castor oil packs-real treatment or quackery?

INCHEM does seem to be a valid site with no commercial interests.

It appears to me that some people such as schrafinator derive great comfort for meticulous research and traditional protocols of established medicine, whereas others such as myself and purpledawn are willing to trust folk remedies when we see that they have passed the guinea pig test on other humans and that they have some basis for success.I say to each his own...if I screw up my health by listening to "quacks" or to people who didn't *shudder* pass the established bar of competency
then thats my own problem.Schrafinator, it seems that you want to start a crusade to make sure that people show proper respect to the system of educated research and pay proper homage to Doctors who have earned their stripes and to products that are officially condoned.I say that we should have the freedom to eat worms if we really want to and if it gives us even the comfort of a placebo.

So are you suggesting that there is no legitimacy to naturapaths?