Western conventional medicine and Western nutritional science have grown out of the same sciences, namely the extremely fruitful modern natural sciences, as founded by thinkers such as Newton, Descartes etc.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are still partly based on their views today. In some parts they are useless and have had to be replaced by other replaced by other approaches, for example when it came to utilising nuclear power or building a quantum computer, but on the whole they are still quite passably useful. useful.
Prof Manfred Porkert has described the "old" sciences as as causal-analytical and wanted to express that they, for example in the field of chemistry, for example, endeavoured to find the smallest particles that could that cause the effect of a whole. They thus discovered atoms and molecules were discovered and modern biology and medicine set about to divide nature into these, to sort them according to size, relationship and function, according to size, relationship and function. For example, it took food, for example, and fragmented it, and mainly found substances that they called substances, which she labelled as sugars, as well as fats and proteins (proteins). Finally, she found traces of other substances that did not these three heavyweight categories and labelled them as trace elements and called them trace elements and some substances vitamins because vitamins, because it turned out that these were necessary for life (Vita), although they only a very small part of the whole in terms of quantity.
This simple view of the world is extremely practical! One can can now go about building what nature needs from these very few building blocks. to build what nature needs. For example, you can create a nutrient solution from the simplest building blocks and produce a lot of food produce a lot of food, rationally and cheaply, for example hors sol tomatoes or battery chickens. You can also feed people according to this formula and let them orbit around in space for months. It has huge advantages!
Anyone who thinks in these simple categories will have difficulty to understand why there are still people who don't just take a mixed drink drink that contains all the building blocks and why, instead of taking a vitamin C effervescent tablet instead of lemons or other vitamin C containing fruit, berries or vegetables.
Unfortunately, this kind of thinking is still widely propagated because profits beckon for manufacturers of a large proportion of our food. of our food. Fortunately, however, ever larger circles of scientists have broadened their horizons and recognise that we still know very little about many things. For example, we know that plant is a factory in which not only one main main ingredient (sometimes the main active ingredient) and also contains substances that are present in smaller quantities, but that there are that there are thousands of substances and that we do not know about most of them because the fact that our measuring devices are unable to detect them due to their not able to detect them or we do not even expect to find them not expect to find them, and therefore do not even think of looking for them. not even have a clue as to their identity, let alone their function. about function.
It is said that an experiment was once carried out in which researchers extracted an entire railway carriage full of lettuce and and saw what they could find. The intention was clear: the sheer the sheer quantity of lettuce, it should be possible to use the measuring instruments to finally find a sufficient quantity of ingredients using the measuring instruments, that could now be detected. And the researchers found something surprising, namely thousands of natural substances that they had not expected. They found almost everything that was known. Imagine that imagine that: Even lettuce contains a few molecules of atropine, which we normally look for in belladonna. we usually look for in belladonna.
But back to the Hors-sol experiment: even Hors-sol tomatoes produce many thousands of substances, even if they are only fed a nutrient nutrient solution. Nevertheless, differences in the composition composition and quantity of the individual substances. Some are obvious and easy to taste: Hors-sol tomatoes taste like nothing. Lamb's lettuce from the plastic tunnel does not have the strong flavour flavour that the plant develops when it has survived a whole winter in the open field winter in the open field and harvested in spring. So nobody will deny that there are qualitative differences in this respect. differences exist in this respect. For a good wine to be produced, many factors have to be right many factors have to be right: The grape variety, the location, the soil, the sunlight sunlight, the time of harvest, the processing, the storage, etc. etc. It would never occur to anyone to mix grape extract with a little alcohol. alcohol.
The professor emeritus of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry Dr Kurt Hostettmann, professor emeritus of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry at the University of Geneva the ingredients of plants, said in an interview in autumn 2009 in an interview that only about 10% of the 350,000 plant species existing 350,000 plant species have been studied in any depth and that each plant contains that each plant contains several thousand different molecules and that we have actually found almost nothing so far.
Fructus Lycii
Of course, there are more useful sources of vitamin C than goji berries (Fructus Lycii - Gou Qi Zi). From an ecological point of view buy local fruit and vegetables. And even if Fructus Lycii is only marketed by some clever businessmen as a source of vitamin C as a source of vitamin C, there is more to the fruit than just this this substance. So you can buy it, because we buy a lot more from far away: entire cars from Japan, computers from China, oil, petrol and gas from China, oil, petrol and gas from all over the world, clothes made from fabrics that are sewn together in faraway countries, made from materials that have also travelled also travelled halfway around the world. Or would it occur to anyone to stop wearing cotton? wearing cotton?
