Cross Big Ears at your peril.

**vetran** · 21 January 2015, 10:10

I do wonder where the medical profession gets off dismissing millennia of Chinese (or other cultures) medicine out of hand and reaching for drugs (normally stolen from earlier cultures and copyrighted) instead.

**GlenW** · 21 January 2015, 10:12

Originally posted by vetran View Post

I do wonder where the medical profession gets off dismissing millennia of Chinese (or other cultures) medicine out of hand and reaching for drugs (normally stolen from earlier cultures and copyrighted) instead.

I believe the technical term for it is progress. "Now sir would you like a couple of paracetamol for that or some ground up tiger testicle?"

**Scruff** · 21 January 2015, 10:17

"I, Your Highness speak, from a lifetime of academic study and achievement, whilst you speak as a mere accident of birth"...

**d000hg** · 21 January 2015, 10:20

Originally posted by GlenW View Post

I believe the technical term for it is progress. "Now sir would you like a couple of paracetamol for that or some ground up tiger testicle?"

Lots of 'real' medicine basically is just ground up something. Plant, mould, animal product.

**tomtomagain** · 21 January 2015, 10:25

Originally posted by vetran View Post

I do wonder where the medical profession gets off dismissing millennia of Chinese (or other cultures) medicine out of hand and reaching for drugs (normally stolen from earlier cultures and copyrighted) instead.

By using an evidence-based scientific approach as opposed to superstition.

**tomtomagain** · 21 January 2015, 10:27

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

Lots of 'real' medicine basically is just ground up something. Plant, mould, animal product.

Absolutely. But at least they test it, rather than relying on the local witch-doctor.

My sister unwisely took some Chinese medicine from a Chinese medical shop. It nearly killed her.

**d000hg** · 21 January 2015, 10:41

But lots of folk/ancient medicines DO work when investigated - of course lots don't as well.

**FatLazyContractor** · 21 January 2015, 10:42

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eko-Snake-Oi...ZDKKS4ENFQ9GAJ

**vetran** · 21 January 2015, 10:46

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

But lots of folk/ancient medicines DO work when investigated - of course lots don't as well.

thanks that was the point I was trying to make.

Historical review of medicinal plants

Cross Big Ears at your peril.