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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by RandallBrown on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:41AM (#27107271)
Q: Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?

A: Medecine.

I think many old remedies have been tested and then get refined to work better. Willow bark was used for thousands of years as pain relief but now those chemicals found in the bark have been refined into aspirin.

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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by monkeybutton on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:21PM (#27109129)
The example from folk medicine I like is Ergot. It comes from a fungus, was used by midwives for hundreds of years, and scientists investigating its derivatives in the late 30s / early 40s is what lead to LSD's discovery.
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