Posted on 05/03/2009 4:37:47 PM PDT by Scythian
Actually, I didn’t mean to infer that aspirin is the best medicine for any illness, just that overall it’s still the best (and safest)for various problems on a general basis. I’ve been a Bufferin taken for decades with no side effects at all. The coating helps protect the stomach. It’s the ONLY brand I’ll take.
Didn’t I just read last week that Tamiflu is useless against H1N1 (Mexi-Swine Flu) Virus?
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You can put in hot tea.
My wife drinks a tea of cinnamon (the actual bark boiled in water) and thyme. She says now that she is going to add the star anise to that.
We are in Shanghai where you see this stuff at every turn.
But it still can’t hurt to try teas with star anise. Chinese herbal medicine has some old-wives-tale stuff, but there is also a whole lot of genuine healing properties in the herbs, too.
There are now actual universities of oriental medicines that do modern scientific laboratory research to separate the real stuff from the old-wives-tales, and there is a lot of good research coming out.
Gagging it down? It’s a tablet, no taste, just swallow it? it’s just a pill?
All the NAC I’ve ever seen in practice ( we use it for Tylenol overdose) is liquid and has a horrendous rotten egg smell. Most people promptly throw it back up. If it comes in tablet form thats news to me.
Most hospitals only stock the liquid form which is usually used in a nebulizer for respiratory treatments. We then use that stuff for the tylenol OD’s. Of course the dose is pretty high at 140 mg/kg as a loading dose and half that every 4 hours after. For an adult that can be 10 to 20 grams of the stuff...
Recently read about another use for it too.....Seems it has some restorative properties for hearing loss secondary from very loud noise type "hearing loss" .
FWIW
OK - now you tell me - I just put in an order at iherb! :) Will check out swansons.
LOL...I told you at 8:39 AM.
Thanks, I get some asap. ~Pandora~
I doubt this will ever go away. First it was the mercury in the vaccines. After that was removed and the autism rate stayed the same (maybe even went up a bit?) then it was the vaccines themselves. Next it will be the needles used to inject the vaccines. People = Idiots
Yes, it can hurt. First of all, you never know what is in an herbal medicine. There could be too much of the active ingredient, not enough, or none at all. Also, it is very common to have a dietary supplement to actually work, only to be discovered that it was spiked with the actual drug. This has happened with Viagra and supposedly steroid-free psoriasis meds. And plenty of other cases. I follow this rather closely, and virtually every time a supplement is actually studied in a well designed trial it is found to be useless (or harmful—Google news hydroxycut). Add to this the fact that something coming from a plant is no more likely to be safe than something coming from a lab. In fact, the most poisonous substances on earth come from natural sources. Think about it- the plant have evolved not to be eaten in most cases. Thus the alkaloid toxins.
First of all, that' not really true. Herbs are mostly used for sub-clinical pathologies so it is not necessary for the dose to be measured to such a precise degree. If it's the right plant it will most likely have enough of the right phytochemical to have the intended effect. By the very nature of the way plant medicines are used a little more or a little less makes little difference.
It is unlikely that any plant, reasonably collected and processed, will have no active ingredient. In addition to that, dose critical herbs can be found with tested quantities of active ingredient. That only matter for about a half dozen popular herbs. Pharmaceutical drugs are dosed at or near the toxic dose level, generally speaking, because that is how they work. Herbs are only rarely used at the toxic dose level and you won't find those in a store.
Secondly, herbs processed into formulas, like Chinese Patent Formulas, are concentrated and subject to rigorous processing techniques.
As far as contamination, there are a a few rare examples of poor production techniques and facilities. Pharmaceuticals kill and injure tens of thousands of people every year. Very few people are seriously harmed by herbs.
Think about it- the plant have evolved not to be eaten in most cases. Thus the alkaloid toxins.
That is exactly what makes the majority of plant medicines useful. A specific physiological reaction to a plant toxin produces an effect that is beneficial to the ailing patient whereas it would be an irritant or nuisance effect for a healthy person. Such as a diuretic or expectorant. But there are a good number of phytochemicals that produce more complex effects and are not alkaloids.
Using allopathic criterions to judge the use and effectiveness of whole plant medicines works about as well as doing the reverse. It doesn't work well.
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