Discussion of homeopathy influence on Tina Turner’s illness

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A tweet by SPD politician Karl Lauterbach on Thursday (June 24) opened a debate about Tina Turner’s long-standing suffering. The singer suffered a stroke in 2009, found out in 2016 about a serious cancer that would accompany her until her death, and received a kidney donation from her husband Erwin Bach.

Turner’s medical records might have looked completely different if the musician had responded to her rising blood pressure with medication and not with homeopathic therapy. The Federal Minister of Health indicated this with reference to an article in which Turner himself reflected on the consequences of her decision.

So the singer wrote for that European Kidney Forum: “My kidneys are victims of the fact that I have denied the fact that my high blood pressure requires conventional medical treatment. I put myself in grave danger by refusing to accept the fact that I would need medication every day for the rest of my life. For far too long I have thought of my body as an invulnerable and indestructible bastion.”

She was diagnosed with high blood pressure back in 1978, but didn’t bother to keep it under control with the help of pills. Turner: “After suffering a stroke in 2009 due to poorly controlled high blood pressure, I struggled to get back on my feet. That’s when I first learned that my kidneys weren’t working as well. They had already lost thirty-five percent of their function. I tried to learn more about the function and importance of these organs. Most people probably don’t even know where their kidneys are and what they are for until their health is at stake.”

High blood pressure not taken seriously

Tina Turner did take medication, but according to her own statements, she stopped taking it at some point because she missed a life without being dependent on the pills. On recommendation, she consulted a doctor in France, who treated her homoeopathically and advised her, above all, to drink a lot.

“I had no idea that uncontrolled high blood pressure would make my kidney disease worse and that losing control of my blood pressure would kill my kidneys,” Turner wrote in the article. “I would never have replaced my medication with homeopathic alternatives if I had known how much was at stake for me. Thanks to my naivety, I was at a point where it was a matter of life and death.”

Symptoms she blamed on the medication, “such as fatigue, nausea, or occasional irritability,” were actually signs of her end-stage kidney disease.

On Twitter, it is now primarily pointed out that Lauterbach is using the sad death of Tina Turner to further fuel a political debate – namely that of whether homeopathic healing methods should no longer be reimbursed by statutory health insurance companies. One user, here representative of numerous others, wrote:

Many Twitter users therefore refer to Tina Turner as a victim of homeopathy.

Of course, advocates of homeopathic procedures see things differently and criticize the fact that the Federal Minister of Health assesses a complex medical case from a distance and uses it for his political goals.

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