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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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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.