Have any western pharmaceutical companies been working with the traditional South African healers to “discover” new drugs?
Great interest and research is currently being done by both American and South African companies to discover new drugs. The potential to make a new discovery is fantastic, as our plant species diversity is very large. A lot of the work done is secretive, due to the high research costs and potential earnings. The work is further complicated by the fact that remedies are seldom single plants, but a concoction of a number of plants. The chemical compounds formed are complex and time consuming to break down. Danny Lenferna Science Safari, November 1996 The people we saw on the show practicing Therapeutic Touch seem to really believe in what they’re doing and can describe physical sensations pretty clearly. Do you really think that these people might have certain “powers,” or are they all just faking it? I think that they were probably sincere about being able to feel something, but my experiment did not show evidence that the “human energy field” exists. When I was doing my test, I got the
