Funding Research

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Bob,

 

It's understandable that without sufficient return on their

investment, herb companies won't fund research, schools won't teach

Chinese, and publishers won't include the characters in their

translations.

 

But what about the idea of a clearing house or database that

includes all the herbal research?

 

Or publishing the characters for a translation on the internet---or

an eBook with both?

 

I would be willing to pay extra or for those kinds of

things.

 

 

Jim Ramholz

 

 

 

, " Robert L. Felt " <bob@p...> wrote:

> All,

>

> > I agree with you. Follow the money. The herb companies will

> > immeasurably and directly benefit financially from this type

of

> > research. They should LEAD this initiative; it is part of

their cost of

> > doing business.

>

> Well, not that they shouldn't but the odds might not good.

Several of the

> producers that I have interviewed, mostly in Japan, have decided

that

> funding research will cost them sales. Since in East Asia these

products are

> now legal in their makers markets, they have nothing to gain and

everything

> to lose. I have not followed this closely but I believe that the

largest of the

> Japanese pharmaceutical concerns, Tsumra, which has a large kampo

> product line that is sold over the counter, has funded only one

kampo RCT.

>

> Bob

>

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