04-10-2013, 07:56 AM | #16 |
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I just asked my wife about it. She knows 'kombucha,' but not as a fermented tea. It's common here, but as regular tea.
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I think there is some sort of sea weed concoction that is referred to as kombucha there. Not exactly the same thing.
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04-10-2013, 05:16 PM | #20 |
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Well, if the police caught you driving with 0.5% ethanol, I'm pretty sure they'd consider you drunk...
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04-10-2013, 05:30 PM | #22 |
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True dat too...
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Write down what happens. Science. It doesn't take a nuclear powered radioisotope positron counting machine to do science. Just more than "I've heard someone say he knew someone that thought a colleague mentioned it might not be bad". (Of course, it helps if the group is large enough and ideally no one knows who got the placebo and who got the real stuff. That can skew the results.) Alternatively you can try to figure out what exactly is in that stuff - though that's probably more complex than trying to document if it works or not. My guess would be lots of Vitamin B and C, as well as likely some sort of penicillin. In any case, I'd not try to recreate the stuff on your own. There is much that can go wrong if the wrong kind of bacteria/funghi join the fray inside that barrel. To clarify: I'm not saying that anything that is old must be a hoax - but lots of it is, and most isn't even that old anyway. That certain roots or whatever may aid various problems isn't really the the great epiphany - it's finding out what exactly is causing the good effect and separating that from the rest of the root that might just as well try to kill you. (Of course, it may just as well be the same stuff. Dose and poison and all that.) |
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