My Bath : Homeopathy

Personnel: Tom
Location: The Bathroom
Type of Recliner:  The Bath
Reason for Lounge: The pursuit of hygiene
Relative Comfort Rating: 5/5

Warm, soapy & submerged. I had a thought… I quickly stopped what i was doing and proceeded to consider it.

Is perhaps ‘the bath’ the perfect metaphor/parallel for ‘alternative medicine?

Now, i’m not exactly an anthropologist (by ‘exactly’ i mean ‘at all’) but when i imagine or read about neanderthals I tend to not picture them in the enamel plumbing fixture we all enjoy today. Obviously. But we can see how it made sense to invent something which would hold water so that we could bathe in the comfort of, both, the indoors and warm water. Obviously.

However, to this day, despite someone jumping on the hygiene bandwagon and came up with several improvements to the process (namely hoses and power showers), eliminating the need to sit and stew in our own filth, we still do.

It must be said that I actually much prefer a bath to a shower as, in this glorious age of modernity and the free world, it is my entitlement to. But it did make me think that there is a parallel (however wavering) to the use of alternative medicines.

Take for example Homeopathy. Proven time and time again, for nearly 200 years, to be a whole pile of male cow’s excrement. Yet, for several reasons (including, most prominently but in no particular order: ignorance, mis-education & idiocy), people still will go as far as arguing its use in the fight against AIDs, which i think is more than a horrific thought.

So despite the clear advantages to other methodologies ‘we’ still persist in using outdated, less effective ways of doing things.

Oh well. That was it really.

I thought maybe I’d commit a little more to some sort of conclusion but… apparently not.

Sent from my iBath