Consider the source

FindArticles is a place where anybody can submit and article (without being paid for it) and thus see their names in print, just like a "authority" or "real author". They also link to other sites where free articles can be found.

I am familiar with the gist of the article, which the "author" merely copied from another source and evidently added a few of her own impressive and authoritative words like "chewing on gooey slime". It is true that studies have failed to find any miraculous healing properties - but then what those studies have done is merely identify some of the various compounds and minerals, much like other "studies" on other proven natural remedies and subtances have done in an attempt to discredit them.

What those studies, and what modern medicine as defined by the FDA and AMA, fail to recognize or admit is that nature works synergistically and the overall benefit of a natural substance is much more than the sum or its parts or of any single individual part.

That is precisely why man's lab created drugs fail miserably and often come laden with dangerous side effects - the drug labs attempt to isolate a single compound or synthesize it so that it can be patented and profited from. In the process, they lose the synergy of nature and end up with a useless or less effective, and often dangerous, substitute. Tweet