Homeopathic prescribing differs in general from allopathic medicine in its tailoring of remedies to the patient's overall personality type and totality of symptoms, rather than to the disease. Whereas a conventional physician would prescribe the same medication or treatment regimen to all patients with the common cold, for example, a homeopathic practitioner would ask detailed questions about each patient's symptoms and the modalities, or factors, that make them better or worse. As a result, the homeopath might prescribe six different remedies for six different patients with the same illness. In acute prescribing homeopathy, consultations are more brief compared to constitutional homeopathic prescribing. A typical patient might spend just 10–15 minutes with the practitioner, compared to more than an hour for constitutional prescribing.
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Homeopathic prescribing differs in general from allopathic medicine in its tailoring of remedies to the patient's overall personality type and totality of symptoms, rather than to the disease. Whereas a conventional physician would prescribe the same medication or treatment regimen to all patients with the common cold, for example, a homeopathic practitioner would ask detailed questions about each patient's symptoms and the modalities, or factors, that make them better or worse. As a result, the homeopath might prescribe six different remedies for six different patients with the same illness. In acute prescribing homeopathy, consultations are more brief compared to constitutional homeopathic prescribing. A typical patient might spend just 1015 minutes with the practitioner, compared to more than an hour for constitutional prescribing. that it doesn't actually work.
There, fixed that for you.
Also, if I may direct your attention to this bit here...?
tailoring of remedies to the patient's overall personality type and totality of symptoms,
...see, what this shows is that you know full well that the mass-produced homeopathic remedies you people sell in stores don't actually do anything.
Homeopathy: The notion that the more dilute a preparation's ingredients are, the stronger their effect.
No further comment necessary.
A good doctor will tell you that your body will fight off the common cold with or without medicine, and only prescribe you something if they fear complications. Otherwise they'll only recommend to do whatever makes the duration of symptoms less uncomfortable.
In other words, it's all a bunch of BS. Because if it actually worked, they'd prescribe the same medicine for the same illness.
And seriously, personality type? Further proof that homeopathy is total bullshit. Diseases don't care what kind of personality you have.
Not really a conspiracy. Certainly a health fundie.
And a silly one too, though a clear mile away from Natural News.
As stated before, that fact that you get 6 different "remedies" for 6 different patients, is proof that it is a fraud. I would be though that if the same person went to 6 different homeopaths, they would also get 6 different "remedies".
Excellent, so in addition to homeopathy being bullshit (which we all already knew) it is also arbitrary, made-up-on-the-spot bullshit that doesn't even have any consistency.
Even David Icke manages to be consistent.
At least at the end of 10-15 minutes with a real doctor, the patient will likely have a prescription for something that will do some good. After wasting an hour with a homeopathic practitioner, all they'll have is a bottle of overpriced sugar pills.
Actually, given the bottom-line attitude of most insurance companies, I'm surprised they haven't latched onto homeopathy as a way to make more money without actually providing any kind of service.
"[T]he homeopath might prescribe six different remedies..."
No, the homeopath would prescribe one "remedy", and call water by six different names.
This reminds me of that one episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! where they had one room and hired three different feng shui "experts" to rearrange the room to give the best feng shui. Naturally all three rearranged the room differently from each other, showing that the whole idea of feng shui is just made up by each "expert." If it were a valid thing, they'd have all rearranged the room the exact same way.
Same for homeopathy... the "practitioners" obviously are just making up the "cure" on the spot and no six different homeopaths will come up with the same "treatment" for the same illness.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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