BobY
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Alternative Medicine Issues
I'd love to hear about the alternative medicine places in Baja. I was reading about the Hitt center and saw a couple vids and what not. I think of
desperate people paying some serious dinero for questionable and even dangerous treatments like Ozone and other oxidative therapies or so-called
energy medicine.
I sounded off about the Hitt Center at a meeting recently when they spoke at a community meeting. Well, actually, I asked embarrassing questions about
their founder. Does anybody know anything in addition to what's posted online (like at the Randi Foundation site)?
...or anything else about the centers in Baja?
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Pescador
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There is a site called Quackwatch.com and they have some very good info on some of these really questionable practices. You can google it. The
problem is that a lot of them use anecdotal information to sell their product and services so you get a really strong sense of hope that it might work
in your case the same way, but due to the lack of any scientific information a lot of them are truly worthless ways to scam money out of hurting and
hopeful people.
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BobY
I asked embarrassing questions about their founder. Does anybody know anything in addition to what's posted online (like at the Randi Foundation
site)?
...or anything else about the centers in Baja? |
I know [Dr]  Hitt. Ask your embarrassing questions here. I'd
be more than happy to help.
99.999% of the alternative medicine folk down here are charlatans. The other .001% are clueless quacks.
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mcfez
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Farmacias Guadalupana. Natural medicine and products. On the traffic circle in San Felipe.
Why you are looking into this, I know is a personal issue.......however...some of us may have had/has the same issues ...and can help you with their
history of dealing with alternative medicine
I can tell you that acupuncture or medical pot will indeed relieve pain. Acupuncture you will find with ease...in Mexicali.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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The Alternative
Alternative medicines are the answer to the Health-care crisis.
IF great enough numbers commit solely to alternative medicines and curative procedures, the demand (and financial impact) on the Conventional Medical
Community would be dramatically improved.
We should encourage everyone we know to alter their thinking and pursue those alternative methods and medicines.
[Edited on 11-6-2011 by MrBillM]
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
99.999% of the alternative medicine folk down here are charlatans. The other .001% are clueless quacks. |
What?? You mean to say Hot Applesauce Enemas won't really cure most anything.....including Communism??
I'm stunned.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
What?? You mean to say Hot Applesauce Enemas won't really cure most anything.....including Communism??
I'm stunned. |
Oh, so that's what's in an apple brown Betty. 
Knowledge is good. - Emil Faber
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EmeraldDawn
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There is an acupuncture clinic here in Rosarito at the corner of (I think) La Fuente and Blvd Benito Juarez. I have no personal experience of them,
but Chinese practitioners do tend to know what they are doing.
Feel free to U2U me if I can help in any way.
[Edited on 11-6-2011 by EmeraldDawn]
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gnukid
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There are some common illnesses which can occur for people visiting Baja and most of those cases have simple remedies that DO NOT require anti-biotics
or broad spectrum anti-parasitic medicines. Over the counter mild medicines are quite adequate for most common illnesses, such as athlete's foot and
other skin problems.
Stomach issues are often associated with diet. Consider taking a close look at your diet and timing of your meals.
Many illnesses are associated with general unsanitary conditions, food born illness, household bugs/mites, dust or mold.
The most basic remedies include washing yourself, cleaning your clothes, bedding and home daily. Keep yourself dry and do not use strong or heavily
perfumed laundry soaps. Consider cleaning with a mild mixture of white vinegar when an astringent is required.
Be aware of unsanitary conditions in restaurants, generally it's less risky to cook at home and know the source of food and utencils. Wash your fruits
and vegetables and refrigerate/freeze food as required. Don't take risks.
Other common alternative home remedies and medicines include teas of local leaves and local honey and chicken soup, of course.
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EmeraldDawn
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There is an acupuncture clinic here in Rosarito at the corner of (I think) La Fuente and Blvd Benito Juarez. I have no personal experience of them,
but Chinese practitioners do tend to know what they are doing.
Feel free to U2U me if I can help in any way.
Oh and I know a lady here who does cranio-sacral therapy. She is very sincere and probably can help with other things.
People like the Randi foundation are no more trustworthy than the charlatans they expose. They have an agenda of pure 19th-century mechanist
materialism and they aren't going to come up with any "findings" that don't confirm that agenda.
On the other hand there is a lot of gullibility and sheer fraud in this area too, so it is certainly necessary to be cautious.
My mother has been helped - pretty much saved - by alternative medicines.
Part of the problem is that these medicines often work in qualitative rather than quantitative ways. So you aren't going to get the kind of
laboratory-reproducible results you can ask for with purely physical techniques.
Acupuncture, for example, works with meridians that are simply not prehensible to purely physical observation. If you believe that only the physical
level of matter affects our health then you should certainly avoid these techniques completely.
[Edited on 11-6-2011 by EmeraldDawn]
[Edited on 11-6-2011 by EmeraldDawn]
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wessongroup
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
Alternative medicines are the answer to the Health-care crisis.
IF great enough numbers commit solely to alternative medicines and curative procedures, the demand (and financial impact) on the Conventional Medical
Community be be dramatically improved.
We should encourage everyone we know to alter their thinking and pursue those alternative methods and medicines. |
Well, that's sure one way to deal with the numbers... 
Good to see they are moving forward on the "death panel" ... I'm just hoping that they will at least let you select your "drug" of choice to go out on
....
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MrBillM
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Plan Ahead !
Exit Drugs (though not prescribed for that purpose) are plentiful now.
I'm prepared.
You can be too.
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Dave
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Very sincere, I'll bet
| Quote: | Originally posted by EmeraldDawn
Oh and I know a lady here who does cranio-sacral therapy. She is very sincere and probably can help with other things.
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P.T. Barnum was right.
I had to look that up. They call it CranioSacral therapy because if they called it a neck and back rub you couldn't get the big bucks.
Unless you offer a happy ending.
What is CranioSacral Therapy?
CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve
whole-body health and performance. It was pioneered and developed by Osteopathic Physician John E. Upledger after years of clinical testing and
research at Michigan State University where he served as professor of biomechanics.
Using a soft touch which is generally no greater than 5 grams – about the weight of a nickel – practitioners release restrictions in the soft tissues
that surround the central nervous system. CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease,
and it's effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction.
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Ateo
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If alt medicine worked it wouldn't be alt. It would be main stream. 99.9999999 BS.
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