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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I'm not a medical doctor. I'm what one might call a doctor of Beatleology.
So I can't say that my opinion is worth any more than any other non medical doc. But it seems to me that just from alogical standpoint that Oriental medicine is based on practices that are thousands of years old. Even if some of those practices were valid, huge advances been made in medicine even in the past few hundred years.
Oriental medicine seems to me, to be about the same as using a horse and buggy to get around.
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Basically true. Most of our modern pharmacology has a basis in botanicals, but pharmaceutical companies have generally isolated the active compounds and synthesized them in a pure drug. Don't underestimate the profit motive for big pharma. I have a lot of respect for the early Chinese, Greeks, and Egyptians that found these herbs and recognized their value. I wonder how many ancient Greeks died as they found out the appropriate dosage of digitalis leaf. This is an ongoing process; We didn't have penicillin until 1928 when a mold accidentally dropped in on Dr. Alexander Fleming's lab. But what some people are advocating is eating the mold instead of taking the penicillin tab because it is "natural" or "holistic" ---yuk. I also have a lot of respect for the guy who invented the wheel, but that doesn't mean I want him fixing my SUV
