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> Research has been done, and has shown herbal medicines to not work Plenty of herbal medicines are effective. Which is why we need research to understand whic
by yosito 3y ago
> Research has been done, and has shown herbal medicines to not work
Plenty of herbal medicines are effective. Which is why we need research to understand which ones are, and which ones are bullshit.
- jiggawatts 3y agoWe have done this research, and the result is called "medicine" now instead of "herbal medicine". Aspirin used to be extracted from tree bark. Opium and morphine is the juice of the opium poppy. Penicillin is from a mould. Botox is from a bacteria. Heck, there's an entire subset of the pharma industry running around testing every damned plant, weed, and flower to see if it has some sort of useful effect! There's even been movies made about this! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/ We've tested herbal medicines, and use the pure extracts from those that do actually work every day in every country. That doesn't mean the guy selling dried tiger penis should be allowed to open shop next to a pharmacy and claim mysterious properties "unknown to science".