Yeah, my guess is that (as with many other "home remedies" the patient would have recovered anyway. That's how a lot of the remedies get started...someone tries something as a remedy on a patient that would have recovered without treatment and because the patient lived, they figure the treatment must have worked....unless, of course, the treatment kills a patient that would have otherwise lived. The real danger to this kind of thing is that often real treatment is delayed or foregone while home remedies are used and a patient that could have lived with real treatment dies because of it.

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• looking for input from BGF - repmedic, Wed Nov 19 12:54:36 2003
• RE: looking for input from BGF - BGF, Wed Nov 19 18:11:20 2003
• RE: looking for input from BGF - Rattler456, Thu Nov 20 09:03:39 2003
• RE: looking for input from BGF - WK, Thu Nov 20 11:40:36 2003
• A nice illustration of t.o important points: - WW, Thu Nov 20 00:01:06 2003
• Ignore this post, read the other n/p - WW, Thu Nov 20 00:06:03 2003
• This post illustrates two important points: - WW, Thu Nov 20 00:04:59 2003
• RE: This post illustrates two important points: - repmedic, Thu Nov 20 05:47:37 2003
• RE: This post illustrates two important points: - oldherper, Thu Nov 20 07:58:26 2003
• Another point... - Larry D. Fishel, Thu Nov 20 14:16:08 2003