Every product we consume harbours a certain problem. Is Fructus Lycii collected in the wild and are the stocks endangered as a result? endangered or does it come from cultivation and is it not a plant that is threatened with extinction? Is cultivation not at the expense of other damage (water consumption, monocultures, pesticides). Does the local population population at the place of production come under pressure if the West suddenly goji berries? Will local people still be able to afford the fruit? afford the fruit? Will they have to make do with the inferior quality because the West West buys the good ones? Is the trade socially acceptable?
Fructus Lycii is not known as a problem case. Admittedly admittedly cannot be said of all Chinese herbs, but efforts are being but work is being done to constantly improve the situation.
Fructus Lycii contains alkaloids, carotenoids, coumarins, organic acids (including vitamin C)
acids (including vitamin C), amino acids, and thousands of other substances
from many substance classes. A diligent person wrote to us years ago
some of the most important substances of each Chinese plant in a
file. Here is her (uncorrected) entry on Fructus Lycii:
atropine, hyoscyamine, zeaxanthin, physalien, cryptoxanthin, scopoletin, asparitc acid, proline, alanine, leucine, phenylalanine, serine, glycine, glutamic acid, cysteine, lysine, arginine, isoleucine, threonine, histidine, tyrosine, tryptophan, methionine, betaine, valine, glutamine, asparagine, safranal, beta-ionone, 3-hydroxy-beta-ionone, 1,2-dehydro-alpha-cyperene, solavetivone, carotene, thiamine, riboflavine, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, cholesterol, cholest-7-enol, campesterol, 24-methylenecholesterol, 28-isofucosterol, stigmasterol, beta-sitosterol, 24-methylcholesta-5,24-dienol, 24-ethylcholesta-5,24-dienol, cholestanol, 24-methylcholestanol, 24-ethylcholestanol, 24-ethylcholest-22-enol, 31-norcycloartanol, 31-norcycloartenol, cycloeucalenol, 31-norlanost-8-enol, 31-norlanosterol, obtusifoliol, 4alpha,14alpha,24-trimethylcholesta-8,24-dienol, 24-methyl-31-norlanost-9(11)-enol, 4alpha-methylcholest-8-enol, 4-methylcholest-7-enol, 24-ethyl lophenol, 24-methyllophenol, gramisterol, citrostadienol, 4alpha,24-dimethylcholesta-7,24-dienol, 4alpha-methyl-24-ethylcholesta-7,24-dienol, lanost-8-enol, cycloartanol, cycloartenol, lanosterol, beta-amyrin, lupeol, 24-methylenelanost-8-enol, 24-methylenecycloartanol, taurine, gamma-aminobutanoic acid
Attentive readers will not have missed the fact that Fructus Lycii contains substances from classes of substances that are well known to us and that and which either delight or perplex us: Vitamin C is just one of these substances. In small quantities, Frucuts Lycii, which belongs to the family of the nightshade family, contains the alkaloids atropine and alkaloids atropine and hyoscyamine. Taurine can also be found on the list of the ingredients of Fructus Lycii. The amount of these berries would have to be taken to reach the content of a can of Red Bull, is beyond my knowledge.
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The benefits of Fructus Lycii are difficult to judge from the ingredients. TCM, on the other hand, thanks to its completely different the fruit much more comprehensively thanks to its completely different epistemological background qualify the fruit much more comprehensively:
Fructus Lycii is assigned to the functional circuits of liver, lung and kidney and it increases the yin of the kidney, lung and the xue (blood) of the liver. of the liver and incidentally it also has a mild kidney yang toning effect. These few words provide a qualification which, if explained at length, would fill entire books. would fill entire books. TCM specialists have a lot to say about these terms. tell a lot. Laymen may remember that Fructus Lycii is used alone or in combination combination with other Chinese plants when it comes to the treatment of treatment of symptom complexes, so-called patterns, which manifest themselves in the following symptoms the following symptoms:
Backache, impotence, thirst, flank pain, dry mouth, bitter taste in the mouth, acid regurgitation, sweating during the day or at night, visual disturbances, insomnia, dizziness, tinnitus, headaches, cough.
Can all this be treated with vitamin C? According to Linus Pauling, probably yes ...
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