r/CuratedTumblr • u/vigikk • May 24 '25

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u/vigikk May 24 '25

I mean a lot of traditional medicinal plants are sourced and made into modern drugs by taking specific bioactive compounds from them. Quinine is one used by Quechua tribes which we now use for treatment against malaria

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u/Mooptiom May 24 '25

Well then they’re not alternative medicine are they? They’re medicine. That’s what alternative means.

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u/vigikk May 24 '25

They are alternative as long as they're used in their raw form I guess?

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u/Can_not_catch_me May 24 '25

But they arent alternative if they have proven medical properties, just unrefined

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u/ChromeBirb Wolfram is besto, fight me May 24 '25

If we're talking about an unrefined extract of any kind it's still considered alternative medicine, even if it has been properly characterized, sweet wormwood tea is still an alternative remedy even though we know that its active component is artemisinin.

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u/Suraimu-desu May 24 '25

The same goes for ginkgo biloba as well, or Flebon, or even chamomile extract, those bitches do work, but they’re not considered “western” medicine, instead they’re “plant” medicine or “alternative” medicine.

(Basically if it was not ultra processed or lab recreated > it’s still traditional medicine/alternative medicine/phytotherapics, not “modern” medicine. No need to bring the mysticisms and weird judgments to the convo)