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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (5202)1/4/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (1) of 116753
 
OFF-TOPIC TANGENT -- alternative medicine/numerology

With all due respect, you are knocking numerology and promoting herbalism? I will not knock either

Herbalism has emperical basis to work. Every plant is unique, and may contain chemicals that may be good (or bad) for us. The science of pharmacy isolates specific chemicals that we can clinicaly 'prove' has therapeutic value for a specific disease. Herbalism 'discovered' that willow bark was good for certain problems. Pharmacists figured out the active ingredient in willow bark and produced aspirin. In the future, I think these two fields will work together in a complementary fashion. (This has nothing in common with homeopathy which makes no sense at all to me)

Numerology is something outside of traditional Western scientific thought. Remember that popular book in 1988 predicting the end of the world based upon application of numerology on the book of Revelation? The 'analysis' sounded really good in its own system of assumptions/faith, but it didn't come true. Think one needs a connection to a higher power to do successful numerology, and this is difficult to prove/rely upon. There may exist people who can really do this, but it's so easy for quacks to set themselves up as experts, I don't trust any of them. :-)

Just comments from an empirical perspective. Other perspectives may be significantly different.
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