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BS, these plants are not from the same area, so there is nothings traditional about combining them.

Black walnut is from North America. Wormwood is from Eurasia and Africa.

Be kind. Consider that they meant "what people have been trying since the 1970s when health food stores popped up everywhere" when they say "traditional". There is nothing despicable about trying to experiment on your own to cure an ailment. It's a type of hacking

Ya thanks, I was referring to 'traditional' style medicine i.e. herbal formulas used by our ancestors rather than modern RX med style stuff.

Funny, I can't recall any hacks of mine where the public ended up footing a $150,000 ER bill to save my kidneys or my liver.

Would it have been different had you been told 'Sorry, we can't help you'?

Oh, please. Too much acetaminophen and alcohol does the same thing when the general public tries to hack happiness and pain. The public covers that all the time

The hacking is fine. Passing it off as a "traditional" cure through appelation to the cultural cachet associated with Exotic Others is not; it's naive at best and actively disingenuous at worst.

Kindness should not function as a free pass to allow people to spread falsehood.

yeah, they all have the effects of reducing removing sticky substances inside the body. I guess modern day mixtures simply mix the best of both regions into one concoction.

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