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[Subduction Zone]

So you have nothing to argue with. Why are you here then?

You're wrong.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I'm sure I'm allowed to comment on simple remedies, just not on the covid stuff that has been labeled conspiracy theories.

Molasses is for iron deficiency. Not everyone can take iron pills because of stomach issues.
The echinicha is a boost for the immune system like many natural products. Elderberry syrup is supposed to be good also. Even stuff like fish oil is a natural remedy for joints.

There is a real distinction between food additives and medications that is recognised both in law and the medical.
profession.

I take cod liver oil with vitamin D. As do many older people who don't get enough sunshine. It probably helps. But more oily fresh fish in my diet and more sunshine and exercise would probably be better.
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[SkepticThinker]

Only you can't know the science of everything. Do you personally test each drug? Where are you getting some unbiased source for the science of each medicine used?

Sure you can. The science exists, or the drug in question wouldn't be available to me as an approved medication. The scientific method was designed to remove human bias from the equation.

What I do is discuss drugs with a person educated on the matter and on my personal health situation - my doctor.

 

[Wildswanderer]

Sure you can. The science exists, or the drug in question wouldn't be available to me as an approved medication. The scientific method was designed to remove human bias from the equation.

What I do is discuss drugs with a person educated on the matter and on my personal health situation - my doctor.

I would get a second opinion. Doctors these days often are educated only in one field of medicine. They don't have complete medical knowledge. It seems that by and large everyone is a specialist.

 

[SkepticThinker]

I would get a second opinion. Doctors these days often are educated only in one field of medicine. They don't have complete medical knowledge. It seems that by and large everyone is a specialist.

Great. That second opinion would also be based on science rather than on unproven herbal remedies.

 

[Wildswanderer]

Great. That second opinion would also be based on science rather than on unproven herbal remedies.

How would you know if they work if you never tried them?

 

[SkepticThinker]

How would you know if they work if you never tried them?

How does that address what I said, or the point of this entire conversation?

 

[Wildswanderer]

How does that address what I said, or the point of this entire conversation?

The point is that you keep claiming something doesn't work but you have no way of knowing that because you refuse to allow that possiblity.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

The point is that you keep claiming something doesn't work but you have no way of knowing that because you refuse to allow that possiblity.

It would be very difficult to find a folk or tribal remedy that had not been thoroughly investigated.
The medical science world is very interested in such things.

You can be certain that all the things that you are suggesting are amongst that number, and that any active ingredient is, either incorporated in to modern medical practice or has been rejected as ineffective or dangerous.

 

[SkepticThinker]

The point is that you keep claiming something doesn't work but you have no way of knowing that because you refuse to allow that possiblity.

Wow. Okay, you're claiming that "herbal remedies" are medicine, or just as good as medicine. And you're claiming this on the basis of a series of anecdotes. But "herbal remedies" haven't been demonstrated to do what they are claimed to do. Rigorous blind studies under controlled conditions are required to demonstrate that. And so they are unregulated. Which is the reason they aren't considered medicine and why doctors don't prescribe them. Some "herbal remedies" do actually do what they're claimed to do, and you know how we actually know that? Through scientific testing and not through asking random people what they think about it.

If you're just talking about eating food to obtain nutrients, I'm not sure why you'd refer to that as medicine.