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From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Arthritis: bunkum vs. reality
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:18:15 EDT
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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.

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