>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and Jed Rothwell responded; >While I hate to agree with Park about anything, recent reports that >echinacea is ineffective seem to be based on careful research.
and John Rudiger responded ># The problem with identifying the "key" active ingredient for the purpose >of synthetic production is that you don't know what role all the other The key word here is synthetic. The drug companies have to create a new molocule so that they can patent it. The synergestic effect of the other molocules probably contributes too. Then there is the energy aspect. the plant derived chemicals have an aura from the living system which produced them, IMHO this contributes to the effect too. >chemicals in the original medicinal herb play. In many Homeopathic remedies Don't confuse the chemical effects of the phytochemicals in the herbal material with the energy effects of the homeopathic remedy. >even non-active chemicals in the herbal medicine play an important >(catalytic) role in support of the active ingredient. > >It is a shame that the majority of people alive today in the "western world" >have forgotten how to use herbal/homeopathic type remedies which now days The establishment has done it's best to miseducate the public on this as they do in everything else. >come under the title of "old wives tales", alternative medicine or crackpot >medicine! If an enemy force had done to America what the education establishment has done, we would consider it an act of war!
