How true are these likely to improve health and effect magical cures?

Question

Ginseng, garlic,ginger, acupuncture, spiritual healing, Ayurveda medicine?
Any other herbs, Eastern-style techniques,etc you have heard about that can cure major illnesses?

Answer 1

No scientific documented evidence exists that any of these will 'cure' major illness . . what role they play and their benefit remains to be proven. The biggest problem I have with any of them is how terribly difficult it seems to be for anyone to provide evidence of any effect .. . there does seem to be some small benefits such as ginger helping with nausea or some people receiving comfort from spiritual healings, but nothing really that would make any huge difference to someone fighting advanced cancer. It seems in order to find anyone with any type of claim that these treatments 'worked' . . takes an enormous amount of investigation . .you would think that if any of them worked it would be very, very easy to prove since most of this stuff is so readily available. So . . if there is any benefit at all it is so slow that no one can ever tell if they've had a benefit or not. And, if you know anything about how fast cancer tumors can spread and grow larger . . than these types of treatments would be so slow as to be ineffective.

Answer 2

While many of the things you mentioned are said to improve overall health, there are no specific, scientific studies to prove this, one way or the other.

If you enjoy them, they will probably do you no harm, and may help.

If you are under treatment from a registerd Dr, check that they will not interfere with the treatment they are prescribing.