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“The whole
natural substances do well: for example the strychnine”. This
way a twenty years ago article issued by the “Corriere”,
oriented to pour reasonably oil on the troubled waters of the idolater
neophytes followers of Messegué, whose tisanes they smoked, every kind
of herbs decocts, lumping everything together. As much powerful in their
benefits, if correctly used, as their poisoning is powerful if administered
too much “unconcernedly”, for mere “alternative”
recall. Along this same directive nowadays in Italy
it's coming came out homeopathy, turning into much more quite the work
of the Antivenin Centres (for example the “national” one
of Niguarda near Milan). Because it does go on getting there the battered
people who mistook leaf, berry or root, but the 50% interventions goes
on concerning children that have ingurgitated complete box of medicines
left unguarded. But by now the medicine that is very popular is the
homeopathic one, so every thing ends with a big fright of relatives,
first convinced that it “does well” and than they are afraid
it could “hurt”, unconsciously mindful of having never met
Paracelsus. Since, we must
remind it, if Homeopathy is the art of dilution, instead when making
decoctions, infusions, tisanes etc. only active principles are extracted
from herbs and concentrated in the cup. That means: pay attention to
not concentrate inside oneself the action or better the interaction
of herbs among themselves and with medicines without coordination. The
University of California in Los Angeles hurried to spread a first list
of such interactions, that it's advisable to give strengthened divulgation.
Let's talk about Hypericum, with which the British Medical Journal dealt
with lately, publishing the results of a double-blind multi-centre randomised
survey, proving that the'” Saint John's wort” has the same
function of the imipramine (and higher than placebo) in putting under
control both anxiety and light depression, and overcomes both medicines
in bettering the general physic condition. Well. To confirm, it makes
one to tell, about the Hypericum activity over organism, that from Los
Angeles arrive two warnings: A serotonin syndrome is at risk if linked
to serotonin-synergic; paired to tetracycline it powers the photo-sensitisation. And what about
the gingko, already omnipresent even if with inverted genre and writing? It is worthy in
geriatrics to support memory and legs circulation, but it must not be
linked to the FANS and other anticoagulants, neither with anti-depressants
MAO-inhibitors, even if it's beneficial to support the sexual functionality,
contrasted just by certain anti-depressant medicines. Keeping in the
brain zone, the Mirabilis jalapa (alias anagra) gives an “oil”
that not only lowers the hyper-blood cholesterol, but also the efficacy
level of the anti-epileptic and anti-psychotic medicines. The ginseng goes
on being the first protagonist on the scene of the herbal/exotic/alternative
“perking up. In Los Angeles they assert that its nervous and cardiac
stimulation action, perhaps moves away impotence, but brings closer
hypertension, tachycardia and hyperglycaemia: neither the ginseng is
advisable for diabetics, in which it potentiates these further risk
factors, featured nevertheless the action of anticoagulant medicines... Well then. It's
right to use herbs as medicines - resuming and going on from where it
started- but without forgetting that “pharmakon” meant first
of all “poison” and then “medicament”. And reminding
exactly the whole sentence of Teofrasto Bombast von Hohenheim called
the Paracelsus (1493-1541), a German graduated in medicine at Ferrara,
and who carried out special studies over the “population diseases”,
and he was among the first to extract chemically the active principles
from herbs to maintain them the longest possible as they were fresh
and not drooped by dryness. So Paracelsus wrote: “Everything is
poison /and nothing is exempt of poisons/only dosage decides/ or not
/what is poison.” Remind it for Messegué, but let's forget it
for the “Art to recover” (1810) by Samuel Friederich C.
Hahnemann: thank to their submolecular dilutions his homeopathic products
remind us how to stimulate wealth, but even with the permission of the
Antivenin Centres, there' not enough to do bad: it's right to call them
“medicaments” and not “medicines”. Born in 1743,
the Saxony German, the Father of Homeopathy employed thoroughly the
concept of his fellow countryman Father of pharmaceutics: he reduced
the dosis at an extent... Nevertheless since
so many centuries far accounts do not balance: the Paracelsus basis
insisted on medicine for populations, is the homeopathic medicine cheap? As Messegué maybe? |
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