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Good herbal medicine does work. (“Turmeric in tea to reduce inflammation”) Bad herbal medicine doesn’t work. (“Sage smoke for spiritual cleansing”) Pharmaceut
by DecoPerson 6y ago
Good 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/