Reply #5: Not that different actually from... trusting the barber to do a small

[nadinbrzezinski]

surgery in the sixteenth century involving some bleeding.

Now you put the finger on it, people are afraid, and they are 'fraid for the same reason the Communities in old Mejico were afraid of the Spanish (and a few Criollo) Enlightenment doctors going around sticking them with cow pox. They didn't understand what this was about. Oh and if you asked those doctors to explain WHY this worked. they'd not be able to explain it to you. Today, any descent health care provider will be able to explain to you what is going on.

The vaccine is using enough components of the virus to make your body react to it creating immunity. Yes, it is that simple.

As to the H1N1... as long as it does not mutate...

Me, high risk group... also former medic... so I guess I have a leg up on most consumer of medical products. And I used to chase kids south of the border to give them their vaccines for all kinds of things we all kids got vaccines for. You did as well, when you were a kid. So you know.

Mind you, when I was readying this material I was also part of the teams doing the vaccination campaigns and at times we saw very similar reactions to those I read about. It is just scary that I am seeing them in a population that is supposedly more "modern."

I'd hazard to say the US is, in that sense, as "primitive" as some of our native populations. Oh and I do not use the primitive in a bad way. I love traditional medicines, and we need to do far more work into how they work and why. Hell, Lasix... to use a well used and well trodden medication in the western medicine catalog comes from a plant, it used to be tended at medical schools all over Europe until we started making the damn thing in the lab.

So yes, I want to know how chamomile works, and why... not just to help you sleep. It is a smooth muscle relaxant... and that is why it works for tummy aches.