Can Common Herbs Extend Your Life?

Baack · Mar 31, 2010

Most Americans have used herbal drugs during the past year, even though in nearly all cases there is no clear scientific evidence that they work. Now, an international team of scientists has found a way to collect that evidence, and even determine which components of very complex compounds are doing the work, and which aren't.

effort is lead by Yuan Luo, an associate professor in the University of Maryland's department of pharmaceutical science, who grew up in China where many herbal remedies that are used today have been used for thousands of years.
"This provides the first step to find, from all of the hundreds of compounds in herbs, which ones have potential for medicinal purposes. And you can do this very quickly and efficiently," said Laura Dosanjh, a graduate student and coauthor of a paper describing the research in the journal PLoS ONE.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/common-herbs-extend-life/story?id=10243778

Hardlyevr · Mar 31, 2010

one of the great medical mysteries to me is the documented placebo effect that some people can get better just because they think something will help them. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a placebo on the market that cures everything! Must be a medical conspiracy.

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