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...considering the effectiveness of any medicine, conventional or herbal, it's important to consider that the placebo effect, or the patient's desire to believe in a cure, can have a powerful influence. Recent studies show, for instance, that while 86% of men taking a baldness remedy reported that it worked, so did 42% of men taking a placebo...
Doctors in Sydney recruited 116 patients who had not responded well to Western treatments. They divided them into three groups and sent each group to a Chinese herbalist, who wrote each patient an individualized prescription based on his or her complaints. Each prescription was then filled at a different location, where patients were randomly given pills that contained either a placebo of flavored compounds that tasted like herbs but had no medicinal effects, a standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that...
...danger of using a virus, as the New York team does, may be infection. No such problem has arisen so far. Another possibility: you might not be able to repeat the procedure, because the patient's body may have developed an immunity to the virus that was used the first time. Rosengart expects it will be possible in the future to do repeat procedures simply by using a different strain of the virus...
Meantime, one oscillates between extremes of depression and gratitude--gratitude being the only decent thing a patient can feel at medicine's largesse. Of course one slides back and forth through a middle range of buoyancy and irritability. A few weeks ago, I went to the Harvard Club and cleared out the squash locker that I had used twice a week for more than 20 years. An aging yuppie's lament: no more squash. I was depressed until it began to seem funny, as if John O'Hara had written that moment of my life...
...menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash of ketchup that added a tangy touch-as well as a funky pinkish color. The buffet also included...