[Bob Ireland]

***Greek and Roman societies maintained guilds of professional sorcerers who sold spells, charms, and love-potions; the term φαρμακεύς covered all of these***

🤔 You doubted me ❓ 😂

Magic and sorcery have their roots in the natural. Ironically, modern pharmaceuticals are often synthetic forms of natural substances; natural substances cannot be protected with a patent. The question then arises: is the synthetic copy as efficacious as the natural product it is based upon?

😎 Thanks for digging up and posting the supportive data about φαρμα pharma!

[numberonepal]

The question then arises: is the synthetic copy as efficacious as the natural product it is based upon?

Absolutely not. My proof is back in the days of high dose Niacin we used synthetic melatonin to mitigate the flush. Some of us started using concentrated tart cherry and it worked far better. I did the math once and it was about 100:1 synthetic melatonin to the melatonin in the cherry juice. Another huge example is Marinol compared to cannabis. Far less cannabis was needed to get the same results as Marinol.