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by vincie 4630 days ago
And of course it cures cancer, diabetes, bad-breath and increases your virility and success with the ladies. They haven't tried it yet, but it should also increase your mileage if you put them in your gas tank.
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You say that but man eastern medicine is powerful stuff!!
I'd be more scared of the undocumented side effects than of losing my hair.
Well I'm not sure what you should be scared of really. The FDA-approved medicines where some so-called reputable companies have lied to the authorities about the fruits of their research (and hidden the potential side effects), of the chinese medicine stuff.

There's not so much you can trust anymore out there when it comes to drugs.

It is sad to see that people have such a bad attitude towards the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Many of my friends work in that sector, and I assure you that their motivation and interest in the their work comes in part from helping people.

Give me one industial sector where greed - nature of man - is not a problem.

I happen to know that sector very well (among others) and it has always struck me how dirty it has always been. Paying doctors to go to the tropical islands for so called "scientific conferences", giving kickbacks vs the number of subscriptions for your drug, manipulating the studies results to make them look better than they actually are, cherry picking the results to get an approval... just list any of the worst practices ever and you can be sure the pharma industry has it. And you get random news here and there on how X big company did this or that (recently Pfizer caught red handed in Japan) but still business continues as usual.

The motivation of your friends may be noble, but that's probably because they don't work in the functions which directly relate to these activities. Just open your eyes (and the news).

> [..] tropical islands [..] manipulating the studies results [..]

I did not want to argue with you that there is no dirty business in pharmaceuticals or chemistry. All I am saying is that dirty tricks and evil strategies are found throughout the industry, and not only in the medical sector. It is just in the medical sector that one sees the most dramatic consequences.

Go to car development, pre-emptive war, OS software, taxi drivers, banks, and I am sure you will find some good examples of low humans can fall.

One may have heard the medicinal properties of cow urine: http://www.gomataseva.org/pure-cow-products/gomutra-cowurine

The advantages of Gomutra are: It works as antibacterial agent Boosts the immunity of the body Useful for heart patients and obesity Lowers cholesterol levels Reduces fats Improves brain power Repairs and regenerates damaged tissues and cells Cures children’s cough and other diseases Increases life span and purifies the blood.

I'm not endorsing this. Just pointing out that Eastern medicine have promoted many questionable items like this and others.

More recently a well known spiritual organization started selling sakthi drop - a cure for all medicine too. http://artoflivingupdates.artoflivinguniverse.org/2011/11/ne....

And there is no limit of mantras and yanthras on the market for the believers.