Are there herbs that do work as marketed?

[ChinaBandit]

I think that there are.

Ginkgo Biloba has lowered my blood lipids. I've done the before, after, stopping and starting tests. Everytime I go back to it my blood fat is reduced. There is no other reason, but the Ginkgo...It works quickly too. There is significant change within 30 days.

 

[kbate]

Garlic.

Everything else is quackery.

Garlic is the miracle drug, except that you'll stink to high heaven if you use doses high enough to be medicinal.

 

[lovetoread]

Garlic.

Everything else is quackery.

Garlic is the miracle drug, except that you'll stink to high heaven if you use doses high enough to be medicinal.

I bet it also helps to keep the vampires away.

 

[kbate]

I bet it also helps to keep the vampires away.

You mean if I order a Caesar Salad, I can keep Candice from talking about 'Twilight' at dinner on Friday? cool.

 

[mercury14]

I think that there are.

Ginkgo Biloba has lowered my blood lipids. I've done the before, after, stopping and starting tests. Everytime I go back to it my blood fat is reduced. There is no other reason, but the Ginkgo...It works quickly too. There is significant change within 30 days.

Every time Gingko research is run through a meta it's shown to do nothing at all. Except some vascular stuff but there are better drugs for that.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

You mean you aren't asking about the kind you smoke?

 

[JohnnySavage]

You simply can't make a proper red gravy without basil.

 

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[JoeRockStar]

Red yeast rice dropped my cholesterol 70 points in 1 month.

 

[warrior queen]

High-dose turmeric for pain and inflamation.
Only herb ever that has worked for me.

 

[Peregrinator]

Yes, of course there are. Most modern medicine is derived from plants.

Opium, for example, is an excellent painkiller. So is the salicylic acid in willow bark. Slippery elm is a pretty good expectorant. Jewelweed does a nice job getting the urushiol off your skin after contact with poison ivy.

There are volumes of such examples. Read any of the great ethnobotany writers. My personal favorite is Wade Davis.

 

[Sean]

Red yeast rice dropped my cholesterol 70 points in 1 month.

No, replacing the chips with rice is what did that.

 

[neci]

eat fresh salsa with lots of garlic. i need to make some kind of pico tonight. there are lots and lots of books, research articles, poems and stories of herbs. old and new. how many undiscovered cures have disappeared with the massacre on the rain forests?

 

[SkAoUt]

Yes, of course there are. Most modern medicine is derived from plants.

Opium, for example, is an excellent painkiller. So is the salicylic acid in willow bark. Slippery elm is a pretty good expectorant. Jewelweed does a nice job getting the urushiol off your skin after contact with poison ivy.

There are volumes of such examples. Read any of the great ethnobotany writers. My personal favorite is Wade Davis.

Mine is Nancy Turner. Though beating ones joints affected by rheumatism with devils club might be a cure many would find worse than the symptoms.

 

[GorgeousGeekGirl]

For allergies Fragrant Jade is amazing. It does take about a week to build up. No side effects, and if it's really bad you can also take an OTC like benadryl without risk of interaction

 

[ivantheterrible]

black cohosh mixed with blue cohosh in a tea, and drank by a woman in the early stages of pregnancy, 2-4 weeks, will abort in 48 hours.

 

[Busybody]

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10 billion probiotics, chews and drink mix, awesome

 

[CHNOPS]

For allergies Fragrant Jade is amazing. It does take about a week to build up. No side effects, and if it's really bad you can also take an OTC like benadryl without risk of interaction

There's a reason there are no side effects and no risks of interaction...

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'm allergic to Fragrant Jade

 

[Sean]

There's a reason there are no side effects and no risks of interaction...

It only works properly if you dilute it 10,000,000,000 times.

 

[CHNOPS]

I'm allergic to Fragrant Jade

Fragrant Jade would help with that!

Also it has the benefit of being the herb that sounds most like a disparaging name for a hooker.

 

[RjThoughts]

You simply can't make a proper red gravy without basil.

Red gravy? Oh you mean tomato sauce.
You cannot make a gravy from fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices.
Gravy is thickened fat and meat drippings, all others are SAUCES.

THis, "Well my Italian Grandmother called it," or "The Italians down the street," is bull!

Tomato is a fruit.
What goes on your pasta is a fruit sauce!

 

[JohnnySavage]

Red gravy? Oh you mean tomato sauce.
You cannot make a gravy from fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices.
Gravy is thickened fat and meat drippings, all others are SAUCES.

THis, "Well my Italian Grandmother called it," or "The Italians down the street," is bull!

Tomato is a fruit.
What goes on your pasta is a fruit sauce!

Red gravy is a tomato based sauce, cooked with meat.

Meat = gravy
No meat = sauce.

 

[RjThoughts]

Red gravy is a tomato based sauce, cooked with meat.

Meat = gravy
No meat = sauce.

Meat drippings = gravy
Meat IN sauce is still sauce, just sauce WITH meat

 

[MatthewVett]

My placebo works pretty well. My doctor says it'll cure everything. I take one a day, and I feel great!