HERB - research theories (was: honey as medicinal)

[John+Lynette]

Quite honestly, I understand why it is not done.  Not so long ago I did the
same.  Until I began learning how good research is done and how to recognize
useless or misleading research.  Also I began learning more about herbs from
a professional medical stand point. It gives one a whole other perspective.
Herbal medicine is, I believe, fascinating because it is so available it
allows one to play doctor so to speak.  That is well and good but it is not
play they can and do interact powerfully within the body.  I don't for a
minute think we should be denied access but should be aware that we are not
at odds with the medical community, and that to believe so could result in
hiding what we are doing and be harmful because a physician has not been
given the whole picture.
Common belief seems to be if it is natural it is good; and it is safe. And I
do not need a physician or need to involve him/her.
My motto is Hemlock is natural.

----- Original Message -----
From: Gaylin Walli <gwalli at infoengine.com>
To: <herbalist at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:25 AM
Subject: HERB - research theories (was: honey as medicinal)


> In most of the research we do as people interested in medieval
> herbalism, medieval medical botany, and medieval nutrition (among
> the many other topics that we seem to hang on to in order to support
> the herbal habit, so to speak) I think this course of action is *always*
> the best regarding modern studies. I wonder sometimes that people
> don't do this more often and also wonder if it wouldn't help for
> people in, say, a Royal University setting to have a class taught on
> modern research theory, even if it is a class on the merest basics,
> in order to help them out with the research they conduct to support
> their medieval habit.
>
> jasmine
> iasmin de cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com
>
>
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