In article , Frogleg
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:14:56 -0700,
(paghat) wrote:

In article , (CorK)
wrote:

If you want to read about all aspects of the tree Ginkgo biloba then
visit my non commercial awarded homepage.
In English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch.


The Ginkgo Pages:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/

You shouldn't be so reticent about giving factual information about
Gingko's dangers & limited worth as a medicine. Since you give many links
to commercial websites that provide exaggerated claims & encourage faux
uses of gingko, you should want to be more responsible, or your favorite
tree will continue to put lives at risk because people are so fabulously
naive.

snip rant

Sheesh! Does every site with a picture of a Foxglove include a
bibliography on digitalis? The site has nothing to do with promoting
or selling any kind of herbal remedy.

The site explicitely said it had no opinion on the medical value, &
provided links to numerous sites that recommended it for various illnesses
it cannot assist. This is at best irresponsible.

And yes, if some site similarly said they didn't know whether or not you
could cure yourself of heart disease by eating foxgloves, but provided a
link to a page that says eat as much foxglove as you want it'll help you
lots, I'd respond to that too. Any decent soul that knew better would.

You may think it only a "rant" to give an straightforward accounting of
the limited health value of gingko, what it might be marginally good for &
what it is not good for one whit, but mine was a merely factual response
to quackery that is much more easily found all over the net than are the
facts. And you may not care about the lives injured & destroyed by herbal
quackery, but I do. You may have every tolerance & acceptance for mistruth
& dangeorus gullibility, & applaud links to websites that injure health,
but I do not.

The person posts a little note
about once a year for anyone who might be interested in Ginkos, and I
found it interesting, 'though difficult to read. Why are you giving
him such a hard time?

It's an okay website quite curious because single-genus oriented. Nothing
I said suggested less; there's certainly room for improvement, & my
suggestions would be a start.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com