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The "spirit of the plant" wasn't a straw man? What I mean is that _in cases where plants could have advantage over modern medicine_, they often do so because o
by stiff 14y ago
The "spirit of the plant" wasn't a straw man?
What I mean is that _in cases where plants could have advantage over modern medicine_, they often do so because of their complex chemical constitution that can produce those kinds of synergies, where modern medicines are most often based on at most 2-3 active substances because we have trouble analyzing more complex interactions.
- Nursie 14y agoNo, it was a poke at magical thinking. It may also have been unwarranted snark... I'll agree that where it can be shown that a plant has an effect that modern medicine can't explain, complex interactions may well be at work. You gave me the impression that you think this is a general rule, where really it seems to be an exception.