[ SECRET POST #5826 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5826 ⌋

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Re: From yesterday's general comments...

[(Anonymous)]

DA

As someone who's lived in a number of different countries and been truly amazed at the differences in what's considered scientifically proven in Europe, as opposed to the US, you might be dealing with Americans who aren't aware of the extent to which practically every branch of medicine except "prescribing pharmaceuticals" and "doing surgery" was relegated to "the FDA considers this pseudoscience". There are still a lot of things being touted as medicine in capitalist countries (the US included) that are not therapeutic, obviously, and there is a lot of anxiety and desperation about disease, so people also grasp at straws. But "which treatments are quackery" is something that educated Americans tend to be very convinced their government got right, without realizing that the US is a far outlier compared to a lot of countries that have better patient outcomes in less expensive medical systems.

Also, in some fairly baseline ways you might not be talking about the same thing as the people replying to you (despite everyone thinking that they are), because countries that treat essential oils as medicine tend to be strict about what can go in them and how they are processed. There's a degree of quality control and holding producers responsible that unfortunately is not legally mandated in a country that's mostly going "put 'not intended to treat any disease' on the packaging. After that, buyer beware."

I can't hang out in the thread tonight, I just wanted to mention this.

Re: From yesterday's general comments...

[(Anonymous)]

Ughh, thanks for saying this. Of course when I say "essential oil" I mean the real deal, not whatever they're selling in the US and calling essential oil (sigh). Really I am trying to not let this delve into a "blah blah your culture" type of discussion but I do feel like we are not talking about the same product, much less speaking about it from the same perspective, and am walking on eggs here trying to say "SOME of this stuff you're dissing actually works and there IS scientific research proving it so don't throw the baby out with the bathwater (though I understand you're wary because your country has a very weird health system generally)" .

It's crystal clear that pyramid schemes ain't it though. But it's not a fad here so I have never personally seen anyone seriously advising essential oils as a replacement for any conventional treatment, and probably have an easier time seeing them for what they are not the panacea they seem to be advertised in some country/ies as (which I couldn't be less aware of and even so I can guess is bs, because that's how marketing for pyramid schemes everywhere go).