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Apr. 21st, 2005 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afufleThis is a my-goat-getter:
A few weeks ago, I saw a news item that said a) echinacea does not cure colds, and b) cranberry juice will not cure a bladder infection.
Well, I wonder who researched that, a hairsprayed idiot? The common cold is not curable, there is no cure for the common cold!. Echinacea is for bacterial infections, and it works the same as any antibiotic--you take it for a period of time and it gradually cuts down the number of or eliminates the bacteria entirely. I used it when I was scheduled for a root canal when the dentist wouldn't prescribe an antibiotic and the tooth just felt worse and worse. It works.
And I doubt anyone credible ever claimed it would cure colds or other viruses.
Cranberry juice is supposed to be used to prevent bladder infections. Dr. Andrew Weil, a proponent of herbal medecines who also believes in the usual scientific methods, has written about both of these herbs, and he's not making it up. There's a lot of research behind his My grandmother had a chronic bladder infection until she began to drink cranberry juice regularly. It works.
Again, I doubt anyone with any actual medical clout ever claimed the juice would cure the infections, rather than prevent them.
It makes me sick, because there are many medical problems that are curable or controllable by inexpensive herbal treatments, or even changes in diet. Germany is one of the countries that researches herbal treatment the same as US companies research theirs. But the herbs are often cheaper, and even work better than some drugs, and in some cases may have less side effects. Also, many manmade drugs are quite new, and often they have side effects not predicted by the companies that make them. Serious side effects have recently taken some major drugs off the market.
It wasn't pointed out in the article that there were correct uses of the two herbs mentioned. So this tends to turn people off to herbal medecines, or so I would think. That's so stupid. Hairspray journalism.
A few weeks ago, I saw a news item that said a) echinacea does not cure colds, and b) cranberry juice will not cure a bladder infection.
Well, I wonder who researched that, a hairsprayed idiot? The common cold is not curable, there is no cure for the common cold!. Echinacea is for bacterial infections, and it works the same as any antibiotic--you take it for a period of time and it gradually cuts down the number of or eliminates the bacteria entirely. I used it when I was scheduled for a root canal when the dentist wouldn't prescribe an antibiotic and the tooth just felt worse and worse. It works.
And I doubt anyone credible ever claimed it would cure colds or other viruses.
Cranberry juice is supposed to be used to prevent bladder infections. Dr. Andrew Weil, a proponent of herbal medecines who also believes in the usual scientific methods, has written about both of these herbs, and he's not making it up. There's a lot of research behind his My grandmother had a chronic bladder infection until she began to drink cranberry juice regularly. It works.
Again, I doubt anyone with any actual medical clout ever claimed the juice would cure the infections, rather than prevent them.
It makes me sick, because there are many medical problems that are curable or controllable by inexpensive herbal treatments, or even changes in diet. Germany is one of the countries that researches herbal treatment the same as US companies research theirs. But the herbs are often cheaper, and even work better than some drugs, and in some cases may have less side effects. Also, many manmade drugs are quite new, and often they have side effects not predicted by the companies that make them. Serious side effects have recently taken some major drugs off the market.
It wasn't pointed out in the article that there were correct uses of the two herbs mentioned. So this tends to turn people off to herbal medecines, or so I would think. That's so stupid. Hairspray journalism.
