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by adrianN 2462 days ago
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