Complementary medicine,

grabec · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:09 pm

and another Despatches to night....this time about Prince Charles, and no doubt featuring the dreadful 'Professor of Complementary Medicine', Edzard Ernst who is the Prince's best enemy.

We haven't debated complementary medicine yet, have we...not since I've been here anyway. To save time, can we start at the bit where we all agree therapists shouldn't be allowed to practise unless they're qualified...

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22572

Ive got a bad ankle and no matter how many compliments I give it, it never seems to get any better.

grabec · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:18 pm

Mr I wrote:

Ive got a bad ankle and no matter how many compliments I give it, it never seems to get any better.

I expect you sit around too much.....try giving it a bit of exercise.

Erm.....£20, please

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:20 pm

grabec wrote:

and another Despatches to night....this time about Prince Charles, and no doubt featuring the dreadful 'Professor of Complementary Medicine', Edzard Ernst who is the Prince's best enemy.

We haven't debated complementary medicine yet, have we...not since I've been here anyway. To save time, can we start at the bit where we all agree therapists shouldn't be allowed to practise unless they're qualified...

But who knows if the qualification held by a 'complimentary medical practitioner' is worth the paper it's written on?

grabec · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:28 pm

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

grabec wrote:

and another Despatches to night....this time about Prince Charles, and no doubt featuring the dreadful 'Professor of Complementary Medicine', Edzard Ernst who is the Prince's best enemy.

We haven't debated complementary medicine yet, have we...not since I've been here anyway. To save time, can we start at the bit where we all agree therapists shouldn't be allowed to practise unless they're qualified...

But who knows if the qualification held by a 'complimentary medical practitioner' is worth the paper it's written on?

Well, it is a bit of a minefield, but many therapies now have governing bodies which have been regulated by parliament, so that all their graduates must have had adequate training to practice. I suppose you trust them, while keeping a sceptical eye on the others.

SaigonSaddler · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:54 pm

It's a load of crap

SaigonSaddler · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:14 pm

MadJohn wrote:

So your man walks into a deserted bar and waits to be served when he hears a voice saying "ow, ye fat bastad". He looks around to find the source of the abuse but there's nobody in the bar. He waits. "Yeah you, lardarse". The voice appears to be coming from the somewhere near the cigarette dispenser, but there is no-one in the vicinity. At that point a thin voice pipes up "Don't listen to him, you're actually very slim and you have impressive abs. Do you work out?" To the man's astonishment the voice appears to be coming from a bowl of nuts that is lying on the bar.

The barman wanders in from the next room and the flustered customer (flustomer?) mentions the voices. "Yeah sorry about that mate. The peanuts are complementary, but the fag machine is out of order"

( tumbleweeds )

( coat ) :uhoh:

No stay there! I don't want you accidentally turning up on my doorstep with your anymore of your 'jokes' :wink:

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:19 pm

My Missus is a Chinese pharmacist. She works in a huge public hospital. Half of the stuff she dishes out would fall under the description of 'complementary medicine.' A lot of it seems to be in form of herbal soup. A lot of it seems to work as well as reflexology, acupuncture and massage.

Maybe the problem with complementary medicine in the UK is that it threatens the grip held over the NHS by the established pharmaceutical companies who trouser about 145Bn quid from the deal every year??

Any GP will tell you that 99% of diagnosis is guesswork, so they throw some expensive pills at you and you think you've been saved but all that's happened is that your natural immune system has cured you anyway.

Cancer is a bit of a bug ger like...... :roll:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:46 pm

I didn't get that last joke, Kev. :-o

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:46 pm

or had we stopped telling them by then?? confised

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:50 pm

There were these two Chinese pharmacists........ :laugh:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:55 pm

nah, it needs to start with, "Two Chinese blokes walk into a .........farm............- phurm...................chemists............."

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:07 pm

These two Chinese blokes walk into a pha--chemists.....

The first one said '百度一下，你就知道'

'百度网站' said the second one,'全球最大中文fanny 搜索引擎'

rolfl

Laugh?? I nearly spilt me 站

grabec · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:40 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

My Missus is a Chinese pharmacist. She works in a huge public hospital. Half of the stuff she dishes out would fall under the description of 'complementary medicine.' A lot of it seems to be in form of herbal soup. A lot of it seems to work as well as reflexology, acupuncture and massage.

Maybe the problem with complementary medicine in the UK is that it threatens the grip held over the NHS by the established pharmaceutical companies who trouser about 145Bn quid from the deal every year??

Any GP will tell you that 99% of diagnosis is guesswork, so they throw some expensive pills at you and you think you've been saved but all that's happened is that your natural immune system has cured you anyway.

Cancer is a bit of a bug ger like...... :roll:

Your missus sounds like a lady after me own heart (so to speak).
I got into 'complementary' methods after a year or so of excruciating pain, when my GP and various 'specialists' were absolutely useless. In desperation I consulted a reflexologist, and within 3 weeks the pain was gone.
I was so impressed I took a practitioners course myself ( tho rarely practice now). Who cares how it works, as long as it does?

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:16 am

Oh aye, I could take you back to Worksop and point at four of my mates who've suffered back pain for decades. In desperation one went for acupuncture, another went to a chiropractor, both under 25 quid for an hour and within a week the other two had followed them. Result, four happy pain free blokes.

It doesn't pay to ask too many questions though. My missus was noshing something the other day that had a familiar odour and when I checked the packet it was a mixture of creosote and belladonna.

Complementary medicine,

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