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Provost Harrison
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The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:36
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Originally posted by Verres
My doctor did mention something about it, only that it may increase side effects apparently. Which I can't say I've noticed.
As for whether it's actually any good or not....I usually ignore so-called 'studies' into herbal rememdies as most seem to be a lot of crap. I find it helps me, personally (particularly re anxiety, which my anti-d's dont seem to be dealing with at all) so therefore I take it.
(turns out i was wrong with what I said before - having actually bothered to read the leaflet for the first time in my life, it turns out it is an ssri  Oh well) |
I've had this argument before. Now you're probably going to think I'm a pharmaceutical hack, but any effect that comes from herbal remedies is more of a coincidence than a design, I mean, where is the evolutionary advantage of a plant being able to cure a headache or depression? It's just that there are some molecules that have a very crude ability to do this. Science has taken these molecules, studied and refined them. Take aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), originally extracted as salicylic acid - had the same anti-inflammatory effect, however it was virtually inedible because it was incredibly bitter and harmful to the digestive system (more so than aspirin). So with some investigation, it was found that the acetyl derivitive was far safer. In a nutshell plants have given a good idea for a drug, a very crude form, but apart from that they just aren't worth the hassle. And don't think they are all nice and safe either, some of them can have some nasty effects, just that the doses you are dealing with a so low that this does not occur (and thus the therapeutic effect is more placebo than anything else).
Use proper drugs dammit 
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13-03-2005 16:21
. Used to be on codeine for headaches so I guess I shouldn't complain.
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