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> How about centuries-old practice instead? Centuries-old practice had people leeching the vile humors out of their bodies when they got sick, too. The ancien
by xenophonf 12y ago
> How about centuries-old practice instead?
Centuries-old practice had people leeching the vile humors out of their bodies when they got sick, too. The ancients got a lot of stuff wrong, and what they got right was largely by accident. I'll trust scientific rigor along with the confidence intervals and error bars over received wisdom every time.
Also, here's a link to a Pubmed article on chicken soup:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002768/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002768/
Nothing about breaking down the cell walls of vegetables to release the nutrients, so I don't know if that's true.
And here's another Pubmed article about soup, highlighting the danger of food fads (because people don't want to wait for nutritional science to prove something and instead rely on the "test of the ages"):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279073/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279073/
- kolev 12y agoI meant to say "practices that survived till nowadays". Your position of "PubMed it or it didn't happen" is really entertaining.
- xenophonf 12y agoHomeopathy has survived until nowadays, despite a lack of evidence of efficacy. You also mis-characterize my position on PubMed. It is a search engine with which I am familiar, not the summation of all scientific medicine. If I can't find something in PubMed, my thoughts on a matter remain "dunno", which is orthogonal to "believe/disbelieve" or "accept/reject". I included links to PubMed articles on soup as a humorous rejoinder to your rhetorical question. That was probably unnecessary, and I apologize.
- kolev 12y agoWell, homeopathy, Dr. Schuessler's salts, and Dr. Bach's flower remedies are most probably just a placebo, which is better than many drugs especially in the States, although I know many who swear the Boiron flu "meds" really work and I don't think placebo performs well with viral and bacterial infections.