Alternative Medicine (Hint: This is NOT really medicine)

[thesummerqueen]

But most of what passes for alternative medicine is just snake oil. Garbage being sold to people without a firm understanding of chemistry or biology or germ theory. A lot of it can be really dangerous, too. Take aspirin, for example; it comes from tree bark, right? So, why not just take the bark directly instead of the processed pills? Mostly because you'd have to eat a tremendous amoun of the bark to get the same amount of aspirin you could get out of one little pill and the bark, under those circumstances, is probably going to be filled with other less beneficial ingredients.

Most of them won't eat the bark - they'll make an infusion or a tea out of it. What they don't' understand is that the only way to get a consistent amount of the active chemical is to extract it or reproduce it in laboratory conditions.

Hort is funny like that.