Is Chinese Herbal Medicine Snake Oil or The Next Cancer Cure?

Are you a skeptics when it comes to herbal medicine that you have never heard of before? For example, the Chinese herb called Codonopsis. Have you heard of it? (Click on it to find out more)
If the answer is no, does this make it "Snake Oil" ? Snake Oil has been used as a derogatory name meaning fake or phony medicine. Some say the term comes from the 19th-century American traveling salesman selling cure-all elixirs they called Snake Oil back in the day.
Should herbal medicine get a bad rap just because you haven't heard of every one of the 6,000 plus, herbal substances in existence? Even though Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a history going back to about 400 BC, those who dont understand what these herbal remedies can do may still refer to it as Snake Oil.
Regardless of the origins or use of the term "Snake Oil", the skeptics may want to re-think the term when applying it to Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Here's why.
Snakes may hold a key substance to curing cancer!
Researcher at Hong Kong Baptist University are using snake venom proteins to develop anti-cancer drugs.
Snake use has been recorded in ancient books for over a thousand years. Although some people are not believe! rs in he rbal remedies, including those from snakes, it seems a pharmaceutical company in Hong Kong is quite a believer.
This pharmaceutical company is betting millions of dollars that snake oil may just be the next cancer cure. They plan on using the snake venom of a Viper snake, (which is quite inexpensive to farm raise) to produce a low-cost anti-cancer drug from snake venom with high efficacy and minimal adverse effects to normal cells. They have already had success with this "Snake Oil" now time will tell whether large scale production will be a winning cure.
See the whole story here:
http://net2.hkbu.edu.hk/~enews/view_article.php?id=15320
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