The rabies miasm
Dr Jen Gunter finds another jaw-dropper: a “naturopath” using “a remedy made from a rabid dog’s saliva” to fix aggression in a 4-year-old boy.
At first I asked if this was from The Onion, because honestly after reading I wasn’t sure.
But no, Dr. Zimmerman is really a naturopath and, well, this is how she summarized the problem…
This is a 4-year-old boy who is suffering from an inability to fall asleep at night, a fear of the dark, of wolves, werewolves, ghosts and zombies and who frequently hides under tables and growls at people. He is overly excitable and has a tendency to defiance. He was normal as a baby, not affected by sleep or temper problems.
Rabies-drool for him then!
Dr. Zimmerman’s diagnosis was a previous bite from a dog recently vaccinated with rabies thus affecting “the boy with the rabies miasm.”
I am totally sure that was first on every pediatrician’s list as well.
I had to look up “miasm” because it sounded like a totally made up word. A miasma is “the ghost of the disease state still rampant in the energy system.” So it’s a word for a totally made up illness. Rabies is a killed virus, so I guess the ghost of rabies walks among those who have been vaccinated just looking to infect victims? That sounds more like a zombie, but perhaps I’m splitting hairs.
No perhaps about it. You’re supposed to go with it, humming peacefully; otherwise it won’t work.
At first I thought, okay, she is some rogue homeopathy but, yeah, nope. HuffPost in Canada e-mailed the homeopathic board that oversees Dr. Zimmerman and as far as they are concerned DILUTE RABIES SALIVA IS A LEGIT HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
The naturopathic board told HuffPost, “Lyssinum is not excluded from the pharmacopoeia for naturopathic doctors in B.C. Homeopathy, which includes the use of substances such as lyssinum, is a traditional modality with a long history in the naturopathic scope of practice; it is still used by some naturopathic doctors today.”
What tf is a “modality” in this context? Just an impressive-sounding word for “we’re making it up as we go”?
The thing that bothers me the most though is naturopaths also push Lyssin/Lyssinium as a way to vaccinate animals against rabies. Put aside the idea that they believe the vaccination of a dog and the treatment of a child’s behavior requires the exact same medicine and just think about the damage that could be done if more people stop vaccinating their dogs and cats against rabies, a disease with essentially a 100% mortality that is also essentially 100% preventable.
This whole idea would be ridiculous if it were not so enraging.
Or it’s both at the same time, like so many things right now.
Where are they getting the rabid-dog saliva from? Inquiring minds want to know!
I think they milk it out of snake’s teeth. . .
“Where are they getting the rabid-dog saliva from?”
Maybe they did a homeopathic dilution from the pulp of a few pages fro “Old Yeller.” Or perhaps they held a vial of water up in front of a television showing the movie. Either approach would be equally effective.
Hahahahaha
Gunter speculates
<blockquote.Naturopaths who use this must believe that somewhere, at some point in time after 1895 some brave naturopath was able to get saliva from a rabid dog without getting rabies and then handle the virus safely to dilute it out of existence.
Since the viral nature of rabies wasn’t known before 1895? I think not, since the Materia Medica is passed down like holy writ from Hahnemann. Has anything been added or removed? I don’t think anyone could legally gather a sample now, so homeopaths must rely on old stocks, not that that would make any difference.
And ‘miasms?’ I thought homeopaths were still claiming all disease were caused by ‘psora,’ or ‘itch in English.