was having a chat in the surgery the other day about Herbal tablets...yet the ones i am currently taking are not in the book..so i was told "they havent been tested yet' ? you know the book... docs have a 'bible' 'book' of medicines which theyf lick through if they are unsure about a particular tablet.. nope it wasnt in their bible..so how can the tinternet say a 'remedy is good for you' if it aint been tested yet ?
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how do they know if its good for you...?
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iss 'erbal innit ?
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They don't.
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To paraphrase Jimmy Carr... herbal medicines that work are just called 'medicines'.
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sounds like the ones you are taking are OK, afterall you're still here
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Have a look at Ben Goldacre's Blog.
I think that the answer is that Pharmaceutical companies are fixing the results of (some) testes and Alternative Practitioners are misleading and relay on spurious results.
Now where did I put my tin foil hat.
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elaine anne said......so how can the tinternet say a 'remedy is good for you' if it aint been tested yet ?
t'internet can (and does) say a million things, very little of which is true.
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sounds like the ones you are taking are OK, afterall you're still here
Perhaps like these ones ?
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"To paraphrase Jimmy Carr... herbal medicines that work are just called 'medicines'."
Dara O'Briain.
“Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became "medicine". And the rest of it’s just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.”
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And the rest of it’s just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.”
or poisonous
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Everything's poisonous in large enough doses. Even water.
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to answer the original question .so how can the tinternet say a 'remedy is good for you' if it aint been tested yet ?
As above, it's the internet. It's not policed or controlled in anyway, it's full of shite. Take everything in it with a huge pinch of salt, including what i'm writing now.
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‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’
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they - the herbal medical supplier/industry - don't know (generally) that the herbal treatments are good for you, they just "think" that they are. There are of course some great herbal treatments - willow bark aka aspirin - but the majority are unknowns. To prove that herbal treatments are good for you the accepted manner is double blinded (you don't know whether you are giving patients treatment or no treatment and respectively the patients don't know either) randomized clincial trials. This is evidence based medicine.
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i only have a limited experience of herbal medicines. well, when i say medicines.......
certainly seemed to help at the time, though. forget what the problem was though.
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