[jelliclesfarm]

I grow medicinal herbs. I have found that with Ayurveda there are herbal washes that help with restoring vaginal pH towards slight acidity.

I don’t grow them as I am not in the right zone, but I have read that there are many herbs that does this function. Plus..Ayurveda takes a whole systems approach and includes dietary changes and lifestyle tips. Most of it was targeted towards menopausal and perimenopausal women who go through the changes and will affect whole body pH. The kind of herbs depends on the individual’s constitution.

I am pretty sure TCM has similar protocols for women’s health but the names were not familiar to me and I didn’t feel confident enough to enquire in a language that I wasn’t fluent in..

[adrianN]

Unfortunately Ayurveda and TCM has little to scientific backing, at least as far as I know.

[jelliclesfarm]

Define ‘scientific backing’. Please.

[adrianN]

The type of research that goes into normal medical treatments before they become approved treatments. Studies that show safety and efficacy.

[jelliclesfarm]

Do you know where in the timeline of human history did ‘science’ appear?

Is boric acid protocol for BV transplanted vaginal microbiome be considered ‘science’?

(Nice. The downvoting begins. And I haven’t even started. What’s the point? You guys please continue to enjoy talking amongst yourselves about scientific ways to deal with vaginal pH.)

[adrianN]

Around the time of the enlightenment I'd say.

Please note that I'm not saying that Ayurveda or TMC doesn't contain things that work. I'm just saying that a lot of those things haven't seen any proper testing done, so we don't know whether they work better than a placebo, or even whether they are safe, and of the things we did test, few worked particularly well.

Boric acid for example has been studied and found to work okay: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21774671

[Gabriel_Martin]

I'm assuming they're using backing and validation interchangeably.