人體對天然草本藥和化學合成藥的吸收到底有什麽不同？

這是個很大話題，曾有幾位網友的貼子可以借鑒。想要多了解，建議讀 Whole：Rethinking the Science of Nutrition。

這本書能讓你明白為什麽大部分西藥（尤其是治療慢性病類）為什麽不能長期服用？而有的草本藥看似有效成份不多但對疾病卻有很好療效。

這本書還能讓人了解現行的所謂科學分析方法為什麽不適用於分析草本藥？為什麽經過千辛萬苦耗資巨大的被所謂科學驗證了西藥還能頻頻因為其副作用被淘汰？

以上內容在書  Whole 的第一部分，而下麵的節選是關於書的第二、第三部份。

Part  II looks at the reason it's so hard for so many not to just accept, but even notice, the health implications of this research: the mental prison, or paradigm, in which Western science and medicine operate , which makes it impossible to see obvious facts lies outside it. For many reasons ,we now operate under a paradigm that looks for truth only in the smallest details, while entirely ignoring the big picture. The popular expression "can't see the forest for the trees"make the point well ,except that there's much more at stake here than just trees and forests. Morden science is so detail obessed that we can't see the forest for the vascular cambium and secondary pholem and so on. There's nothing wrong with looking at the details( I spent most of my reaserch career doing just that); the trouble occurs when we start denying that there is a big picture,and stubbornly insist that the narrow we see, heavily laden with our own biases and experience, is all that is.

The fancy word for this obsession with minutiae is reductionism. And reductionism comes with its own seductive logic, so that people laboring under its spell can't see that there's another way to look at the world. To reductionist, all other worldviews are unscientific, superstitious, sloppy, and not worthy of attention. All evidence gathered by non-reductionist means-presuming that reaserch can get funding in the first place-is ignored or suppressed.

Part III looks at the other side of this equation : the econnomic forces that reinforce and exploit this paradigm for their own self - interest as they chase financial success. These forces completely manipulated the public conversation about health and nutrition to suit their bottom line. We'll look at the many ways money affects thousands of small decisions that add up to a big impact on what you, the public, hear(and don't hear)and thus believe about health and nutrition.

節選自Whole-Rethinking the Science of Nuturition Introduction