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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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[–] cheese_greater 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to buy them and drink them too 🍰

[–] [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.

[–] 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???

You may ask...

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

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[–] AutopilotP -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Super real.

Lavender has a wonderful sedating effect. I like to science, so I vaped some essential oil once upon a time.. very nice calming effects that make you want to sleep, but that doesn't knock you out. Great sleep, nice and cozy.

There's limited hard science becasue what's the incentive??

But thousands of years of use in practice, so that says something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The incentive is a publication on your CV.

Here's one

The problem is that people don't know how to search for scientific articles, and aren't versed in understanding what makes a study a good one.

Nearly all "alternative medicines" have been scientifically studied. The difference between them and regular medicines are that the real medicines have a clear clinical benefit.

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