cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoIs lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit?message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareIs lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
I buy these things but I wonder if they are truly pharmacologically-active and not just bullshit. Discuss
minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNo. In fact I have never seen a health claim from a hippie that was not eventually borne out by science.
minus-squareAutopilotP@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoLemongrass reduces anxiety: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26366471/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21767622/ . But where are the multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over studies on thousands of subjects??? You may ask… Ain’t nobody got incentive for that. It’s lemongrass.
minus-squaremommykink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIdk dude I had a real old school asheville hippie try to tell me once that you only got lung cancer if you smoked filtered cigarettes so I’m not sure about that
No. In fact I have never seen a health claim from a hippie that was not eventually borne out by science.
Lemongrass reduces anxiety:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26366471/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21767622/
.
But where are the multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over studies on thousands of subjects???
You may ask…
Ain’t nobody got incentive for that. It’s lemongrass.
Idk dude I had a real old school asheville hippie try to tell me once that you only got lung cancer if you smoked filtered cigarettes so I’m not sure about that