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Adaptogen
Against allopathy Alternative medicine |
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Clinically unproven |
Woo-meisters |
An adaptogen is a magic herb that has the "ability to balance endocrine hormones"[1] (whatever that means). They can separate the gullible from some cash they could use to buy something useful, like coffin nails, by exercising a claimed: "normalizing influence on physiology, irrespective of the direction of change from physiological norms caused by the stressor" over them.