Do you think maybe your rhetoric is unnecessarily vitriolic?

Didn't mean it to come across that way, but I can see your beef. I never meant to insinuate that I don't believe your anecdote, because I certainly do. I respect you immensely, and generally take your claims as gospel.

When I have failed to acquire enough personal experiences to make up my mind one way or the other on something as scientific (or at least potentially scientific) as practicing medicine, I defer to scientific consensus. Such was the case, in this instance.

Is there something going with homeopathic medicine worth studying? Probably. So why aren't we doing so? $'s. Similar concept to medical marijuana. If the shit you need is growing/growable in your backyard, lovely capitalism has little incentive to fund studies. Am I wrong?

Also worth noting; Just because I'm attacking homeopathy doesn't necessarily mean that I'll blindly defend western medicine. FDA approval doesn't mean shit, other than the company pushing the drug has a sizable reserve of money. We've killed handfuls of people after a drug "passed" clinical trials.

My apologies if you felt that I was attacking you, your intelligence, or your story, because I had no such intention. I certainly did intend to attack the theories behind homeopathy, but not claims of results, here and there.

Yesterday, I apologized to my mother for questioning her intentions of making me feel better. So at least I'm that far.

I might look into this "magic vaseline", I've got a gnarly contusion brewing where the skimboard smacked into my shin on an incoming wave with some serious force. Like with most drugs, the best guinea pig for determining how it will affect me is... myself.

P.S. [AltMedz2theXtreme] Ever been on CureZone, where people periodically tell others to drink their own piss? "Not feeling better yet? Keep drinking your own pee, it gets better before it gets worse." Yikes. Hope that never made it onto any subreddits.

Edit: Ah, I can see how you thought I lumped you in with the average dumbdumb. My bad. Shouldn't multitask when I'm making an argument.