Also, there are many more drugs consumed than herbal remedies so it is to be expected that the figures for pharmaceuticals are higher. However, the enormous difference does suggest that adverse events are far more common with pharmaceuticals than herbal remedies. When serious side effects are triggered by herbal remedies it is often due to poor quality products, products containing newly discovered plant ingredients, or products that have been adulterated — including with pharmaceutical drugs.
For the public, buying herbal products that are regulated offers some assurance that the medicines are both safe and of acceptable quality. For instance, in the UK, traditional herbal remedies are manufactured to a high standard and include a patient information leaflet, which lists known side effects and, importantly, warns of possible interactions with pharmaceuticals, another cause of adverse reactions.
The makers of these products also have a legal obligation to monitor any adverse reactions and report them to the regulators. Another way to help avoid adverse reactions, especially when dealing with conditions that are not always suitable for self-treatment with over-the-counter drugs, is to visit a qualified herbalist.
The training and regulation of herbalists varies widely from country to country and without government regulation of these practitioners, it is difficult for the public to assess who is legitimate. However, voluntary regulation by professional associations does exist and is effective in many countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
This regulation helps to ensure that practitioners are appropriately educated and safe. Herbal medicines are relatively safe compared with pharmaceuticals provided that they are regulated products or that they are prescribed by herbal practitioners who are registered with an appropriate governing body.
But consumers need to be better informed about the dangers of obtaining herbs from unregulated sources if further cases of serious side effects are to be avoided. By one I mean just the endocrinologist…….. Though I hate to say it……. Thank you so much for bringing to this light. As you can tell I personally have been involved and am amazed at how messed up the system is currently. Totally agree. We need to get back to live how we were supposed to. Your medical practitioner is a GP — which means general practice.
They are also busy and with appointments lasting 10 to 15 minutes how can you get a true diagnosis? I think doctors are pushed for time and give out short fixes to move patients on to see the next. Also pharmaceutical companies are quick to send out the latest products and quite often a doctor will give you some drug that is new on the market to try.
I fail to see how in a 10 minute short interview with a patient you can get an overall feel of that person. Questions should be ask such as what is your lifestyle What exercise do you do. Are you getting enough sleep. And if the answer to these questions are not enough then the medical practitioners should be exploring options. I work at a university. My employer contributes a lot to my healthcare, but only traditional healthcare. My conventional PCP has told me that whatever I am doing, to keep doing it.
Most women she sees get less healthy as the age but I have gotten more healthy. I take zero pharmaceuticals. I see her once a year for about a half an hour.
I absolutely agree with everything you are saying. When I changed my diet about eight years ago to one that eliminates sugar except a little fruit, not much and includes many inflammation reducing foods, the change has been dramatic. I have an exercise practice and a meditation practice. But these are all new to me in the last eight years so even change later in life can have a dramatic effect.
I am You are absolutely on the right track. You are a beacon of truth. I am looking forward to your new book and I am glad you chose that cover. I finally took matters into my own hands and went to a functional medicine doctor. There were other things on the test that came back but I found this most interesting.
I contacted the CDC on them to see what they have to say. I realized this is health. Not sterile hospital corridors and a never-ending supply of morphine patches. Feeling the health energy in my hands was a major turning point. The way our healthcare system is set up right now has essentially turned our doctors into drug pushers. And recognizing the formative nature of medical school, pharmaceutical companies start early by targeting medical students, doling out free meals, textbooks, and even drug samples.
People are sicker than ever. And doctors are missing out on major opportunities to help people live healthy lives. Allopathy rose to prominence during World War I. Penicillin made this sustainable, and we ultimately won the war. But battlefield tactics belong on the battlefield.
In fact, allopathic medicine has done much more harm than good. Chronic disease , for instance, has risen sharply over the years.
The reason everyone is sick and dying is that doctors are looking at things through the narrow battlefield lens. If we want to start getting to the core of our current health crisis, doctors need to take a more vitalistic approach. Ancient forms of medicine up until the midth century were predicated on vitalism, or the idea is that life is governed by forces beyond the physical self. Vitalism recognizes that the spiritual, psychological, functional, and structural aspects of a live being are all interconnected and that to treat an individual you must treat all aspects, including environmental and external factors.
The notion of vitalism dates back to ancient Egypt when doctors figured out that the body functions best when all its components are brought into harmony. Ancients stressed the importance of a dynamic equilibrium between the anatomical systems, referred to as homeostasis. But by — when drugs and surgery took off — vitalism was essentially abandoned by Western science.
It is still very much alive, however, in the Eastern world.
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