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> Modern medicine is optimized for end results except thousands of common herbal remedies are replaced by patent medicine with legal controls, because $MONEY

atombender 4y ago
Which ones?
fundatus 4y ago
> except thousands of common herbal remedies are replaced by patent medicine with legal controls, because $MONEY Except they are not being replaced? Just like in the good old days™ you can still get out and collect the herbs you're looking for. It's just that nowadays we know that component X of a herbal remedy actually does the job so you just buy that in tablet form (or whatever) instead eating of the whole thing.
- mistrial9 4y ago
  > get out and collect the herbs you're looking for. on the small chance that you are not being sarcastic.. Our city here has >300,000 residents.. and most cities nearby are paved. Where do the herbs come from ?
  - gumby 4y ago
    People will collect them for you and sell them in bottles in the shops, you know.
  - John23832 4y ago
    They're still not being replaced... Not sure what you're getting at. If there is a flower in the Amazon with "heal all" properties, but it's only found in the Amazon, do you fault the company that creates a pill form and sells it in France? Big Pharma has it's problems, but it's done wonders for the availability of medicines for the vast majority of people on Earth.
  - waboremo 4y ago
    The same place herbs have always come from. If you don't want to step outside of your city or visit the local farms/greenhouses, then import. You can also import seeds, but it's up to you to ensure the seeds are the right ones and they have the proper environment they need to grow, and then the right tools to actually process those herbs in the "traditional" ways (or in your own experimental ways I suppose). Herbs aren't magic you know, you've come across many if you've walked through any trail. Although I wouldn't blindly go picking anything and everything you see, some are toxic!
elteto 4y ago
If anything the pseudo-scientific, barely regulated industry of "herbal" and "natural" remedies and supplements is booming right now and has been for two decades at least. Nobody is replacing anything, you can buy whatever you want.
- mistrial9 4y ago
  I dont think you know the history of the regulated drug industry, or computational pharmacology in California.
  - elteto 4y ago
    Do you?
    - mistrial9 4y ago
      two years writing code computational pharma here
      - elteto 4y ago
        Hardly a long career, no? :p

atombender 4y ago

Which ones?

fundatus 4y ago

> except thousands of common herbal remedies are replaced by patent medicine with legal controls, because $MONEY Except they are not being replaced? Just like in the good old days™ you can still get out and collect the herbs you're looking for. It's just that nowadays we know that component X of a herbal remedy actually does the job so you just buy that in tablet form (or whatever) instead eating of the whole thing.

mistrial9 4y ago
> get out and collect the herbs you're looking for. on the small chance that you are not being sarcastic.. Our city here has >300,000 residents.. and most cities nearby are paved. Where do the herbs come from ?
- gumby 4y ago
  People will collect them for you and sell them in bottles in the shops, you know.
- John23832 4y ago
  They're still not being replaced... Not sure what you're getting at. If there is a flower in the Amazon with "heal all" properties, but it's only found in the Amazon, do you fault the company that creates a pill form and sells it in France? Big Pharma has it's problems, but it's done wonders for the availability of medicines for the vast majority of people on Earth.
- waboremo 4y ago
  The same place herbs have always come from. If you don't want to step outside of your city or visit the local farms/greenhouses, then import. You can also import seeds, but it's up to you to ensure the seeds are the right ones and they have the proper environment they need to grow, and then the right tools to actually process those herbs in the "traditional" ways (or in your own experimental ways I suppose). Herbs aren't magic you know, you've come across many if you've walked through any trail. Although I wouldn't blindly go picking anything and everything you see, some are toxic!

elteto 4y ago

If anything the pseudo-scientific, barely regulated industry of "herbal" and "natural" remedies and supplements is booming right now and has been for two decades at least. Nobody is replacing anything, you can buy whatever you want.

mistrial9 4y ago
I dont think you know the history of the regulated drug industry, or computational pharmacology in California.
- elteto 4y ago
  Do you?
  - mistrial9 4y ago
    two years writing code computational pharma here
    - elteto 4y ago
      Hardly a long career, no? :p