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- From: rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D. Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Homeopathy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.223832.21360@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <6762@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Dec25.184036.123@Princeton.EDU> <6767@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:38:32 GMT
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- In article <6767@tuegate.tue.nl> wsadjw@urc.tue.nl writes:
- >In article <1992Dec25.184036.123@Princeton.EDU> rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D. Nelson) writes:
- >>includes asthma specifically, but there are some studies, e.g. Janssen,
- >
- >Over 25 years ago a lung specialist referred me to a physiotherapist,
- >to take breathing exercises and practising certain forms of relaxation.
- >It helped. Such methods are also in use today. I don't see so much news
- >in the approach sketched. And, the magazine you mention is typically
- >something to be found on the newsstands of New Age bookshops. That means
- >that their referees might be not too strict about proper experimental
- >design. If a Dutch researcher has something interesting to report, s/he
- >should try to get it into the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
- >(which appears every week, and which is read widely and has high standards).
- >
- >Yuk, how do I hate myself for rejecting unseen an article that might be
- >interesting, and that on Christmas.
- >
- I can see that. I considered suggesting that you might want to check
- the article, being conveniently located, but didn't do so, assuming you
- could volunteer yourself. You say there is no news here, but in fact
- there is a difference in having recommendations like those of your
- physiotherapist based on experience or tradition, and the more recent
- controlled studies. The latter are desirable and help optimize the
- former. I don't know whether Janssen's study is very high quality or
- not, but I do know its claimed results comform to a growing number of
- others. Not to mention the direct experience of _many_ asthma
- sufferers.
-
- Cheers, Roger
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