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This Spice Combo Could Slash Inflammation Hundreds of Times More Effectively

msuniverse2026: Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.

krior: Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.

aappleby: The article title is super misleading - this is about measurements of inflammatory markers in vitro and explicitly does not generalize to food intake.

hyperhello: Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?

aappleby: No, the article title is misleading. This is in-vitro research only.

msuniverse2026: and yet it moves :^)

halflife: I once sat next to a mint plant and it cured my cold, the farther I sat the better I felt. Obviously diluted mint particles in the air cured me.

roughly: This is one of the things that’s deeply challenging for biology and biochemistry - it’s extremely resistant to the sort of reductionism that works so well for other fields. It’s rare to find a single compound, a single species, or a single pathway that’s responsible enough for an effect to show up in studies of the sort of power that one can muster without a ton of time and money, and as soon as you try to capture synergistic effects, you hit a combinatorial wall quickly. In microbiology, for instance, colonies of different bacterial species are the norm, not the exception, and metabolic pathways that span multiple species are common to the point that trying to isolate a given species’ contribution can miss the effect entirely.

the_real_cher: How was your chakra alignment? That may have contributed to your recovery.

the_real_cher: Hopefully AI can help us parse some of these massive data sets and interactions.

lapetitejort: Can you give an example of a well-known homeopathic and/or folk remedy that has been adopted into regular medicine, maybe in the last 20-50 years?

rkomorn: I think the closest one ("but no cigar") might be oscillococcinum, but its popularity isn't due to doctors recommending it (because they don't, by and large).

lapetitejort: We must eradicate mint plants. Over time the dilution of mint particles in the air will become so small that all diseases will go extinct

lapetitejort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum> There is no compelling scientific evidence that Oscillococcinum has any effect beyond placebo.Does not sound promising

dylan604: It is funny how that is the thing people turn to rather than just eating food. Let me eat junk and be happy while taking supplements.

IncreasePosts: What part of their post indicates they eat junk? Maybe they just don't want to have spicy minty meals every day

hyperhello: I don’t just eat junk, but it’s hard to experiment with a whole dietary change when you have sporadic inflammation. I guess that’s why we do scientific studies, right?

Den_VR: > metabolic pathways that span multiple species are common to the point that trying to isolate a given species’ contribution can miss the effect entirely.What does this mean?

jareklupinski: chase it with a shot of espresso for 1000x increase

IncreasePosts: Sorry to pry, but since you're here, what are the symptoms of sporadic inflammation? Any clues what causes it?