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"rubbing a foamy mixture of saliva and leaf onto specific parts of the body. Interestingly, the local indigenous human population also use a poultice of these l
by TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
"rubbing a foamy mixture of saliva and leaf onto specific parts of the body. Interestingly, the local indigenous human population also use a poultice of these leaves for the relief of body pains."
Or:
"Herbal medicine doesn't work"...
I bet you all $25,000 of my own money and two decades of my life that it does work.
How do you think we got where we are?
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI'll condede though, herbs will never be as powerful as pharmacologically extracted and concentrate and modified / enhanced molecules. Both have their place.
- Tepix 6y agoHerbs can kill you. Powerful enough, isn't it?
- DecoPerson 6y agoGood herbal medicine does work. (“Turmeric in tea to reduce inflammation”) Bad herbal medicine doesn’t work. (“Sage smoke for spiritual cleansing”) Pharmaceuticals work so much better in most cases. This all gets (incorrectly) summarised to: “Herbal medicine doesn’t work.”
- ketamine__ 6y agoTumeric seems unlikely to work. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/curcumin-will-waste-your-time https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cu...
- temp0826 6y agoSage smoke allegedly kills airborne bacteria, fwiw https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17913417/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17913417/
- Angostura 6y agoHerbal medicine that works tends to be called 'medicine' once it has been corroborated and the active ingredient(s) have been isolated. Unfortunately, this tends to mean that what you are left with - the herbal remedies with dubious efficacy - get left with the herbal remedy tag.
- Ensorceled 6y ago“Herbal medicine sometimes does more harm than good, sometimes only works by the placebo effect, sometimes only relieves symptoms and masks the underlying disease, sometimes has been turned into effective medicine, sometimes has better modern alternatives, sometimes is just entirely useless and rarely just works.” ... is too long to write out.
- f6v 6y agoDigging up roots with a wooden stick works as well, and got us going for thousands of years. It's just that technology makes everything more efficient.
- dtech 6y agoNumerous modern medicine is derived from plants or traditional herbal medicine. Aspirin is the most famous example, it's the active ingredient of willow-based remedies. It's still a bad idea to drink willow-bark tea in lieu of taking an aspirin nowadays.