Guest guest Posted July 13, 2001 Report Share Posted July 13, 2001 Jim, Sorry to interject so late, but a few days ago you and Todd were having a discussion regarding the " emergent " process that occurs with herbal formulas. You said " herbal formulas are not the sum of their constituents. A formula demonstrates an emergent process or capacity not predicted by the sum of its constituent components. Emergence is a central concept of complexity theory. " I agree with you completely. The question this raises for me is- does this apply only to formulas that have been decocted together? Many people I know these days put together " formulas " of individually extracted herbs (either in liquid or granular format). Many of these people claim relatively high success rates. I have always felt that formulas of herbs decocted together create an emergent template based on the pharmacological law of synergy. These formulas created from herbs that have been decocted or extracted alone seem to me to not achieve this level of synergy. What level of emergence does this method achieve? Kip Roseman --- Joseph Roseman --- kipr0823 --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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