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Biotech / Medical : Share your aches,pains,experiences,joys and cures. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (514)	4/15/2007 6:54:43 PM
From: Shoot1st	Respond to of 1564

Obviously you can share endlessly..... and I probably won't. different style.,,,,or different motives? I think my way...... you think your way. I simply don't want any person reading this being swayed by reading of bad experiences that might stop them pushing themselves to find what may really be of help and keep them alive and feeling better than they ever thought possible. In the future I'll only post when asked directly for direction. Shootie

To: Cogito who wrote (514)	4/16/2007 2:41:51 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

Well stated, Allen. And exactly right. A great many medicines- -the majority, if I remrember correctly- -derive from natural plant products. They were often discovered because "ignorant" peasants were using them in folk medicine. Some scientist or doctor noticed this, took a closer look, and VOILA! there was something there! Aspirin, quinine, tamoxifen, vinblastine, digitalis, colchicine, penicillin, streptomycin, the list goes on and on. The advantage to isolating the active compound and purifying it is that dosage can be more carefully controlled and noxious compounds found in the original plant product eliminated. This, obviously, can sometimes be quite important. Not paying attention to methods and sources not currently part of standard Western medical practice would be a grave mistake. Equally grave would be accepting without question or examination those sources and methods.