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The problem is it's hard to make money off of those things. There's strong evidence suggesting papaya seeds are remarkably good for purging parasites from the d
by ng12 9y ago
The problem is it's hard to make money off of those things. There's strong evidence suggesting papaya seeds are remarkably good for purging parasites from the digestive system -- but why research it further when you can push Albendazole for $400/treatment?
- utkarshsinha 9y agoYou can sell papaya seeds for $200/treatment.
- dasil003 9y agoOnly until people find out they're papaya seeds and just go buy a papaya for $3.
- dboreham 9y agoThat papaya might not be safe though.
- danielvinson 9y agoWhy wouldn't a papaya be safe? Everything I've seen says that the seeds are always edible.
- nf05papsjfVbc 9y agoIn fact they have been used to adulterate stocks of black pepper since a long time.
- dboreham 9y agoIronic comment : Drug companies tell us we can't buy their products through other countries (at much lower cost) because "safety".
- dahidahi1 9y agoJust like that?? Papaya seeds are good, but the papaya itself is not safe? — this does not make sense anyway you look at it.
- 2muchcoffeeman 9y agoYou see a lot of turmeric and a ton of other spices and herbs in SE Asian cooking too. But I really wouldn’t say that these populations are particularly healthier. The idea that modern medicine is ‘playing catch-up’ is laughable. For every home remedy they get right, they probably get many others wrong. I agree drug companies are still fairly evil.
- ng12 9y ago> But I really wouldn’t say that these populations are particularly healthier How would you be able to tell?
- noir_lord 9y agoBy sampling them against other cultures, the same way we know Japanese people have lower rates of heart disease than western European/Americans.
- ng12 9y agoThat's not a useful avenue -- you have no control group. We can't compare people from India who eat a lot of curry to people from the US who don't: there are a million differences in diet, lifestyle, genetics, and environment that make it impossible to draw a conclusion about how it affects memory. Your example is a good one actually: we know Japanese men are less prone to heart disease, but we don't conclusively know why. We can guess it's related to certain factors, e.g. fish consumption, but we can't know just by comparing the two cultures.
- dahidahi1 9y agoJapan has a very close relationship to Vedic sciences. This has been established since ancient times. Look at their gods for example, almost all are 1:1 Vedic/Hindu gods - Ganesh, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kuber, Shiva, Yama etc.
- dahidahi1 9y ago> For every home remedy they get right, they probably get many others wrong. Ayurveda & any Vedic sciences are arguably as rigorous as today's sciences, if not more. You're are grossly mistaken if you think Ayurveda is a "home remedy".