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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: Chabon 19
Date: Dec 26, 2007 00:26

On Dec 26, 3:12 pm, Chabon 19 gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 10:36 am, DJhampa gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 26, 7:46 am, Kramerbane gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Dec 25, 11:48 pm, DJhampa gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> On Dec 25, 8:53 pm, Kramerbane gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> On Dec 25, 7:57 pm, DJhampa gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>> On Dec 25, 7:17 pm, Kramerbane gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On Dec 25, 4:33 pm, DJhampa gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Don't believe what I say. Just go and read the book in the link
>>>>>> that was given. It is free. All you need to do is to engage some gray
>>>>>> matter 8-).
>
>>> Jumper, I hate to disillusion you but anyone can write a book. There
>>> was a doctor in Vermont, U.S.A. that observed that cattle that were
>>> feed on clover and honey seemed to be healthier. He wrote a book
>>> touting clover and honey capsule for humans and made quite a bit of
>>> money on his mail order remidy.
>
>> And your point is ?
>
>> Did you read the book I cited ?
>
>> Did you look at the evidences he presented ?
>
>> If not then your casting of aspersion by being similar is a wee
>> bit mischievious. And I think all those people who are dumber than
>> rock here could actually see your mischief.
>
>>>> I presented the book entitled "Alive and Well" which documented
>>>> 18 years clinical cases by a doctor who is retiring and has no vested
>>>> interests. He was hauled up to court a few times, threatened with
>>>> revoking his licence, intimidated by the authorities by sending
>>>> someone to sit in his office etc. And yet he persisted because he
>>>> had good results with his patients, many of whom were still alive at
>>>> the time of his writing.
>
>>> The "authorities" do not intimidate anyone for sitting in an office.
>>> What they do is prosicute someone for selling a "medicine" that is not
>>> FDA approved. Further you are not hauled to court several times and
>>> threatened with loss of license. If they bother to take a doctor to
>>> court they will revoke his license. If they are just harassing him he
>>> will certainly counter sue and probably collect.
>
>> Read the book. He was taken to court and FDA failed to pull
>> wool over the court judge and it was dismissed. All the cases that he
>> had submitted for examination were not found to be false or merely his
>> fabrication. This good doctor knowing what he would face had
>> meticulously documented all his cases.
>
>> Read the book.
>
>>>>> The site about the cough medicine was typical. It mentioned "studies",
>>>>> "peer reviewed studies" and other terms that wold lead one to believe
>>>>> that this was an authentic review. But they left out the bibliography
>>>>> so there is no real information about who/what they are actually
>>>>> quoting. No way to check up on them. Any real study includes all the
>>>>> references quoted, in great detail. In addition I saw mention of a
>>>>> membership fee, I assume to get the "real" facts.
>
>>>> The ban was by FDA and it was on public record. As for the research
>>>> on honey here are some of the references.
>>>> Sources:
>
>>>> * Star Tribune December 3, 2007
>
>>>> * Wired December 4, 2007
>
>>>> * Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine December 2007;
>>>> 161(12):1140-1146
>
>>>> * Organic Consumers Association December 12, 2007
>
>>> Good Lord! You quote "proof" published in a newspaper, Wired magazine
>>> and the Organic consumer Association? Certainly peer reviewed studies.
>>> Really, really impartial sources. Are you really stupid enough to
>>> believe them?
>
>> All these magazines actually published results from peer-
>> reviewed journals. You seem to miss one above. The ban was by FDA
>> and it was on public record.
>
>> Well, again who is the blind and dumb one is obvious to others.
>> Of course the blind and dumb would not be able to see that 8-).
>
>>>> Instead of pouring scorn you would do better if you read up on
>>>> perhaps just Vioxx and Baycol and then provide an alternative view.
>
>>> Lad, get yourself a copy of any medical guide and have a look at the
>>> side effects of most of the medicines listed world wide. Nearly all of
>>> them have side effects of some severity.
>
>> The reason I had cited the two examples above was not so much
>> the adverse drug reaction but the attempts at covering studies that
>> had actually revealed these adverse drug reaction. The makers actually
>> knew these effects but conceal it from FDA and physicians who had to
>> prescribe them.
>
>> Go and look up the cases.
>
>>>Aspirin, for example has a
>>> side effect of causing stomach irritation and sometimes bleeding but
>>> it is also has a blood thinning effect and has prevented stroke in a
>>> large number of people. Do you want to ban aspirin.
>
>> No but you need to update your knowledge a bit.
>
>
>> Dr.Mercola is a modern medicine physician.
