For that matter all BP and 99% of main Type 2 diabetic medicine ( Metformin) are plant-based extracts from flowers.
Metformin is derived from the plant, Galega officinalis Linn. [Figure 1]. G.
officinalis is commonly known as Goat's rue, French lilac, Italian fitch, and
Professor-weed.
BP from Rauwolfia Serpentina and the politics and false claims and
credits in science.
Nature, especially, sand, stones, rocks, mountains, water ( various kinds)
and plants have tucked in them immense potential and still, too many mysteries
and subtle answers to many issues because the environment is part of our tissue
- the obverse is equally true.
However, unfortunately, the world of politics and activism have brain washed
humanity to distance itself from nature and started addressing ' environmental
issues ( forgetting it is part of our tissue).
That's why I keep insisting educational institutions to include the study of
life of Washington Carver, the book by Guy Murchie " The Seven
Mysteries of Life", Two books by Peter Tompkins ' The Secret
Life of Plants', ' The Secret Life of Nature' and 'Secrets of the Soil'.
'The Hidden Life of Trees', Peter Wohlleben
(What they Feel, How they Communicate).
Masaru Emoto's ' Secret Life of Water'.
Recent one published in 1999 by the great modern Science writer Matt Ridley
" Genome-Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters".
If only, the human brain can keep aside its noisy over crowded mind and
brain for at least brief moments and silently observe with childlike curiosity
using all the faculties and focus, then such an observation may lead to some
new perceptions, sensations which may later on be dropped in the cauldron of
intellectual and academic churning adding and removing various inputs and find
out the outcomes
We cannot over generalize and pit everything or anything against something
else.
Everything can coexist but subject to certain conditions which have come to
be accepted universally for various valid reasons and they need not be brushed
aside as Western or Eastern.
There are requirements and procedures in everything. One cannot walk into a
school classroom and take classes even if one is better than all the existing
teachers in the school. One cannot go and occupy a cabin in a bank and decide
on loan disbursement though one may be better than any existing bank manager.
Similarly, there are many basic requirements for any product to be
introduced, especially in medical field like proper documentation of the
ingredients, empirical proof, double-binding, peer review (it may have its own
short comings) and universal availability and accessibility to the product.
BP from Rauwolfia Serpentina and the politics and false claims and
credits in Science.
https://contentwriteups.
Similar is the case with the controversies surrounding many patents. I shall
give an example for this from one of my articles that I wrote for the Indian
Express some 25 years back. At that time there used to be a supplement on every
Tuesday called Science Express where I wrote half page article. Some extracts
“For example as early as 601 AD in the Vaghbata complied by Indian
physicians there is mention about the medicinal herb ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA’ and
only in 1949 in the prestigious British Heart Journal an Indian physician
Rustom Jal Vakil published that powdered root of ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA is
very effective in lowering blood pressure. Then in 1952 Reserpine was isolated
by Swiss chemist employed by CIBA under the direction of Emil Schlitter who
produced pure crystals of active ingredient in ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA and Boston
heart specialist Robert Wallace Wilkins observed that Reserpine not only
reduced blood pressure but also reduced anxiety. Now to whom will you give the
Patents’? Leave alone all the controversies surrounding the product itself.
Unfortunately, things are further complicated, especially in the field of
science, by the nexus and fights between industry and academia. While one of them
has credibility the other has incredible influence. They generate with the help
of media and publicity wings many questions of morality versus utility etc and
the ultimate causality is truth.
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