Letters to the Editor
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TV ads
There's big money in those prescription drugs advertised on TV. Patient comes in and there is a lot of pressure on the doctor to prescribe the stuff.
If one takes the time to become knowledgeable of herbal things, one won't go chasing this junk.
Pain killer? Try Ginger and Turmeric together. On the spice shelf in the grocery store.
Click on my name for Sunday's TV show.
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Penguins don't have nipples???
Who knew?
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Secondhand Lions
Great movie. Thx.
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herbal
Re: the first letter.
Herbal medicines, are you kidding me? I've seen folks in the herbal essences aisle of Wild Oats behave EXACTLY like the pair in this comic. It's the intellectual-who-reads-Salon version of jumping on the Big Pharma bandwagon. How about NOT trying to get other people around you to be part of your herd?
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perhaps a hybrid solution is best..
I get pretty good results with Priusol and a little tumeric.
Also - ask your Chinese pharmacist today about 爱聊年来. I think the bottle says it best:
一直致力于为全球华人提供婚恋交友聊天服务，是中国最早的专业聊天婚恋交友服务网站。目前，网站的注册会员已经超过万，真实聊天,约会交友,婚姻恋爱,爱聊视频聊天室成为全球华人专业在线聊天择偶服务领域的第一品牌。
To recover from all that chinese script, try Sinosol.
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Hmm
Every day I see more and more reasons to be glad I don't have TV.
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@Allie_
The difference being that most herbal remedies will cost a tenth of the pharma kind, if that. I remember once being prescribed a medicine for a yeast infection that would have set me back $75. I went to the grocery store, bought some yogurt and acidopholus, and cleared up the problem for a grand total of $6.50. No contest, as far as I'm concerned.
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@clamshell
Isn't that just yak loin?
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Yeah!
One of your best in a while, BB!
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I get all my medical advice
From total stranger random potheads on Salon.
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Wow, it's personalized!
Berkeley knows we're not reading a newspaper. Thanks, Berkeley!
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You forgot one...
Bayer can have the side of effect of AIDs, that is, if you live outside of the US and are not in view of the ever watchful eyes of the FDA...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY
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Herbal remedy for pain?
How about willow bark (otherwise known as asprin)?
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Second Tier, here we come!!!
Mr. Breathed,
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
I forced everyone I know (or perhaps more accurately, suggested that it would be best for) everyone to read last week's strip. I could not believe how far you went; I could not believe that so few understood why you went there, and moreover why you had to.
Last week was brilliant.
This week is transcendent!
All the greens and oranges and ambers out there don't sweat it. A new wave is upon us, and as the Founders rejected the crown, so we shall reject the oligarchy, and retake the ways and the means for the betterment of all mankind.
Melodramatic? Fuck yes. We deserve nothing less!
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Here's something folks who read Salon do know...
...and that's that Berkeley Breathed stopped creating original or funny comic strips a decade ago.
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@ 2:03 Marwa33186. okay.
From this moment on I'll toss away NAPPOXEN 500MG TABS. They may me dizzy anyway.
From now on I'll be outside gnawing at the base of a Weeping Willow Tree. You are sure?
Opus lost teats?
My toe sure is achy.
Are you a tree doctor?
Bark makes me feel frisky.
Are you a vet puppy tree quack?
Duck tape on nipples? No pop out?
Who can find the invisible scotch tape?
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mattwa33186.
I feel lecherous. I'll scratch a name illegibly. I'm sorry to not spell well. My spelling report card always was full of D's.
I always weeped,
on report card day.
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Lasting relief
I doctor myself for the most part, thanks. A bourbon deficiency is frankly pretty easy to treat and doesn't require any specific dosing schedule. For most other things I prescribe Coitus.
The pharmaceutical industry never calls their products 'drugs'. The word could have negative connotations which might lead people to suspect that pharmaceutical companies are drug pushers who want people to do drugs. Instead, they're always referred to as 'medicines'. Medicines are only there to 'help' you, and they're always just so selfless about it. The word 'medicine' is always associated with optimistic professionals in white coats who would never sell you snake oil. Drug pushers can always cast themselves as the Good Guys and have some excellent propaganda going for them.
Side effects can be dangerous. Some drugs can apparently make people vote Republican and yet somehow leave them feeling good about, despite the systemic damage. All very insidious.
Want to feel better? Try not taking half your 'medicines', the half that aren't for something definite like hypertension or diabetes. Get some exercise, and stop eating crap.
Face facts, folks. The Medical Industry comprises corporations whose purpose is to Maximize Shareholder Value and to Justify the Bonuses of Executives. Your 'health' is not actually a concern, but your lack of it is a lever they can exploit to make bigger and better bucks. People become doctors because they're egoistic and/or want to get rich, not because they're selfless and want to 'help' people, which is what every one of them put down on their medical school application in a 1000-word essay.
They're genuinely concerned about you, though. They're deeply concerned about how much 'health care' you can afford.
Medical industry: "Pay up or die."
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Electro Robot
I get all my medical advice
From total stranger random potheads on Salon.
No wonder you're so.... umm.. lucid..
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Funny But True
Which one will treat the sparks shooting from my penguin nipples? I get confused...
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Aycharaych
Put down the shrooms, girl. They're not a lifestyle choice.
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@GoodCelery!
No worries about the misspelling.
But I was referring to the idea of using spices for pain relief, when aspirin is really pretty natural already. For me, the one redeeming virtue of the pharmaceutical industry is all the great painkillers they provide us with.
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Today's inspirational haiku:
If penguins don't have
nipples, then where do all the
sparks come from? (Oop, ack!)
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If one takes the time to become knowledgeable of herbal things
The idea is to learn how to use herbs. They can be obtained in capsules in health stores or on line. Wal-Mart and grocery stores now carry some of them.
I well remember when there was an attempt by the drug industry to block the sale of herbal remedies. That was done under the first Clinton administration. I forget the guy's title, a red head who wore very thick glasses. He was President Clinton's hatchet man.
Every health food store in the country joined the drive to write to Congress. They had red tags on everything that would be banned. The result was the greatest storm of letters received in Congress in history. That ended the problem. The lobby was defeated.
This is why one candidate won't accept money from lobbyists. Find out more by clicking on my name. That CNN TV show is tonight.
Someone mentioned White Willow Bark. It is very good, Add Devils Claw and Yucca for a good combination. Willow Bark was used in ancient Greece. Yucca is used by Western Indians. Most herbs are best in combinations.