwig... pooh-poohed for curing cancer with essential fatty acids... her protocol included a diet consisting of Quark cottage cheese and freshly ground flaxseed oil (sauerkraut juice is also produced by the same lactic acid as Quark). Can't possibly work, they say, too simple. Budwig researched the theory that a low oxygen environment would develop in the absence of sulphydryl groups and/or fatty acid partners that would encourage the proliferation of cancerous cells. Based on the principle that cancer cells thrive in that cellular environment caused by eating processed food and especially denatured fats and hydrogenated oils, her cure aims at getting the right fatty acids into the tissues, getting the right alkaline levels in body tissue, restoring healthy omega-3/omega-6 balance. No pharma, just proper diet and no processed food or toxins. Too easy, they say. You can’t patent flaxseed or sauerkraut, and with no drugs involved, there's no money to be made by "The Health Industry". Read wiki's page on her, then read everything else net-wise and form your own opinion.
So have a go, think of any alternative medicine or treatment then look it up on Wonkipedia. They kind of tread more lightly around Ayurveda, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Unani because, well, they'd look quite foolish otherwise, given their widespread practise in the East and the sheer popularity of them. Anything else seems to be fair game. In each article go to the "Health benefits" section and you'll see a standard "There is no scientific evidence of any proven medical benefit blah blah....". I suppose we could start with crystals, but let's go with Nauropathy or Homeopathy, or anything left field. Go on, think of one - maybe try Aromatherapy, Colour Therapy, Music Therapy... Shiatsu, Tai chi, Reiki, TM, Faith Healing, Purple Plates (made "famous" by Linda Goodman - or should that be infamous!) hey, while you're at it, check out Astrology, Tarot, Spiritualism i.e. seances, scrying (crystal ball divination), or any form of fortune telling or contact with the other side. None of these seem to like laboratory testing yet proponents swear by them. I'm not saying they all work. That isn't my point.
It is then that you start to see Wikipedia in a different light - as the left-wing propaganda machine that it is.
Take acupuncture for example. It used to be ridiculed as phoney oriental nonsense practised by devious charlatans. They eventually gave in because it cures medical ailments. Hey, patients even have some types of operations without any painkillers or anaesthesia - wide awake. It is no longer stigmatized as Alternative Therapy. Hypnotherapy is another example with a similar history.
I challenge you to look up any alternative cure on that politically correct bastion of the Left-wing propaganda machine - Wikipedia, and find one that doesn't get a bad rap. Well, "Wonkipedia" might go as far as to acknowledge that there is no danger in it, but it will always state that it hasn't been proven to be effective or cure anything under laboratory conditions - usually tagged with the "evidence is purely anecdotal" disclaimer.
Dr Johanna Budwig... pooh-poohed for curing cancer with essential fatty acids... her protocol included a diet consisting of Quark cottage cheese and freshly ground flaxseed oil (sauerkraut juice is also produced by the same lactic acid as Quark). Can't possibly work, they say, too simple. Budwig researched the theory that a low oxygen environment would develop in the absence of sulphydryl groups and/or fatty acid partners that would encourage the proliferation of cancerous cells. Based on the principle that cancer cells thrive in that cellular environment caused by eating processed food and especially denatured fats and hydrogenated oils, her cure aims at getting the right fatty acids into the tissues, getting the right alkaline levels in body tissue, restoring healthy omega-3/omega-6 balance. No pharma, just proper diet and no processed food or toxins. Too easy, they say. You can’t patent flaxseed or sauerkraut, and with no drugs involved, there's no money to be made by "The Health Industry". Read wiki's page on her, then read everything else net-wise and form your own opinion.
So have a go, think of any alternative medicine or treatment then look it up on Wonkipedia. They kind of tread more lightly around Ayurveda, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Unani because, well, they'd look quite foolish otherwise, given their widespread practise in the East and the sheer popularity of them. Anything else seems to be fair game. In each article go to the "Health benefits" section and you'll see a standard "There is no scientific evidence of any proven medical benefit blah blah....". I suppose we could start with crystals, but let's go with Nauropathy or Homeopathy, or anything left field. Go on, think of one - maybe try Aromatherapy, Colour Therapy, Music Therapy... Shiatsu, Tai chi, Reiki, TM, Faith Healing, Purple Plates (made "famous" by Linda Goodman - or should that be infamous!) hey, while you're at it, check out Astrology, Tarot, Spiritualism i.e. seances, scrying (crystal ball divination), or any form of fortune telling or contact with the other side. None of these seem to like laboratory testing yet proponents swear by them. I'm not saying they all work. That isn't my point.
It is then that you start to see Wikipedia in a different light - as the left-wing propaganda machine that it is.
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