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"It has recommended one doze of the medicine daily on empty stomach for three days. The dose should be repeated after one month by following the same schedule in case flu like conditions prevail in the area."

-- The Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), a state-run research wing in India, giving it's never-changing recommendation ("Arsenicum album 30") for how to approach an illness - in this case, the influenza A (H1N1) virus, AKA "the pig flu" - though it's running rampant throughout the homeopathy-crazed countryside, according to Sify.com.

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Here's some great news from the homeopathy front:

"India's swine flu death toll on Thursday rose to 20, as thousands of schools, colleges and cinemas shut down in and around the country's financial capital Mumbai to combat the spread of infection.

The latest victim of the A(H1N1) virus was a 26-year-old woman in the southern city of Bangalore while an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old woman died in the western city of Pune, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

Pune, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Mumbai, has been the worst hit Indian city, with 12 deaths and a cluster of infections.

Two people have died in Mumbai and about 2,000 people have been confirmed to have the virus across the country, the health ministry said.

The deaths come as Indians prepare for a long weekend, with the popular Hindu festival of Krishna Janmashtmi on Friday and Independence Day celebrations on Saturday.

Krishna Janmashtmi, or Dahi Handi as it is called in Mumbai, typically brings hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets to mark the birth of the god Krishna and to watch spectacular human pyramid formations.

Mumbai is also scheduled to hold its annual gay pride march on Sunday."

Why is this such "great" news? Because, as it states here, here, and here, homeopathy is either a cure for swine flu, or it'll act to prevent it, and India (like France) is a major homeopathy proponent. Plus, the people saying this are NewAge doctors - medical professionals - not members of the Insane Clown Posse. You can trust 'em.

So, go - take your magic pills, pray to Krishna, ponder human pyramid schemes (!) and be sure to "mingle" - because all of your NewAge friends, in and out of medicine, have assured us everything will be just fine-and-dandy:

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"Shit wrapped in gold foil smells just the same as shit in a brown bag tied with twine."

-- PalMD, on The Huffington Post's adding a bullshit disclaimer to an article on quackery for the swine flu - which includes (according to one commenter) "homeopathy, yoga, random plants, reflexology, chakras and advice to avoid real medicine" - which is so fucking kind of them we could just fucking scream, like we're a member of the White Coat Underground ("whatever that is").

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"The virus does not become resistant to homeopathy because we don't treat the virus. We treat the vital force, the immune system, so then it takes care of the virus, whatever it is."

-- Jacob Mirman, a "doctor" of a "Homeopathic Medical Clinic' ("whatever that is") detailing the raging stupidity out there ("whatever it is") provided by the ragingly stupid Health News Track.

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"It was once said that a black man would be president when pigs fly.

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Swine flu."

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"If you rely on public transportation with no other options when an epidemic sweeps into town, public transportation is practically designed to amplify it.  Where else will hundreds of strangers have to squeeze up against each other for minutes or hours every day?  Even airplanes leave you some personal space.  You don’t have to hold onto a rail on an airplane, either, one handled by God-knows-how-many sick people before you boarded the bus or train."

-- Ed Morrissey, making us hope places like San Francisco - that promote public transportation and illegal immigrants from Mexico - are listening, because swine flu is some pretty Hot Air.