Is lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 65 points –

I buy these things but I wonder if they are truly pharmacologically-active and not just bullshit. Discuss

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But thousands of years of use in practice, so that says something.

Could be placebo

Quacks always forget that for thousands of years we died to stupid bullshit, all the time.

Modern medicine is a big reason we have 8 billion people now, instead of a few million.

Agriculture and penicillin are largely responsible for the population boom.