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Originally Posted by sworkhard
That's not really true. Nobody ever tests what the Naturopaths/Homeopaths/Chinese Medicine practitioners prescribe in double blind laboratory tests because the cost of testing is too high and you can't patent it if it works. Basically, there is no money in these remedies, so it doesn't get tested, so traditional medicine doesn't every incorporate it because it isn't proven.
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False. Drug companies test herbal medicines to find out the active ingredients, then synthesize them, then patent them, then sell them. For example 5 seconds on google found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel, which was discovered by analyzing the anti-cancer effects of Pacific yew tree bark.
www.google.com. Try it out.