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Originally Posted by JA
On the general issue of alternate/natural therapies and medicines it's well to remember there are many pharmaceuticals that have been and are derived from nature. It is for just these sort of reasons you will see pharmaceutical companies bio-prospecting in all sorts of natural environments: the Amazon comes to mind.
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The difference is, those that are approved medicines have to have undergone clinical trials to prove with statistical significance that they do what they say they do, and thus have the 'R' registration number on the pack.
Natural 'therapies' can get away with saying anything they want, as there is nobody policing their BS.
I'm not saying that 'nature' doesn't have a lot of secrets, but scooping up mud or randomly throwing some fancy ingredients does not a medicine make.