https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/herbalism-open-source-medicine/2011/02/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/herbalism-open-source-medicine/2011/02/04/comment-page-1#comment-469238 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:38:11 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=13476#comment-469238 The world of herbal supplements certainly makes use of intellectual property. How many such products have the verbiage “proprietary blend of…” in their “ingredients lists?” The health food store can also be something of a salesmanship zone. So it is no mystery that the health food industry has often been leading the charge for deregulation. Allopathic medicine, of course, has completely sold out to business. I’m assuming you’re lauding herbal medicine primarily as a body of knowledge rather than as an industry. But I think there is also a baby in the bathwater of allopathic medicine, consisting of honorable traditions like peer review, evidence-based medicine, public-ation of findings, etc. I also worry that people (under pressure from less generous employee benefits, and a new normal in which individuals are expected to eat more risk, for example) may be using herbal products as a cheap substitute for science-based medicine, which might in some cases lead to compromised health status.

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