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And that's another good discussion, on how old knowledge attracts attention from pharma companies and some try to earn patents and all sort of protections from
by woliveirajr 10y ago
And that's another good discussion, on how old knowledge attracts attention from pharma companies and some try to earn patents and all sort of protections from those "new products".
I read sometime ago about India (?) releasing lots of ancient documentation about old medicines, as a knowledge base, exactly to protect the population from those kind of problems.
- fma 10y agoHere is a recent one: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chinese-herbal-therapy-malaria-wins-part-nobel-prize-medicine/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chinese-herbal-therapy-m... "Tu was appointed director of Project 523 in 1969, and rather than sift through modern chemicals for a treatment, she scanned ancient Chinese texts for possible herbal remedies for malaria. The earliest description for the parasitic blood disorder comes from Chinese medical texts dating to 2,700 BCE. She found one promising candidate in a 2,000-year-old document that described how sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) could heal malaria."