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Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:
Ann wrote:
Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet expounded:
Don't have time or inclination to read all of your references but quote
from the one in Scientific American says what I think:
"Information on most dietary supplements is based far more on folklore
than on EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS."
EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS funded by a pharmaceutical company, one way or
the other.
Think is, the pharmaceutical companies don't see much profit in these
'folklore' remedies, so they never are properly tested, and they don't
see the light of widespread distribution. I'll put my trust in the
tried and true anytime, but I'm careful about who that trust goes to.
Stockholders and corporations aren't high on my list.
This is not the case. Numerous medicinals are derived from plants.
There is plenty of money to be made by the pharmaceutical companies in
isolating active ingredients and selling as purified, tested medicines
or using their chemistry as a jumping off point to make even better drugs.
Do you have special knowledge or is this a faith based assertion?
True, drug companies, medical and agricultural, are patenting anything
that looks promising (Indeed, even your genes can be patented and become
the property of others, without your knowledge. Isn't greed great? (
http://books.google.com/books?id=Lz3...PA391&dq=indiv
idual's+genes+patented+without+his+knowledge&sourc e=web&ots=kM-BNOEbx6&si
g=LkODeKY7p155s85ErF17Y5HRPWE )
Drug companies by and large are interested in diseases that affect a
large number of rich people. Tropical diseases, rare diseases, or
diseases of poverty, forget it. Businesses are here to make money,
whether their products help you or not.
But the subject at hand is traditional medicine and there are no
patents, personal property rights, or big bucks to be had in traditional
medicine. Just like allopathic medicine, it works in varying degrees on
different people.
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