Re: A larger presence, the unknowable total of all there is

On Fri, 16 May 2008 00:29:52 -0400, Robert Epstein wrote
(in article <458Xj.18605$%X1.15204@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

>>> 
>>> I don't know about homeopathy, but there are many who swear by these 
>>> things. 
>>> I don't care...... if it helps them, let them do it!!!!!    If it is 
>>> placebo, who cares?   All that is im****tant is that it helps people!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I agree.   However, for me, I need to see hard scientific proof of a
claim 
>> one way or the other.  But if it works for others, with or without the 
>> science backing it, like you, I'm all for it.  I must admit though, if
I 
>> was 
>> desperate for a cure or relief from pain, I would probably try anything
and 
>> everything and to hell with science.  :)
>> 
>> tara
>> 
>> 
> 
> Anecdotes won't convince scientists, but they do convince the people 
> they happen to.  I personally have seen two close family friends cured 
> by acupuncture, which is probably good for some things and not others. 
> Our friend had severe arthritis in the hands and could no longer even 
> pick things up.  Completely gone after a series of acupuncture 
> treatments.  Another family friend had a horribly painful pinched nerve 
> in the face that tortured him for years.  Cured completely, never to 
> return, by a series of acupuncture treatments.  I myself had a serious 
> problem which was greatly reduced for a number of years through 
> acupuncture.  And the same Chinese doctor that helped me restored an 
> acquaintance's fertility.  She hadn't had a period for ten years, then 
> got married and wanted to get pregnant.  Acupuncture restored her 
> ovulation, and she now has a child.  These things happened to myself and

> people I know personally, so there is not confusion on my part as to the

> efficacy of treatments - with the proviso that it is for the right kinds

> of conditions and that the acupuncturist is very skilled.  Ordinary 
> acupuncture does not necessarily produce these kinds of results.  But if

> you ever want to go to a talented Chinese doctor in New York City, I'll 
> give you his name.   :)

thanks Robert.  I'll remember that.

tara
> 
> Robert
> 
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