{"id":67490,"date":"2026-10-05T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67490"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:03:11","slug":"can-a-spice-rival-a-drug-10-head-to-head-trials-put-it-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67490","title":{"rendered":"Can a Spice Rival a Drug? 10 Head-to-Head Trials Put It to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spice<\/p>\n

Ten head-to-head clinical trials \u2014 pulled from the GreenMedInfo archive \u2014 in which honey, turmeric, saffron, ginger and a handful of other kitchen staples matched or outperformed prescription medications. Each one links to the full research write-up.<\/em><\/h4>\n

For nearly two decades, GreenMedInfo<\/a> has done one thing most health publishers never bother with: we go into the National Library of Medicine and pull out the studies where researchers put a natural substance directly against a drug<\/strong> \u2014 same condition, same patients, same scoring \u2014 and then publish what they found.<\/p>\n

Those studies exist. There are thousands of them. They just don\u2019t get press releases, because nobody holds a patent on honey.<\/p>\n

Below are ten of the most striking. Every one is a human trial. Every one is indexed in our database. And every one links to the long-form article where you can read the methodology, the numbers and the citations for yourself.<\/p>\n

A word before we start: this is research information<\/em>, not medical advice. Several of these trials are small. Some are single studies that have not been replicated. I have flagged which ones have the strongest designs. Read them, bring them to your practitioner, and decide for yourself. That is the entire point of having the archive.<\/p>\n

Finish reading:\u00a0https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/sayerji\/p\/they-compared-the-spice-to-the-drug<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten head-to-head clinical trials \u2014 pulled from the GreenMedInfo archive \u2014 in which honey, turmeric, saffron, ginger and a handful of other kitchen staples matched or outperformed prescription medications. Each one links to the full research write-up. For nearly two decades, GreenMedInfo has done one thing most health publishers never bother with: we go into … <\/p>\n

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