Herbs are definitely something else entirely. Abused by scammers, true, but there is plenty medicine made from plants.
Am very sorry but need to draw the Ley line somewhere.
We should probably make it illegal to market herbal beverages as managing symptoms. If a bit of chamomile goes down gently that’s fine, but a little asterix on the front of every “throat soothing” tea is a pretty flimsy defense for unsubstantiated medical claims.
I used to run into this a lot. In some non-American cultures, Indian specifically, Homeopathic refers to what Americans would call Herbal. I had an old girlfriend who didn’t understand why I was so against her families traditional herbal remedies. I finally asked her what she thought homeopathic was. After showing her all the stuff online, she agreed that it sounded crazy and started using the word herbal.
Not to say that’s universal, but just something I experienced
Out of curiosity, where’s the line? Are you going to jail people for drinking herbal tea for their head cold?
Herbs are definitely something else entirely. Abused by scammers, true, but there is plenty medicine made from plants.
Am very sorry but need to draw the Ley line somewhere.
Absolutely a line needs to be drawn, I’m just wondering where people would draw it.
(I put in a little joke: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ley_line)
We should probably make it illegal to market herbal beverages as managing symptoms. If a bit of chamomile goes down gently that’s fine, but a little asterix on the front of every “throat soothing” tea is a pretty flimsy defense for unsubstantiated medical claims.
Herbal tea for a head cold isn’t homeopathy in the way its being referred to here.
I used to run into this a lot. In some non-American cultures, Indian specifically, Homeopathic refers to what Americans would call Herbal. I had an old girlfriend who didn’t understand why I was so against her families traditional herbal remedies. I finally asked her what she thought homeopathic was. After showing her all the stuff online, she agreed that it sounded crazy and started using the word herbal.
Not to say that’s universal, but just something I experienced
Herbology is not homeopathy.