Human Placenta is Not a Nutritional Supplement

Placenta hominis, generally substituted with canine or porcine placenta today, is a traditional source of hormones, amino acids and enzymes. These include human gonadopin, oxytoncin, prolactin, TSH and sex hormones. Oral administration of 6.6 g/kg iin mice is associated with increased immunity and elevated IgM count. Human studies confirm its utility in chronic tracheitis (IM), bronchial asthma and lung cancer. It is traditionally used for youngsters with inadequate sex organ development, postpartum debility, to alleviate atrophy of reproductive organs, for insufficient lactation, for chronic dyspnea and to treat weak patients with chronic illness with fatigue, anorexia, weight loss and shortness of breath.

See Chen and Chen, Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology or Bensky's Oriental Materia Medica.

Of course categorizing Chinese medicinals as supplements is totally another story...

Karen,

I also hear that chewing placenta is excellent for the gums and for fighting gingivitis. Of course, being a Chinese medicinal, it also is known by the wisest of Far East doctors to cure pancreatic cancer and Type 1 diabetes. Actually, here, I'll provide some blanks for anyone reading, and they can fill them in with whatever diseases they want cured:

Placenta, whether chewed or not, can help with ____ and ____, and is best with capers for _____ and _______.

Bruder,

You must be a medical expert as your snarky comments show your extreme wisdom. After all, 3000 years of Chinese Medicine AND modern research to back it up MUST be wrong and is worth laughing at! Chinese Medicine is the origin of most Western medicine, and many Western products contain placenta as well. Do your research before making fun of something that you obviously know nothing about.

I wonder why in 3,000 years of "Chinese Medicine" the practicing peasants did not come up with a single antibiotic. Maybe the secret is in scientific methodology, a concept not really known to "Chinese Medicine".

Well since you can cure MRSA with herbs, and there are plenty of antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal herbal medicines, some of which interfere with the MDR efflux pumps of the bacteria, thus preventing resistance, Chinese medicine doesn't come off so badly.

Western medicine is responsible for the development of superbugs that are antibiotic resistant. If it had continued to use herbs together with antibiotics and only used them when necessary, we wouldn't be in this fix.

Karen:

The person who wants to fly to the Moon might want to learn some physics, etc, to figure out how to do it. The uneducated one will say that he is going to blow up a balloon and will fly off, without realizing about such things as escape velocity. Talking to you is like talking to that balloon guy: not really interesting.

The first antibiotic was penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. 3000 years of "Chinese Medicine" were unproductive, in that regard. The reason is in scientific methodology that he used, a concept not really known (and likely will never be known) to you, or to "Chinese Medicine".