# Conventional vs Alternative Medicine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-vs-alternative-medicine/79392>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 2, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-vs-alternative-medicine/79392 "2001-09-02T07:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-vs-alternative-medicine/79392/2 "2001-09-02T08:19:05Z")

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Let’s get our cameras to Cecil’s location:

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000225.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000225.html)

Thank you Cecil.

In other news homeopathy is not quite effective:  
[http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?id=6580&StoryType=ReutersNews](http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?id=6580&StoryType=ReutersNews)

When it could work, the homeopathic medicine actually has something in it:  
[http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0904/zinc.html](http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0904/zinc.html)

I am still amazed that ads for the zinc lozenges blare that they are homeopathic when they do have measurable zinc in them (Each lozenge contains 13.3 mg of zinc). A true homeopathic medicine leaves the solutions with virtually nothing left of the material that is supposed to be the cure.

Back to you **Dan**.

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