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Re: kelp.From: Douglas Krell (sfth@roadrunner.com)Tue Aug 20 08:20:58 1996
For those on the list who like the idea of herbal remedies for this or that, you should understand that: Whereas over 60% of our pharmacopeia is plant derived, kelp or other herbal medicines are not necessarily bad things, it's just that they haven't been studied in any rigorous way...not are they likely to be. The story of how digitalis was developed from foxglove is absolutely facinating in my opinion. So if you have a series of 50 or more patients with a documented condition who have proven benefit from a specific therapy, then we'd like to hear about it. Otherwise there are hundreds upon hundreds of books that extol the virtues of all kinds of remedies without one shred of evidence except that Dr. So and So said so. One interesting exception is to be found in the ethnobotanical literature where anthropologists that study the healing practices of indigenous cultures can look at the use of certain herbal rememdies over thousands of years. Pharmaceutical companies are currently mining the knowledge of witchdoctors all over the world to look for such remedies that have stood the test of time so that these remedies may be studied in a methodical way that could reveal previously unknown compounds or substances.
-- Douglas Krell MD FACOG Santa Fe, N.M.
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