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Without knowing the details of what ails you, may I suggest that you try Indian Ayurveda medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine?

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I guess I’m open to it but it’s not clear what that would mean. Currently I’m undergoing a lot of western medical diagnosis because it’s unclear if something more serious is wrong with me than celiac disease. My idea is to use their diagnosistic and analytic ability (radiological scans, blood tests) but not necessarily seek treatment. Non-specialist doctors and non-medical practitioners often are very uninformed about celiac disease. I’m currently being evaluated by one of the world’s leading experts. If my problem is celiac the primary (only) treatment is completely avoiding gluten, which is tough to do entirely. I’ve been doing much better on an extremely strict diet of chicken, cocoa, honey, spirulina and minerals.

To those down voting or equating Ayurveda with Quackery - The amount of downvotes shows me that there is a lack of awareness of what Ayurveda and TCM truly are. These use plants and herbs to heal. They are not some sort of quackery. There are Ayurveda universities in India. Ayurveda tourism is rather popular with folks from the West. Do read up about it. It would also be relatively inexpensive for you - a holiday in India coupled with what is essentially a health spa.

To code_duck: Does having vegetables help - is that non-gluten? I have no grains or cereals, and just have lots of vegetables (leafy and non-leafy) and food with fat in it (e.g. avocados). This has helped me lose about 25 kilos of body fat, and I'm on my journey to cut down another 7.5 kilos of body fat.

I have a serious medical condition involving gut issues. You are welcome to email me if you want to talk.

Don't mind the downvotes. People here are not able to think outside their "its not western-science" box. good suggestion though, I'd definitely recommend the same

He gets downvoted because it mainly falls in the same category as homeopathy, so if it has reproducible effects it no longer falls under homeopathy or 'traditional medicine' but just as regular medicine. People have to stop putting faith in this quackery and look at stuff that is tested and proven.

One problem is that western medicine is vulnerable to forms of quackery like misleading regulatory applications and falsified testing. Also, when you have a rare condition there is not necessarily a body of medical work out there to reference.

nevermind the fact that there are ayurvedic hospitals and clinics in India nation-wide, as it as accepted as an alternative way of practicing medicine since thousands of years. I always find these statements ridiculous to say the least, I know personally so many people that got healed by your so called "quackery" that I just feel like laughing at this arrogant ignorance

If it's so efficient, why can't it pass various common tests vs placebo and so on ?

Maybe we can actually heal a lot of stuff on our own anyways and the use of alternative medicines is just a concomittant hazard.

perhaps because it doesnt work in the same way as your standard medicine does, and as such, the same testing procedures can not be applied?

western science is extremely limited, and mainly because of arrogance and superiority complex.

yes we DO heal a lot of stuff on our own, and what things like homeopathy and ayurveda do is exactly to help your body do the healing by itself, with just a gentle help.

I'm sorry, but you start with a supposed treatment for a certain disease.

You give proper treatment to some people, and you give a placebo to others. Then you check if there's any difference.

I don't see how that would work with western medicine and not with homeopathy and ayurvedic medicine. Please explain.

The Western approach of "one disease at a time" is not how Eastern Medicine works.

While I am not an authority on whether such double blind tests have been performed or not, I do know that the Eastern medicine systems have been in use for a few thousand years. There are proper University courses, regular practitioners, and thousands of success stories.

Do look up Ayurveda.

Without controls and blind tests, I can understand how folks fool them selves into thinking something like that can work. Its no different from witchcraft and other magical thinking - "I did X and Y happened. I conclude X caused Y!" Whether its poking pins in a doll, or poking pins in people, things are more complicated than that, especially medicine.

> Without controls and blind tests, I can understand how folks fool them selves into thinking something like that can work.

Fooling themselves is perfectly possible with controls and blind tests too..

yes, do stay inside your little box

Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

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Yes sorry I too could have resisted baiting. I will try to do better.

Appreciated!

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