German doctors are probably among the best in the world......they will tell you that and the public generally believes the 'status' of the comment. My personal belief is that they probably are at the same level as American doctors. There are a few differences in medical beliefs and practices that tend to pop up....like Homeopathic medicine.
Somewhere down the line in the 1700s....within Germany....Homeopathic practice started up. The basic idea? Your body is capable of doing a lot of great things and you need to practice some good habits and let it go on cruise-control.
So, they hype up a balanced diet....less meat....heavy on vegetables....and wine somewhere in the mix (in moderate portions of course). They talk up the use of herbal remedies....lots of tea usage....moderate walking/hiking.....and baths (this is how Wiesbaden got into the spa business originally).
In the middle of all of this Homeopathic medicine.....are globules. These are Schuessler salts or referred to as Bach Flower Therapy. If you looked at a container.....you'd say these were tiny M&M-like....often referred to as "beads".
What I'll generally say about the Bach Flower Therapy is that the German doctor who devised this.....said there were nineteen different emotional states of the mind (he says he did a fair amount of survey to arrive at this analysis). This was part of a trend in the 1930s.....generating different views on medicine. So the globules or Bach Flower Therapy....come mostly from an assortment of flowers (Wild Rose and Willow are among them.....I won't waste a lot of time listing all of the thirty-seven flowers in the group), and mountain spring water. That's it.....nothing else.
You can get the globules in this form, or in a sugar-like form. Don't ask me the difference in terms of effect.
So you'd come across a doctor who would prescribe this as part of his Homeopathic practice (it would one of dozens of concepts to utilize).
Success or failure of the globules or Bach Flower Therapy? Well.....in the eighty-odd years since introduction....NO one has ever proven that this area of Homeopathic medicine with the globules work. What is generally believed is that continued usage and positive thinking that they work (like sugar pills).....come out as a positive. Long term usage and effect? Nothing negative, but nothing positive either.....at least if you look around and ask questions.
How did this guy arrive at 37 different flowers mixed into this therapy? Unknown. Maybe he bumped into someone in Bavaria who had an old mixture that grandma made up or just accidentally came to this conclusion.
As for the bulk of Homeopathic medicine? It's a divided audience in Germany. Some doctors readily utilize the ideas and suggest different gimmicks for their patients. Some readily discount the whole thing as a fraud. In general, if you ate better, drunk more water, threw in a glass of wine here and there, kept your weight down, walked two miles a day, didn't smoke, and enjoyed less stress.....you'd generally live longer. It's a statistical thing. By flipping this into a whole concept and stressing various elements as a practice....maybe that's all you need in life.
Homeopathic medicine ideas featured on German TV? Occasionally, these guys slip through the cracks and get an interview or time to spell out these ideas. The regular medical establishment isn't that happy with them but they haven't been able to stop the practices or outlaw anything. Some Germans will swear that certain things work for them.
That's the thing with globules.....a gimmick of sorts for your health. You might bump into a German neighbor or some associate who brags about their success with Homeopathic concepts. Don't be skeptical of the person.....but don't readily accept it as some scientific breakthrough. Bottom line.....it won't hurt you.
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