On 12/6/10 3:57 PM, carole wrote:
"Bob Officer"-*-*.@.*-*- wrote in message ...

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OH that is much too slow a process to work effectively. The These is
why other people continually tell carole, she needs to get a good
foundation in body chemistry, physiology, and biology to fully
participate in these forums.


Arrogant attitude.
As if nobody can possibly know anything about health without such knowledge.
This is very ugly of you bob, especially in an alternative health group.


The Philosophical and Historical Roots of Holistic Approaches to Health
22/12/2005


The fact that you post this shows that you don't have any idea about how
the body works, what causes disease, or much knowledge in human biology
or science.

That's what you need to understand medicine.

And just philosophical crap.

Jeff

http://www.naturalmatters.net/articl...icle=879&cat=4
"The Empirical school of thought held different assumptions about the ways of acquiring knowledge on health,
disease, and the treatment of disease. It did not look for nor seek to understand the causes of disease. It
sought and developed ways that worked whether or not the practitioner understood at first why the methods
worked. Although Empirical practitioners usually had theories on how and why their methods worked, they
recognized that their theories were always secondary to the fact that the method worked. Over long periods of
time and through close observations, empirical practitioners developed their own time tested and systematic
health practices that were not based on an analytical understanding of cause and effect.

The Rationalist school, of which modern medicine is the latest development, has claimed the title of being the
"scientific" medicine. At the same time, it asserted that other approaches to understanding health and to the
treatment of disease were unscientific and were often to be considered as "quackery." The meaning and
significance of scientific methodology are discussed in detail in volumes II and III of Divided Legacy.

Coulter points out that although the Rationalists explained why their methods worked or didn't work, their
explanations were soon disproven and were replaced by a new set of "facts."

It should be clarified that the definition and the historical use of the word "empirical" refers to the
dependence upon observation and experience alone without the use of theory or reductionistic methodology.
Although modern medicine is considered a highly empirical science, it is much more rationally based than
empirically based. "