http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5659 Sat, 23 May 2009 09:15:54 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5659 Actually, I think you are missing the whole herbs/herbal medicine thing. Herbal medicine relies on the strength of herbs to do its work, so your comment about “laughing out loud” at the remedies given on the page you linked to just shows that you don’t understand at all.
That’s not really a criticism of you, because 90% of the population probably think the same – that, for example, eating a few walnuts will give you a full dose of whatever the walnuts contain. The fact is, herbal medicine is very potent and potentially very dangerous too, if misused.
So my comment would be, maybe a little more research may be in order before any more laughing?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5658 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:51:31 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5658 Does tobacco count as a herb? Because that definitely works.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5657 Tue, 19 May 2009 23:17:57 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5657 Gingko biloba is also supposed to be a good memory booster. While I’d be the first person to support a medical solution to a medical issue (amnesia), I don’t immediately “laugh out loud” at herbal/holistic approaches.
Having said that, the fact that the people marketing such things want to call them “cures” rather than “treatments” bothers me alot. While I think there’s no harm in soomeone trying herbal supplements for a while to see if they work for them, I don’t think people should expect to be completely “cured”, and I don’t think the supplement industry should be able to market their products that way. To put it a different way, if you market something as a “cure”, and Patient X isn’t cured, in today’s overly litigious society it would be very easy for Patient X or his family to go after the supplement manufacturer because the “cure” didn’t work. False advertising, deceptive trade practices, whatever. Lots of ways that marketing something as a “cure”, when it isn’t, can go bad.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5656 Tue, 19 May 2009 23:15:27 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/i-think-im-losing-my-walnuts/#comment-5656 At least it’s tasty.

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