>
>>>I saw a dog fed a
>>> dose of the anti-malaria medicine we took in Vietnam - it killed the
>>> dog. Should we all have stopped taking the medicine?
>
>> Doesn't this demonstrate the uselessness of vivisection ?
>
>> Peacock could, for example, take in certain poison that would be
>> fatal to human.
>
>> False analogy and bringing this up is mischievious.
>
>>>Birth control
>>> pills have caused death in a number of women - this is a proven fact!
>>> Should birth control pills be banned? Well, considering that the
>>> number of deaths attributed to birth control pills is less then the
>>> number of births attributed to child birth most people feel the risk
>>> is justified.
>
>> Go and look at the history of birth control pill. It was a
>> disaster when it started out. Even with the lower dose pill there were
>> a lot of terrible side-effects. Many of which came on in a very short
>> time after taking.
>
>> The way you had rationalised away the death and destruction is
>> really sick. Here's an interesting acronym.
>
>> B enighters
>> I nfesting
>> G auntlets
>
>> P oisionus
>> H armful
>> A larming
>> R idiculous
>> M edication
>> A t any cost
>
>>> Do you know it is medically possible to ingest enough water to kill
>>> yourself? Should we ban water?
>
>> That's silly. Whenever we take drugs that could badly upset the
>> inner balance it is a recipe for a lot of problems. You tweak one
>> element in the body and think you can control the other aspects of the
>> entire system. That's stupidity in any other field of human
>> endeavour. With the complex system that we have this is utter
>> insanity.
>
>>>> I had a friend who had high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
>>>> He was quite large in size and when his blood pressure goes below
>>>> 140/90 he would feel faint. Because of his size he actually needed a
>>>> higher blood pressure but his medication at times brought it too low.
>>>> But that wasn't his problem. On the urging of his doctor he started
>>>> taking slimvastatin to control his cholesterol level and his liver
>>>> failed in just 3 weeks. After 3 weeks he decided to stop the
>>>> medication but he continued to itch like crazy for another 4 weeks.
>>>> His stomach started bloating and he was bleeding internally. At the
>>>> end of it his liver totally failed and he bled to death. There were no
>>>> liver test before or during the taking of this drug.
>
>>>> This is a fact - not some conspiracy theory.
>
>>> No it is not a fact. Your first statement that he needed a blood
>>> pressure of 140/90 is incorrect.
>>> In fact he needed a minimum of bout
>>> 70 - 80 mm mercury to pump blood from his heart to his head when he
>>> was erect. The diastolic pressure of 90 is at least 30mm too high and
>>> is imposing excessive stress on his system.
>
>> You are talking of minimum THEORETICAL value. Everyone is
>> different and the needs are different. Part of the problems with
>> modern medicine is that it failed to recognise this simple truth.
>> With blood pressure lower than 140/90 he was feeling lousy. Wouldn't
>> it be foolish to let some books or researcher somewhere to tell us
>> that we are alright ? When his blood pressure rose a bit more he felt
>> fine.
>
>>> I take simvastatin myself and I can tell you that it is highly
>>> unlikely that taking this medicine would cause a healthy liver to fail
>>> in a matter of weeks.
>
>> That's the point. Before any statin drug is to be given there
>> must be liver test before and even during the early part of the
>> statin consumption. The liver was already unhealthy but simvastatin
>> accelerated its decline.
>
>> I've also found an internal Memo in the FDA website that
>> reported in the year 2000 there were 62 liver failure adverse drug
>> reaction report. In the US ADR is optional and it is believed that
>> only 1%% to 10%% of ADR are reported. If you multiply that by 10 or 100
>> you have quite a large number of cases. One article estimated 1 in
>> 130,000 cases will result in liver failure and this means death if
>> intervention is not early. This was why liver function test MUST be
>> done before starting, during and months after that.
>
>> You can also look at a more comprehensive documentation of stain
>> safety at :
>
>
>>>In addition your stated symptoms of internal
>>> bleeding is not a symptem of liver failure. You do not "bleed to
>>> death" from liver failure.
>
>> It was the doctor who told me that. He said that the liver failed
>> to produce clotting agent and as a result his bleeding could not stop.
>> I did not go and check this up. Perhaps you could educate us a bit on
>> this.
>
>>> In short, Jumper, you have convinced yourself that modern medicine is
>>> some sort of vast conspericy to feed dangerous drugs to the poor
>>> innocent population.
>
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Jumper, once you are finished with your home made medical news, can
you go where you came from?

Nobody in SCT NEEDS your mistaken crap you teflon brain
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