Dr Price puts forward the attractive idea of Vitamin S ( for salicylates).
Unless a pharmacolgist advises to the contrary, I am tempted to chew leaves and twigs of willows growing plentifully along the River Nene. In the old Empire (on which the Sun Never Set) - before Western Ideas overwhelmed the Native tradition - early in the morning on their constitutionals everyone, rich and poor, men, women and children, would chew astringent twigs of a spiny tree called Kikar, or of the bitter Neem tree.
A randomised controlled trial with a British arm along the Nene and an Indo-Pakistani arm in the cis-Attock and Trans-Sutlej area might be interesting. Now that the BMJ has an India Edition, your Indian editorial staff could advise?
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Dr Price puts forward the attractive idea of Vitamin S ( for salicylates).
Unless a pharmacolgist advises to the contrary, I am tempted to chew leaves and twigs of willows growing plentifully along the River Nene. In the old Empire (on which the Sun Never Set) - before Western Ideas overwhelmed the Native tradition - early in the morning on their constitutionals everyone, rich and poor, men, women and children, would chew astringent twigs of a spiny tree called Kikar, or of the bitter Neem tree.
A randomised controlled trial with a British arm along the Nene and an Indo-Pakistani arm in the cis-Attock and Trans-Sutlej area might be interesting. Now that the BMJ has an India Edition, your Indian editorial staff could advise?
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