Comparative studies of meds vs herbs?

May 12, 2009

Alon,

Are there studies done on conventional cholesterol-lowering meds

vs. red yeast rice (naturally occuring statins) or Shan zha ?

How about conventional anti-depressants

vs. xiao yao san or gan mai da zao tang?

Thanks.

K

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:31 AM, alon marcus <alonmarcus wrote:

>

> " In all of my research, I've continually found the same answer.

> A similar argument can be drawn with - /at least/ certain -

> pharmaceuticals. Depression medications are still prescribed even

> though studies show they work only as good as a placebo. Cholesterol

> lowering drugs are still prescribed even though they continually show

> to not lower cholesterol. "

>

> Josh these statement show that you like to ignore evidence and choose

> only those that support your views. The VAST majority of studies on

> antidepressants show that they do work... as are studies on

> cholesterol drugs. You may argue that lowering cholesterol is not

> smart or that death rates dont change but not lowering cholesterol

> that is ignorant.

>

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May 12, 2009

There's many studies on those subjects in Chinese journals, but

unfortunately they're all of (very) poor methodological quality.

Tom Verhaeghe

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