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As effective as western versions, and often even identical but in a far less controlled form. Also often just as toxic.
by rscho 7y ago
As effective as western versions, and often even identical but in a far less controlled form. Also often just as toxic.
- coldtea 7y ago>and often even identical but in a far less controlled form I dunno, I'd trust something used for centuries (given it doesn't kill its users) over something hastily discovered, sorta understood, and rushed to market (after being extracted and distilled in the most potent chemical form) for profit... At least traditional remedies/drugs don't have the "let's rush this to make a buck" nor the profit motive involved (well, people selling them today want to make a profit, but I'm talking about actual traditional drugs, used for millennia, and which anybody could e.g. just grow/distill/whatever in their country, so there was no exclusivity thing)...
- simiones 7y agoThe problem is that many "traditional" remedies/drugs such as those found in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine have the "this must work based on a priori magical/philosophical knowledge, so no amount of evidence that it kills patients / does nothing at all will convince us to stop" problem. There very likely are traditional remedies that absolutely do work, but those lie more in folk remedies (especially use of native plants in teas), which tend to be slow trial-and-error over generations, rather than formal systems based on magical principles.