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Is lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by cheese_greater to c/[email protected]

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I buy these things but I wonder if they are truly pharmacologically-active and not just bullshit. Discuss

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. In fact I have never seen a health claim from a hippie that was not eventually borne out by science.

[–] PP_BOY_ 3 points 1 year ago

Idk dude I had a real old school asheville hippie try to tell me once that you only got lung cancer if you smoked filtered cigarettes so I'm not sure about that

[–] AutopilotP 2 points 1 year ago

Lemongrass reduces anxiety:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26366471/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21767622/

But where are the multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over studies on thousands of subjects???

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Ain't nobody got incentive for that. It's lemongrass.