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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Questions about Reynaud's Syndrome
- Message-ID: <17873@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:48:16 GMT
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- In article <dcox-101292102806@dcoxmac.nswc.navy.mil> dcox@relay.nswc.navy.mil (David Cox) writes:
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- >Adding fresh grated ginger to my food (easy, and tasty) is a definite
- >help to avoiding the problem in the first place. A doctor friend told me
- >once, offhand, that there was no treatment, and some herbalist later
- >told me about ginger. Here is, for me, a key example of very useful
- >information that I think a doctor should provide people who suffer from
- >this condition. Do you doctors out there doubt the efficacy of ginger as
- >a preventative treatment for mild cases of this condition? Do any of you
- >tell your patients about it? This would be an example in an essay I would
- >like to write some day about what is lacking in conventional
- >medicine, while still allowing creedence and importance to the prevalence
- >of quacks in the alternative field. In the postings I have read in this
- >group,
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- Before prescribing Ginger, scientific medicine would have to see
- some experiments showing that it works. It is not enough for you
- to say "hey, it seems to help me, so all doctors from now on should
- be telling their patients to take ginger." That doesn't sound very
- reasonable, now does it?
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
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