alcoholic rats clean up act after getting version of herbal remedy
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
August 14, 2009 3:15pm CST
kudzu is used in traditional chinese medicine to treat addictions, and has been shown to help boozing animals and humans to cut down. recently a synthetic version was tested on some unfortunate rats and it appeared to reduce their cravings.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090812-kudzu-alcoholic.html?source=email_wn_20090814
what traditional or alternative medicines have you used, for what and did you think they helped?
i once was given some homeopathic medicine when i got a nasty stomach bug when travelling and was very surprised to find it worked. (i'd always thought homeopathic stuff was basically just placebos).
2 responses
@sutent (1060)
• China
15 Aug 09
Hi,
Traditional Chinese medicines, of course i used. It have therapeutic effect on many diseases, especially on chronic disease. It had been tested several thousands years by Chinese and many Chinese are still using them. SO you should not be surprise it can work. And in some chronic diseases, tranditional Chinese medicine is more preferred than west medicine in China.
By the way, i had respond your message. Wish it can give some help to you.
Happy mylotting!
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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14 Aug 09
I rarely need to take anything apart from the occasional analgesic for the rare headache, and I've never considered useing a homeopathic remedy for anything at all. However, I did once meet a woman who believed in these "natural" medicines and she tried a preparation that was supposed to combat travel sickness. It made her sick! 
Not quite the desired result! 
Not quite the desired result! @jb78000 (15139)
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14 Aug 09
the one thing my mother's family and my father's family had in common was a strong belief in homeopathic stuff, as a result i was given lots of it as a child. it rarely had a perceivable effect which is one of the reasons i was surprised when it worked on the stomach bug.
actually to be fair the ointments (arnica and so on) did seem to work as far as i remember.