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2289771 No.2289771 [Reply] [Original]

Why do pharmaceutical companies stock herbal medicines that aren't proven to work? I worked at one casually awhile back stocking shit, and the pharmacist says he tries to talk people out of buying some of the stuff they have to stock, usually unnecessfully. Because you know, what do pharmacists know about medicine?

>> No.2289774

>>2289771

Shut your hole. Head On works if you apply it DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.

>> No.2289778

>>2289771
>unnecessfully

>> No.2290376

This article might have some answers for you, OP.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pharm.html

>> No.2290384

because they make money by selling stupid people anything by saying that it's all natural

>> No.2290416

A better question would be: why do they stock homoeopathic "medicines" that not only do not work, but have no conceivable mechanism whereby they might work?

*Some* herbal medicines actually do work, but then the question becomes, why should they be preferred over chemical medicines other than "hurr durr natural?"