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Arsenic is an effective and relatively safe substance? That's very strange since it's used as a poison. That's the thing with herbal medicine, Chinese or otherw
by scorpioxy 11y ago
Arsenic is an effective and relatively safe substance? That's very strange since it's used as a poison. That's the thing with herbal medicine, Chinese or otherwise, the matter of toxicity.
Also, there isn't a lot of research into traditional medicine. The ones I can find often have conflicting results or simply state something along the lines of "shows promise". I wish there were more reliable studies to prove or debunk the stories we always hear about people who recovered from incurable and/or terminal diseases using traditional medicine. I guess there's isn't enough money to be generated from it.
I took an interest in medicinal herbs after using ginger tea to overcome nausea, a side effect of a drug i was taking at the time. The doctor wasn't very helpful, it worked very nicely. But my programmer-mind has trouble believing the folklore-ish stories about these herbs.
- phonon 11y agoSola dosis facit venenum!
- scott_karana 11y agoI loved how this doctor tested out hundreds of different alleged solutions, narrowed it down to the small handful potentially helpful ones, and then was able to successfully test and isolate a remedy. Fine, empirical science at its greatest.
- Illotus 11y agoThere is a lot of research into traditional medicine. It's just that when any form is found effective it becomes just medicine. Uneffective ones stay in the realm of traditional medicine. There was a quite nice editorial on the subject in Nature a while back http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7150/full/448106a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7150/full/448106a...