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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Questions about Reynaud's Syndrome
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.222555.10581@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:25:55 GMT
- References: <dcox-101292102806@dcoxmac.nswc.navy.mil> <17873@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec23.102647.12172@vms.eurokom.ie>
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- In article <1992Dec23.102647.12172@vms.eurokom.ie> mdebuitlear@vms.eurokom.ie writes:
- >In article <17873@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >>
- >> 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?
- >
- >If it obviously doesn't do any harm, it doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
- >
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- Why is it so obvious that it doesn't do any harm?
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- You are hypothesizing that ginger, instead of being just a spice, has some
- particular beneficial effect on the body, that scientific medicine hasn't
- measured yet. Why are you assuming that it has no harmful effect on the body,
- that neither scientific medicine nor anyone else has measured yet.
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- This question is never far from my mind when an advocate of "traditional" or
- herbal medicine types.
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-
- -dk
-