What happens when you blindly take traditional, alternative and
otherwise unproven preparations for medical conditions? Prepare
for the distinct possibility of irony. There’s a way of knowing
whether a given compound has therapeutic properties and whether
it’s safe in general – scientifically controlled clinical
studies. Alternative remedies, which include many traditional
and regional preparations were not the result of scientific
study. A few have been subjected to scientific scrutiny and
proven to be worthwhile. When this happens, they stop being
“alternative medicine” and become simply “medicine.” For all the
rest, it’s just hit or miss, and more often than not, it’s miss.
Guided by old traditions, anecdotes and old wives tales, the
actual effect on the body could be just about anything. Such
would seem to be the case with birthwort. Birthwort is a family
of plants which have been regarded as medicinally beneficial for
centuries, despite complete lack of evidence for this. The exact
reason for the belief