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Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by halflife »

krior wrote: post #8
msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.

I once sat next to a mint plant and it cured my cold, the farther I sat the better I felt. Obviously diluted mint particles in the air cured me.

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by msuniverse2026 »

krior wrote: post #8
msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.

and yet it moves :^)

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by zdragnar »

msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

There's tons of folk remedies that do absolutely nothing useful at all, too. When you don't have any reliable medicine, you take whatever you have on hand and hope for a placebo effect. Eventually, you find something helpful because even a broken clock is right twice a day.

There are recorded beliefs in medieval Germany, for instance, that carrying or wearing an eye from a bat will make you invisible.

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by the_real_cher »

roughly wrote: post #10

This is one of the things that’s deeply challenging for biology and biochemistry - it’s extremely resistant to the sort of reductionism that works so well for other fields. It’s rare to find a single compound, a single species, or a single pathway that’s responsible enough for an effect to show up in studies of the sort of power that one can muster without a ton of time and money, and as soon as you try to capture sy…

Hopefully AI can help us parse some of these massive data sets and interactions.

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by the_real_cher »

halflife wrote: post #11
krior wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.

I once sat next to a mint plant and it cured my cold, the farther I sat the better I felt. Obviously diluted mint particles in the air cured me.

How was your chakra alignment? That may have contributed to your recovery.

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by lapetitejort »

msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

Can you give an example of a well-known homeopathic and/or folk remedy that has been adopted into regular medicine, maybe in the last 20-50 years?

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by rkomorn »

lapetitejort wrote: post #17
msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

Can you give an example of a well-known homeopathic and/or folk remedy that has been adopted into regular medicine, maybe in the last 20-50 years?

I think the closest one ("but no cigar") might be oscillococcinum, but its popularity isn't due to doctors recommending it (because they don't, by and large).

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by gib444 »

msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

Obligatory Mitchell and Webb https://youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Post by nkrisc »

msuniverse2026 wrote: post #7

Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

What’s the physical basis for that?
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