Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!tjs From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Arthritis: bunkum vs. reality Message-ID: <1008@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:18:15 EDT Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1008 Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:18:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:15:15 EDT References: <273f14ef.95c@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: tjs@dkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 36 If you are happy then you are doing the best thing. I used to be pretty happy with the way my life was going, then I found out how happy I wasn't. Even though I have always been considered healthly I have never been "well". Now I am trying to get "well". You express your situation and that is good. I would like to hear more about the "cures" you tried and their effects. However, your attitude is terrible. We have all agreed I think that a change in the state-of-mind acompanies most natural remedies. With your sour-grapes attitute I am surprised that anything helps. Maybe your problem is outside the realm of "Total cure through natural methods". If there is structural damage then this is often the case. Natural methods are much slower then conventional medicine. You spent many years getting sick, why should you get well in a month? The path to health is sometimes as long as the one to sickness. As a general rule "Nothing heals in the human body in less than 3 months, then one month for every year that you have been sick" (quoted from Jack Richadson). There are true quack doctors. Are you sour-grapes at all doctors because this is so? There are bogus non-conventional treatments also. If you are not ready for natural methods then don't shoot them all down just because it didn't work for you. Many people are cured successfully with these methods. Would you denie others the choise just because you don't agree? By all means tell them your experience, let them make an informed judgement. Just don't tell part of a story, let them hear about those that were helped also. I take exception to your reference to "Those of us who are really afflicted", I know you don't speak for all ill people. I have talked to many that have been cured and who whole-heartedly endorse natural methods. {allegra|ihnp4}!cbdkc1!tjs