[quote]etaco wrote:
What herbs? Doctors don’t prescribe herbal shit because there’s no significant evidence to back it up.[/quote]
Tell that to the chinese who have been using herbs for thousonds of years. Herbs are still very popular in China because they WORK.
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Nearly all of it is useless but people still spend a fortune on it because schlong root “may assist penis hardness.” There was a singal study, if that, that showed a statistically significant increase in penis rigidity, therefore it’s “herbal viagra”.[/quote]
Blame it on marketing. But herbs are just as good as most over the counter drugs.
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You can feel free to go to that doctor while I’ll go to the one prescribing stuff that has at least been extensively studied in humans.[/quote]
You’re the one playnig russian roulette. I’d try a herbal remedy first and if that doesn’t work… you can always use the drug. Problem with most drugs (even thrugh extensive testing) is that they have really bad side effects.
Here is a sample:
Name: Dexatrim
Prescribed For: cold, cough
Side Effect: fatal strokes
Name: Paxil
Prescribed For: depression
Side Effect: suicide
Name: Avandia
Prescribed For: diabetes
Side Effect: heart failure, hepatitis, and liver failure
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/drug-lawsuits.htm
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While it’s regretable that effective mechanisms don’t exist for funding research into unpatentable natural substances, that doesn’t mean the use of unresearched substances should be the responsibility of doctors. The medical profession is based on hard science, however imperfect it may be at the time, not hope or faith.[/quote]
I like to get a second opinion. And while vestern doctors may not use herbs… eastern ones do. Waay far east.