granitebadger25 said:In a lagging place like America, just like in the perfect West, conventional medicine once adopted a homeopathic method—hyposensitization for allergic diseases, specifically allergic asthma... It was a convenient method back when there weren't more effective drugs available, especially for an allergy to a single allergen you can't avoid, and for patients with enough free time to afford frequent, long-term treatments... with the caveat that this method makes zero sense if there's an allergy to multiple allergens (which is most cases), and that reactions can be very unpleasant, even dangerous.
Nowadays, much more effective asthma medications and simpler treatment methods exist, so homeopathic hyposensitization is obsolete in most cases.
Yet, it’s still being done here, and abroad too, but guess where? Mostly in private practices!!! ... And that's because it's highly profitable to have a patient coming to you for injections year after year... when they could easily solve their problem with modern medicine, but then their asthma would be perfectly regulated, and there'd be no need to visit your clinic every week. 😉
In Western countries, doctors aren't bribed by patients, but they certainly are by pharmaceutical companies... to the point where even professional and scientific "authorities" are capable of peddling unverified data as recommended treatment protocols.
If that's all homeopathy in mainstream American medicine, then it's a tragedy.
There goes that argument again: it's profitable to have a patient coming for injections! And you cite one single instance of homeopathic therapy?? One single use case!?? That kind of narrow-minded approach and criticism is exactly what I'm talking about. I think the number of patients receiving non-homeopathic injections is at least a thousand times larger than those coming for homeopathic hyposensitization.
On the flip side, abroad you see 1,000 (just an illustrative figure) cases where homeopathy is used, and it's most effective for chronic conditions. And in the vast majority of cases, specifically my own, the doctor knows nothing about it... pharmacies exist, and thank God they do, because you need an alternative.
And that is "slightly" more than just the one single method you're now claiming is used in America... using it as a counterargument against yourself.
I'm sure there are doctors in America who specialize in homeopathy too.
And while we're on the subject of "perfectly regulating asthma," I know methods that don't just regulate it, but actually cure it. Of course, we're talking about alternative methods again, but documented ones. But... well, it's just how things are over here...