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by raquo 2609 days ago
Honestly that reads like essential oils for "progressive millennials". Of course you should vape everything if you ask a vape salesman.

"Nobody knows anything" is the best case you can hope for. Do you want to be the guinea pig and find out what the long term effects are in 20 years? Go ahead. Vaping is not an established field of medicine, it was only popularized fairly recently, and that was mostly for smoking tobacco and marijuana, not camomile or garlic or whatever.

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I'm not defending their claims. I'm just asking, and I really do think that could be useful to have some study on that. Studies on vaporized marijuana says that are some benefits of that form of application: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456813/ While not having any research paper to deny nor support thesis about health benefits of vaporizing other herbs it's hard to have strong opinion on that. It's probably safer to avoid it - as you said - not being guinea pig, until there's some paper published.