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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by matheusmoreira on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:46PM (#30307392)
Completely agree. The fact that certain "natural" supplements mimic the pharmacodynamics of existing drugs is nothing new. Certain teas are diuretic but nobody is gonna prescribe tea instead of thiazides.
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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by ls15 on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:49PM (#30308434)
> The fact that certain "natural" supplements mimic the pharmacodynamics of existing drugs is nothing new.

This can also be viewed from the opposite end:

> The fact that certain "drugs" mimic the pharmacodynamics of existing natural substances is nothing new.

Actually I find it more appropriate to say that the man-made substance mimics nature.

People have been using natural remedies for thousands of years.

Oetzi the Iceman carried a piece of Fomes Fomentarius 5,000 years ago, a fungus that apparently was used as a diuretic in Indic folk medicine:

https://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2001.html

I have no reason to believe that it did not work.

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