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Confirmed: Snake Oil Works Better Than Pharmaceuticals

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-snake-oil-works-better-pharma-pills

For many centuries, the Chinese used snake oil as a treatment for joint pain, arthritis, and bursitis. They brought this folk remedy with them when they arrived in the US in the mid-1800's to build the Transcontinental Railroad. That was backbreaking work. Synthetic pain-killers such as aspirin were not yet freely available. When the Chinese workers offered their remedy to Westerners as a palliative it was likely perceived to be a "primitive" form of "quackery" by the medical experts of that time. This is one probable origin of the derogatory meaning of the word "snake oil."

The ironic thing about modern pharmaceutical "snake oil," i.e. petrochemical-derived and patented synthetic chemicals, is that they often have considerably less value than a placebo, and in certain cases may not even compare in therapeutic value to actual snake oil.

To prove the point, below are listed four remarkable studies, as cited on the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database known as Medline, referring to the potential therapeutic properties of sea snake and boa constrictor lipids -- snake oil! -- for inflammation and infection......

Boa constrictor oil has potent anti-inflammatory and significant antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and S. pyrogenes.

Pubmed Data : 1: Acta Pol Pharm. 2008 Jul-Aug;65(4):477-80.

Article Published Date : Jul 01, 2008

Study Type : Human Study

Erabu sea snake oil has a beneficial effect on plasma glucose in diabetic mice.

Pubmed Data : 1: Ann Nutr Metab. 2006;50(5):425-32. Epub 2006 Jul 17.

Article Published Date : Jan 01, 2006

Study Type : Animal Study

Erabu sea snake oil improves the swimming endurance of aged mice by attenuating lactate production and enhancing lactate clearance.

Pubmed Data : 1: J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2007 Dec;53(6):476-81.

Article Published Date : Dec 01, 2007

Study Type : Animal Study

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Substances : Snake Lipids : CK(15) : AC(4)

The fat from the boa constrictor has an inhibitor effect on keloid and normal dermal fibroblasts, which may contribute to the inhibition of scarring.

Pubmed Data : 1: Br J Plast Surg. 1990 Mar;43(2):183-6.

Article Published Date : Mar 01, 1990

Study Type : In Vitro Study