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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Herbs for Menopause
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.075522.5298@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Dec31.013309.3018@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:55:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.013309.3018@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- >>I would like to learn about herbs which women can take for menopausal
- >>symptoms.
- >If you don't get an answer here, ask over in talk.health.alternative, a
- >new newsgroup split off from sci.med just for these sort of questions.
- >Most of the folks remaining here are advocates of scientific as opposed
- >to folk or alternative medicine.
-
- Yeah, I'm sure the crackpots there will be happy to recommend junk for
- her to take. It might be a bit more helpful for someone to point out
- to her that there aren't any "herbs which women can take for menopausal
- symptoms"; these things will either turn out to be worthless or toxic
- or both.
-
- You gave the wrong name for the other newsgroup, too.
-
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- Steve Dyer
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