\n\tAn untested chemical that grows in the garden. Possibly not your<\/em> garden.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIt could be benificial – Aspirin<\/a> is after all a cleaned up and tested version of what was previously a herbal remedy. It could be safe; at least it could be safe in the kind of doses suggested (everything is poisonous enough in high enough doses – even water).\n<\/p>\n \n\tBut it has not been tested properly either for effectiveness, nor safety. And if it is effective, is it more effective than a placebo?\n<\/p>\n \n\tAnother way of saying an empty bottle. If you shake your bottle and it rattles or gurgles, send it back as it's got chemicals in it.\n<\/p>\n \n\tExpensive water.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn fact if there were any positive value to homeopathy, there would be no complaints of joint pain in hard water regions (calcium carbonate is supposedly a treatment for joint pain). And guess what? I get both hard water through my taps, and joint pain. \n<\/p>\n \n\t… as opposed to "man-made". Both are a means of production and neither means of production has any implications as to the effectiveness of a product.\n<\/p>\n \n\tHowever evolution does not tend to produce something whose sole purpose is to cure headaches; the willow tree evolved to have a nasty bitter tasting bark to discourage animals from eating its bark not to cure headaches. That was an accident. To treat a headache "naturally", you will need to find a willow tree, pull off a chunk of bark, grind it up, and eat it. A man-made pill labelled "Aspirin" is more readily available, safer (it only<\/em> contains the chemical for the headache treatment), and is less damaging to those poor willow trees.\n<\/p>\n \n\tSo in this case, "natural" is actually a bad thing.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAsking an imaginary friend for help. Frankly asking a real friend is just as likely to work, and any effectiveness is due to the placebo effect.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIf you want someone sticking pins in you to make a little wax figurine replica of you to say "Oww!" then by all means go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Herbal An untested chemical that grows in the garden. Possibly not your garden. It could be benificial – Aspirin is after all a cleaned up and tested version of what was previously a herbal remedy. It could be safe; at least it could be safe in the kind of doses suggested (everything is poisonous enough in high enough doses […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humour","category-7-id","category-13-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-Yj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\tChemical-Free
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tHomeopathy
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tNatural
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tFaith-Healing
\n<\/h2>\n\n\tAcupuncture
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