Wash your hair with a light vinaigrette.

Seriously, vinegar is a traditional shampoo--use a sweet scented mild vinegar, diluted.

Fights dandruff.

Beer's good too, but has too many calories for weight loss purposes.

The_Original_Roxtar: contact your naturopath about potential for any future glowing... maybe he or she can contact shiva's gardener regarding this matter.

The same Shiva that tore off his own head to drink the blood spurting from his neck? His garden must be AWESOME.

AbbeySomeone: Ah, you have no actual experience with holistic medicine but you can quote from a biased source. Perfect.
I have 20 years experience in this field but go ahead and enlighten with more cut and paste.

No need. I have common sense on my side. Anything that can affect the physical world falls under the domain of science. Naturopathy fails under scientific double-blind testing, and must instead latch on to mysticism and miscellaneous nuttery. You might as well take crayons and draw runes on your skin while burning herbs on the fire pit you're about to throw yourself on, for all the good it'll do.

Quack medicine is quack medicine. While you CAN polish a turd, in the end you're still holding a turd.

More copy/paste, sine you asked for it:

Scientific research has identified measurable, causative factors and specific methods of preventing and/or treating hundreds of health problems. Naturopaths have done little more than create glib generalities. The above theories are simplistic and/or clash with science-based knowledge of body physiology and pathology. For example:

* "Balance," "vitality," and "harmony with the body" are vitalistic concepts. Like "optimal health" or "supporting" of the body, these concepts are vague and cannot be objectively measured or scientifically tested.
* Whether infectious disease occurs depends on the degree of exposure to an infectious organism, the virulence of the organism, and the body's ability to resist. A person does not need to be "toxic" or "imbalanced" in order to catch a cold.
* Some diseases are an inevitable result of genetic make-up. Others have little to do with hereditary factors.
* The general concept of treating disease by "strengthening the immune system" clashes with the fact that in some conditions, such as allergies or autoimmune diseases, the immune system is overreactive.
* With respect to cancer, the notion that cancer reflects weakness of the immune system is false [6]. If it were true, people given immunosuppressant drugs to treat arthritis or prevent rejection of transplanted organs, or who are immunodeficient because of hereditary disease or AIDS, would be prone to develop the common cancers. Rather, they tend to develop unusual ones-such as Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS [7]. Naturopathy's claim that "natural methods" can treat cancer by strengthening the immune system is also unsubstantiated.
* Naturopaths pretend that precise medical treatment is less important than "maintaining body balance."

AbbeySomeone: You are delightfully ignorant.
9/10

No, that's what you assume in order to rationalize my non-acceptance of your particular quack medicine ritual. I've got the most caustic thing known to holistic medicine: Rational thinking.

Sorry. Holistic medicine is quackery. The evidence bears that out.

Nadie_AZ: Just don't use any. Wash daily with hot water. Let the natural oils of your hair keep it nice. Takes 3 to 4 weeks, tho.

Let the natural oils of your hair keep it clean instead of shampoo? Honey, I'm mostly from Greek lineage. We don't just get oily hair, we could WRING the oil out first thing in the morning. If your hair is dry, the non-shampoo thing could work for you, but us oilies NEED the shampoo.

/I do use organic shampoo and conditioner from Whole Foods though
//relevant to this thread

jvl: kiwimoogle84: I do use organic shampoo and conditioner from Whole Foods though

What brand and how does it taste?

It's just the Whole Foods brand- like "equate" for walmart and all that. And it's delicious!

/actually only tried it because it was on sale
//my point is still valid

Also, AbbeySomeone, in all seriousness, here:

I urge you to join the forums at the James Randi Educational Foundation. They're the folks that'll shell out 1 million bucks if you can prove something they consider paranormal. I think Naturopathy would fall under that. Additionally, I'm sure the folks there would love to have a Naturopath there to discuss things, especially one with 20 years in Naturopathy. Skeptics comprise a lot of the members there, as well as lots of scientists, doctors, ect. There's also people from the other side of the house: Pseudoscience, bigfoot hunters, reiki, reflexology, ect.

Basically it's a place where people from both sides of the issue can come in and discuss and debate things. Create a username there and open a Naturopathy thread, and I'd be happy to join it.

Of course it'd probably help if I gave you the address of the place. www.randi.org.

AbbeySomeone: I've heard of him.
Fark wastes enough time, I don't need another and I have no interest in proving anything..
Bigfoot might need reflexology tho..

Why do you believe in Naturopathy, if I may ask?

AbbeySomeone: Cpl.D: AbbeySomeone: I've heard of him.
Fark wastes enough time, I don't need another and I have no interest in proving anything..
Bigfoot might need reflexology tho..

Why do you believe in Naturopathy, if I may ask?

It saved my life when several allopathic specialists made it much worse.
Ya really.

How so?

AbbeySomeone: Don't care to go into it here and now.
Btw - clicked you. It figures.
My ex husband did 3 tours of Viet Nam.

What figures? And what does any of this have to do with me? Who I am or where I've been or what I've done literally have nothing to do with whether or not naturopathy works.

Also, another source of information to at least look over regarding naturopathy:

http://whatstheharm.net/naturopathy.html

Plenty of links therein to corresponding documentation.

AbbeySomeone: What figures? And what does any of this have to do with me? Who I am or where I've been or what I've done literally have nothing to do with whether or not naturopathy works.

I've got stuff to do but I will tell you that the VA gave him full disability while he was rotting away from cancer caused by toxins he was exposed to in the military.

Which toxin? How do you know it was caused by the toxin and not naturally occurring? What did the VA tell you regarding the origins of said cancer?

AbbeySomeone: Agent Orange.

The carcinogen that contained is tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. Do you think naturopathy has a method for removing tetrachlorodibenzodioxin from a human body? If so, via what mechanism?

What you did there.

nonzero: So, a thread about shampoo, has turned into a thread about naturopathy.
Which is both a sham and full of poo

I see it.

wildcardjack: WHERES MY RESEARCH GRANT!!!

[OldManHerbertOn] I've got your research grant right here, in my front pocket. But... my arthritis is acting up. Why don't you reach in there and fetch it yourself?[OldManHerbertOff]