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du magst es ja immer mal wieder den Term Schlangenöl als Spaß- und facepalm Aufhänger zu verwenden. Ich bin gerade in einem Buch über folgenden Absatz gestolpert:Na sowas! So ein Übel, ich tue also den Handauflegern Unrecht, wenn ich ihre Waren mit Schlangenöl vergleiche, denn Schlangenöl hilft tatsächlich nachweislich! (Danke, Ralf)"[…] Dr. Udo Erasmus recently has investigated the origin of the derisory term snake-oil (Erasmus 1993). He found that snake-oil was a traditional Chinese treatment, introduced to the United States by Chinese labourers laying the early railway lines. They persuaded the fellow workers to use snake-oil, to reduce inflammation and arthritic pain. Rubbing snake-oil into the skin was said to bring symptomatic relief. The sellers of patent medicines saw the use of snake-oil as a threat and disparaged the use of this treatment, to the extent that snake-oil continues to have a bad name to the present day.
In 1989, a Californian physician, Dr. Richard Kunin, investigated the properties of oil from the Chinese water snake (Kunin 1989). This snake-oil, used in Chinese medicine, was found to contain the highest proportion of omega-3 fatty acids in a natural oil (20%). Since omega-3 fatty acids are potent inhibitors of inflammation, the is every reason to suppose that snake-oil was effective. The term snake-oil actually refers to the use of a now established anti-inflammatory substance, in a treatment suppressed for financial gain."
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Erasmus, U. (1993): Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill. Alive Books, Canada.
Kunin, R.A. (1989): Snake oil. West J. Med, 151(2), 208.