one more Complementary Medicine bites the dust.

How much money do we waste that could be spent to improve the public's health, that is diverted to useless nostrums, because of media attention to media stars without any science background. Now we find one more 'complementary medicine', Black Cohosh, supposedly used to treat postmenopausal symptoms has been found worthless. According to USAToday sales of black cohosh supplements soared after an NIH-sponsored study in 2002 reported that hormone therapy — the most effective treatment for menopause symptoms — raised users' risk of heart attacks, breast cancer, blood clots and stroke. U.S. black cohosh sales rose 26% from 2002 to 2003 to $15.7 million, according to the Natural Foods Merchandiser, a trade magazine.