View Single Post Old 11-17-2012, 11:05 AM   #43 Hall Of Fame
Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,978  1) you cite two human studies
and a rodent study. Neither human study has a placebo group.
This is generally considered unacceptable in studies of pain
control because both "active " medications may have placebo
effects that can be considerable in subjective scale studies
like these. We can't tell from these studies whether a placebo
would have caused the same degree of symptom relief. 2) both
studies are sponsored by drug companies; in fact, in one of them
the authors thank the drug company rep for design and data
analysis of the study!! What you need to know about drug
companies is that they reserve the right to publish or not
publish a study they pay for. So they may have commissioned 20
identical studies done by different groups, with 19 of them
being unpublished and showing no benefit and this published one
showing possible benefit. 3) in the rutin study the authors
point out that the enzyme is quickly metaboli