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- From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
- Subject: Re: homeopaty... NBC's dateline
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.223557.6777@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:35:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.200023.28457@walter.bellcore.com> <6657@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Dec10.172102.6968@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1992Dec16.004108.6953@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <1649@tdat.teradata.COM>
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- In <1649@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
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- [deletion]
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- >It is my understanding that one *can* develope a tolerance ('immunity') to
- >arsenic over time by taking small, gradually increasing doses.
-
- >Of course this must be done *before* the fact, not afterwards as a cure.
- >Also, it involves *measurable* doses, increased over time to normally toxic
- >levels - quite different than the operation of homeopathic remedies.
-
- >(Actually, I suspect that this is *not* an immune type response, just an increased
- >tolerance for the substance).
-
- >--
- >sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima)
- > or
- >Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
-
- It's my understanding that increased cyanide tolerance, rather
- than being an immune response, is the result of increased production
- of (liver?) enzymes which detoxify heavy metals, stimulated by the
- earlier doses. This of course does not in any way support the
- ludicrous homeopathic therapy model.
-
-
- --
- Carl Fink carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
- "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
- inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
- the state of facts and evidence" -- John Adams
-