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No reputible drug company or group is going to spend the money to do a real test of a natural cure. The costs are very high, and there is no return for the investment. You can't patent a natural cure. It's all about the money.
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This isn't strictly correct.
Statins come from red yeast rice. The very first statin, was chemically identical to the one produced by red yeast rice, and they certainly managed to patent that.
assuming for one minute that cinnamon contains a pharmacological compound that lowers blood sugar. It can be extracted, purified, and tested, and if it is proven to be effective, then it can most certainly be patented and is most definitely worth money.
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I don't believe that this was a valid experiment, nor do I believe for a moment that it was a double blind experiment.
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no that's right they looked at the results from 5 double blinded placebo trials, and concluded that there wasn't an effect. Unless of course all those researchers were lying...
and the stated reason for the study?
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Coleman told Reuters Health that the inspiration for conducting this specific analysis came from one of his research fellows, Dr. William Baker. "He works in a chain pharmacy as a pharmacist, now and then, and he was asked by a patient whether cinnamon was useful in treating diabetes."
"As pharmacists, we want to be able to provide patients ... with the best information about these over-the-counter treatments, which are often readily available but under researched," Coleman said
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The proliferation of "natural cures" like cinnamon whose claims rely on small poorly performed trials. Are inadequately regulated as they count only as a food supplement and not a drug, and so don't have follow the strict guidelines on safety that a pharmocological drug has to. And then make claims that they have a pharmacological action.
this I think is a real problem, but is dismissed because the product is labelled as natural.
don't worry it's alright, it's natural...
so is botulism
