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Is lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I buy these things but I wonder if they are truly pharmacologically-active and not just bullshit. Discuss

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[–] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But thousands of years of use in practice, so that says something.

Could be placebo

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[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Quacks always forget that for thousands of years we died to stupid bullshit, all the time.

Modern medicine is a big reason we have 8 billion people now, instead of a few million.

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[–] lyam23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Agriculture and penicillin are largely responsible for the population boom.

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