Word: herbal
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After discovering my disappointing budget and skeptical tastes, the shopkeeper directed me up the street to the Chinese medicine counter of the Yue Hwa Chinese Products store. That was like a treasure chest of herbal helpers. I read the box labels and admired the packaging, most of it red and gold, some of it vaguely pornographic. All of the products make wide-ranging claims. East Superman Pills: "Strengthening the functional activities of the loins and knees, and the sinews and the bone as well." Strong Man Bao: "Fights recurring back aches, depression, degeneration and impotency." Chinese Dragon Tonic: "Battles impotence...
That was two weeks ago. The Sinphar Supra Softgels have yet to manifest any effect. There's no extra lead in my pencil and, I can only hope, none in the rest of my system either. (There have been frequent reports of herbal remedies containing dangerous levels of lead.) The spray turned out to be an awful product. It comes in a floral-print bottle and you're directed to spray it on liberally a few minutes before making love. The problem was that my brand didn't merely desensitize: it burned like Ben Gay. This made...
...Beijing office. South Korean businessman Joo Young Su paid a visit there last year and was struck by a program called Golden Horse. The software scans fingertips and then attempts to diagnose a person's health. Joo paid $1 million for the program, which he is marketing to herbal medicine shops that have computers. Samsung, meanwhile, paid $730,000 for five KCC programs, which it is loading onto its PCs. They include cooking software, a chess game and a reading program for children. "Their programmers don't have a lot of access to the outside world," says Samsung's Park...
...Some physicians may refuse to treat patients if they discover the patient is using herbal medications in addition to traditional drugs. Patients may therefore hesitate to tell their doctors about such outside treatment...
...criticizes scientific studies that attempt to isolate the single active component of herbal medicines. He says such studies do not appreciate the full effect that all the components the medicines have...