XCancel: https://xcancel.com/ronnui_/status/1294677498064756737
Original: https://x.com/ronnui_/status/1294677498064756737
Related story:
A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.
My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy “helpfully” telling her that she was grabbing one “For Men™”, that the ones “For Women™” were the pink ones.
I immediately looked at the guy like “lol what, who asked”.
(My mom uses “men’s” antiperspirants because she doesn’t care about that, and they are usually cheaper than “women’s”)
It’s often dumb too, there is nothing denoting plant smells as to one gender. The smell of flowers, of herbs, is not something one sex appreciates more than another.
Only in the modern era with the advent of drugs and the destruction of small farmers and even most vegetable and herb gardens, with 99 percent of produce coming from factory farms, has it been seen as weak and womanly for men to use herbal medicines, and to appreciate flowers and herbs and the like.
For thousands of years we used plants for medicine, and now it’s seen as womanly, and of course the drug companies have campaigned to remove our rights to do it completely, for our own protection. We could hurt ourselves, leave it to the trained professionals that operate on the rules government stipulates. As if we could all get medical coverage and drug coverage in this medical hellscape even if we did surrender our rights to treat ourselves.
I don’t think I should have to get a permission slip from a doctor to do things all generations prior to the last few have.
What a wild pivot from “flowers are for all genders” to 'bring back homeopathic medicine, I don’t need no stinking doctors telling me what plants I should rub on my wounds!" lmao
Edit: sorry for conflating homeopathic and herbal medicine, they was dumb of me. I was just trying to point out what I though was a funny swing from one topic to another pretty unrelated topic
Herbal medicine is how we created aspirin, and is a mix of actually effective things that have become medicine over time and placebos. It generally has positive outcomes.
Homeopathic ‘medicine’ is magic water that heals with vibrations. It is 100% bullshit.
Nicolas Culpeper wrote his Complete Herbal in the mid 17th century, and I think I’m right in saying it’s never been out of print. It’s a great read - if you ever imagined travelling back in time to his day, this book would put you right off. It’s full of remedies for foul ulcers, bloody flux and plague sores.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513
Herbal medicine, to be free to use plants for medicine as we see fit as adults, and not need a permission slip from a doctor.
Homeopathic medicine is something different.
And doctors won’t tell you anything on using plants because they can only prescribe things that have passed clinical trials and no one will pay billions of dollars to do that for a plant that they can’t patent. In europe and elsewhere they do prescribe some plants but not here in the US.
Maybe you should learn what you are talking about before taking a position condemning it.
Where do you live that you need permission from a doctor to take herbal medicine? You can go pick some flowers and brew a tea any time you want. Every drug store in my country has a whole section of herbal remedies.
Besides, I’ve had two psychs support my use of ashawaghanda, omega-3s and psilocybin mushrooms. One even gave me recommendations on where to get the good shit. However, I stopped doing both when I found a new anti-depressant more consistently effective, where continuing using products that effect the same brain chemicals would have bad side effects.
No, they can’t legally prescribe it, but they can advise me on it, just like they can’t prescribe excercise but they still tell me about good places to hike.
Naturopaths, nutritionists and dieticians are a thing, too. GPs just don’t have that specific training, though nutrition is becoming more integrated into medicine.
edit: a typo