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CEASE therapy or homeopathy, any luck?

terrorhawk

Hi everyone,

I'm new on here so please be gentle. 

I have a 9 year old daughter diagnosed with ASD when she was 4.  She has alot of the common problems-speech delay, global developmental delay, poor fine and gross motor skills, poor communication/comprehension, sensory problems...etc etc.

She used to be much more severly affected by her condition, especially her sensory ones which have subsided with therapies and general organic improvement and being desensitised by life in general.

A few years ago we had a consultation with Jonathan Toomey and picked up alot of tips about how to change our lives, a lot of which we did.  Prior to this we already had our daughter on high doses of fish oils which made a marked difference.

I came across homeopathy in the form of teething powders for grizzly babies (sure most people have used them).  My youngest has severe reactions to antibiotics and I needed to find any alternative safe form of medicine and remembered the teething powders I'd used on all my children with great success for many years.

I have since bought a few books, read articles online and bought myself a little kit to use at home.  I've used it countless times with excellent results.....how does it work?!  No idea!!!  To be honest, I don't care, I just know that on some weird level, it does!

Anyway, I have now stumbled across something called CEASE therapy which seems to be abit harsher than classical homeopathy.  I'm dubious about trying this as don't want bad reactions for my daughter but interested to know if anyone has used it and what the outcome was.

Thanks for any comments.

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  • terrorhawk said:
    as I'm concerned, we live in an illogical world full of things that we cannot explain with science.  

    I know of very few things that cannot be explained by Science, please cite some for me. 

    People talk of the placebo effect, this cannot apply to babies as thousands of mothers all over the world use homeopathic teething powders to comfort their children, and it works!  I don't care how it works, I only care that it does!

    How do you "know" it works? No scientific study has shown any effect from homeopathic treatment. 

    On the other hand the placebo effect is much more complicated than most people realise. If the person who gives you the (sugar) pills is wearing a white coat they will work better, if you are told they are expensive they will work better, if you are told they are expensive and that the blue must be taken after the red etc they will work better.

    If the person who gives the pills out knows which one has the active* ingredients in then it alters the results. This is exactly the reason why scientific trials have to be double blind ie the people treating the patients must not know what they are treating them with.

    *Of course in the case of homeopathy there is no "active" ingredients in the "remedies", even if the ingredient added would have had an effect it has been so diluted that there are no molecules in any one course of "treatment".

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  • terrorhawk said:
    as I'm concerned, we live in an illogical world full of things that we cannot explain with science.  

    I know of very few things that cannot be explained by Science, please cite some for me. 

    People talk of the placebo effect, this cannot apply to babies as thousands of mothers all over the world use homeopathic teething powders to comfort their children, and it works!  I don't care how it works, I only care that it does!

    How do you "know" it works? No scientific study has shown any effect from homeopathic treatment. 

    On the other hand the placebo effect is much more complicated than most people realise. If the person who gives you the (sugar) pills is wearing a white coat they will work better, if you are told they are expensive they will work better, if you are told they are expensive and that the blue must be taken after the red etc they will work better.

    If the person who gives the pills out knows which one has the active* ingredients in then it alters the results. This is exactly the reason why scientific trials have to be double blind ie the people treating the patients must not know what they are treating them with.

    *Of course in the case of homeopathy there is no "active" ingredients in the "remedies", even if the ingredient added would have had an effect it has been so diluted that there are no molecules in any one course of "treatment".

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