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Originally Posted by ratbastid
There's a huge difference between herbal remedies, many of which contain actual active ingredients that actually have physical effects, and homeopathic remedies, which are nicely packed and marketed sugar pills or vials of water. Homeopathy is entirely different from herbal medicine.
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OK, thank you for the clarification and if a mod can edit the original title to reflect that that is fine, but the same point stands.
Most of the herbs - with a few exceptions - have not been subject to large scale studies, certainly not comparable to mainstream medicines and vaccines, so their record of both efficacy and safety is not well understood by those who consume them, perhaps not even by their manufacturers/sellers.
Is ingesting such products - while at the same time castigating mainstream vaccines and pharamaceuticals - not a little bit odd? How can this be reconciled?