The Pharmaceutical Industry

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Because the worst practices of the medical industry, the unfortunate examples that make up the bulk of these anti-pharmaceutical news articles, are the standard practice of the alternatives. Advertising and profit are corrupting forces on the industry. But that's all there is in the alternative industry - they are the pharmaceutical industry without the clinical trials.

The fact that some clinical trials are botched is not a good reason to skip them altogether.

Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine have been tested and proved for over 5000 years.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine have been tested and proved for over 5000 years.

Yes. And Chinese medicine offered for the relief of eczema can have a negative impact on kidneys. Also....define proved? The jury is still very much out on acupuncture...and really, I think the less said about ground up tiger penis and rhino horn the better.