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...with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease it is supposed to cure...
...experiment led him to formulate his famous Law of Similars. If a substance produces certain debilitating symptoms in a healthy person, he reasoned, then a small dose could be used to treat the same symptoms in an ill patient. Hahnemann called his new method of healing "homeopathy," from the Greek homoios (like) and pathos (suffering). Using his seven children as guinea pigs, he began testing hundreds of plants and minerals, eventually compiling the list of substances and symptoms that forms the core of today's Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia...
...truth is that Grace's U.S. patent has no effect in India, whose laws prohibit the patenting of agricultural products; Indian farmers are free to use neem seeds as they always have. Beyond that, Grace's patent may be upheld. The company found a way to treat traditional neem-seed extract to increase shelf life from weeks to years--just the sort of innovation patent laws cover. Even an environmentalist like Walt Reid of the World Resources Institute, based in Washington, admits, "I won't be surprised if the challenge doesn...
...treaty eventually goes into effect, the neem-seed case will remain a murky one. The neem tree is indeed part of India's historic pharmacopoeia; it is known in Sanskrit as sarva roga nivarini, "the curer of all ailments." Its branches, leaves and seeds are used to treat, among other things, leprosy, diabetes, ulcers, skin disorders and constipation. The seeds' pesticidal powers, exploited by farmers for centuries, have been studied by scientists for at least 50 years...
...that good doesn't rhyme with either food or blood. But passion, not precision, is her forte. Her soul-felt songs are the cries of a woman who lives with pain and learns from it. In the set's sweetest anthem, she sings, "So be your own parent/ And treat yourself good/ It's never too late/ To have a happy childhood." As the lifers and loners in Chapman's audience know, the good times have got to start sometime...