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[Pale Violet Light]

3) A huge problem with natural remedies is dosage, which isn't easy to control if you just grow and dry an herb, or make a tincture, or the like.

Modern analytical technology is pretty fantastic: it’s easy enough to quantify these things if you know the active ingredients. And controlled cultivation conditions can give pretty reproducible results. But this doesn’t really help the home-grower or amateur herbalist.

 

[dragoner]

 

[overgeeked]

I’m extremely skeptical of any non-herbal alternative medicine: homeopathy, chiropractic, reiki, etc.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proven to work?

Medicine.

 

[Umbran]

Modern analytical technology is pretty fantastic: it’s easy enough to quantify these things if you know the active ingredients. And controlled cultivation conditions can give pretty reproducible results.

With respect, quality control is generally better enforced in processing, rather than in growth.

But this doesn’t really help the home-grower or amateur herbalist.

The amateur herbalist is kinda like the person who represents themselves in court. These are medicines we are talking about - herbal origin doesn't make them safe to futz around with.

 

[gnarlygninja]

I remember an Israeli pharmaceutical researcher was doing some really important work on potential uses for the chemicals in marijuana back in the 1990s. When he was asked about the American medical marijuana movement, he laughed his ass right off.

(Seriously, the “thump” was audible, even over his laughter.)

His point was very much along those lines. The dosage of THC (and everything else) was impossible to control when sold in leafy form, whit countless varietals on the market. He dismissed the activists’ efforts as people who just wanted to get stoned.

And this was a man who had great expectations for using marijuana-derived products in legitimate medical practice around the world.

Side note: the dosage issue has cropped up again in the domain of medical or supplemental gummy products. Research has shown dosages can vary greatly from gummy to gummy, as a result of how they’re made. No such problems exist with pills, capsules or gelcaps.

My own independent research with gummies confirms this. It made watching 2001 for the first time...an experience.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

With respect, quality control is generally better enforced in processing, rather than in growth

If the growth conditions aren’t reproducible and your metabolite ratios are off, then no amount of reproducible processing is going to fix things. Though they are both important, of course!

The amateur herbalist is kinda like the person who represents themselves in court. These are medicines we are talking about - herbal origin doesn't make them safe to futz around with.

No argument there.

 

[MoonSong]

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To you it makes him a villain. To some it makes it more of a hero. n.n

 

[MoonSong]

LEGO Officially Reveals First Ever Star Trek Set: The U.S.S. Enterprise-D

The first ever LEGO Star Trek set is here, and it's a mind-blowing 3,600-piece U.S.S. Enterprise-D. With glow-in-the-dark nacelles, a detachable saucer, and 9 minifigs including Picard, Data, and Worf, this is a must-build for any sci-fi fan. But the real shocker? It comes with Riker's trombone...

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It reminds me of the massive playmobil Enterprise of about half a decade ago.

 

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Boy, remember when Sharon was going to be a big villain in the post-Endgame era? They were really throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall for a few years there.