Word: herbalize
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...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...
...Even physicians who are skeptical of non-traditional therapies encounter patients who self-medicate with herbal treatments...
...Eisenberg stressed the need for traditional medical doctors to be willing to talk with patients about the herbal or botanical substances they are taking. He cited, for example, evidence that the popular herbal supplement St. John's Wort seriously impaired the ability of Indinavir, an anti-viral drug used to treat AIDS, to function in the blood stream...
...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...