Dispensary Corner 14 Sep 15
September 14, 2015
PsychEde lic homeopathy.
A European conference
discussing alternative medicines
including homeopathy - which
is generally considered at least
innocuous - had unwelcome
attention as 29 delegates were
found in various stages of extreme
reaction to a product they had
ingested during the meeting.
The reactions ranged from
violent convulsions to delusions
and hallucinations.
“There must have been a
multiple overdose,” Torsten
Passie, a member of a German
government commission on
narcotics, told NDR television.
“That argues against the people
being aware what they were
taking.”
Doctors, as well as homeopaths
and alternative medicine
practitioners were reportedly
among the victims of what proved
to be a form of amphetamine
banned in Germany last year.
A Thai doctor has saved the life
of a female Chinese visitor to
Bangkok, using a colonoscope to
remove a massive foreign object
from her large intestine.
However the woman may
not be so happy about the
outcome - because the item in
question was a diamond worth
over US$250,000 that she had
been accused of stealing from a
jewellery fair.
According to Associated Press
officers got to the bottom of the
theft after arresting the woman
as she attempted to leave the
country, based on surveillance
video from the fair.
The doctor was called in after
“nature and laxatives” failed to
produce any evidence - with a
rock-hard case confirmed when
the doctor pulled the 6 carat
gemstone from the woman’s
digestive system.
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