Herbal supplements in US commonly have traces of contaminants

First off, herbals are not packaged and sold as medicine. They are sold as natural food suppliments; big, big difference.

Metoprolol label writes:WARNING: take with or immediately after food.It is very important that you take or use this exactly as directed. Do not skip doses or discontinue unless directed by your doctor.
May cause dizziness
may cause drowsiness. Alcohol may intensify this effect. Use care when operating a car or dangerous machines.Some non-prescription drugs may aggravate your condition. Read all labels carefully. If a warning appears, check with your doctor

Quick - without looking it up, tell me the brand name of the herbal supplements in your medicine cabinet.You can't, can you? If these companies are operating with essentially no brand recognition at all, how are you even going to remember to punish them with your pocketbook?

The efficacy of treatment, herbal or traditional, has to be assessed on the basis of double-blind trials. That's the only way to know if they really work. Anything else is just quackery.

You missed a biggie, Dogmafood. Add to your list over 700,000 annulal medical malpractice deaths, 150,000 to 200,000 being from prescribed drugs. (Where did you get your so low figure on prescribed drugs? I've seen figures as high as 350,000 but never anywhere near your low figure)

Bottom line: Hundreds of thousands can be either directly or indirectly attributed to marijuana usage.

What is good for the sheeple is bass akwards, so far as govmn't regulation and scrutiny goes.

crashfrog writes:........contaiminated herbs have to poison somebody, or the fascists win!

Dogmafood writes:My point was that alot of people die from regulated drugs. Regulations dont protect you as much as information does.

Dogmafood writes:Bottom line: Hundreds of thousands can be either directly or indirectly attributed to marijuana usage.Thats probably another thread but the regulation of mj has killed alot more people than the plant itself.

Dogmafood writes:I dont know that that is fair but you can protect yourself against it with information.

Buz writes:How can you protect yourself if you can't buy and sell freely the safe naturals because the producers are regulated out of business?

bluescat48 writes:Sthen how do I know if the herbal supplement will or will not interact with my hydrochlorothiazide (blood thinner) or my metoprolol tartrate (High Blood pressure medicine).On the side of the bottle of the seonsd medicine listed it statesMetoprolol label writes:
WARNING: take with or immediately after food.It is very important that you take or use this exactly as directed. Do not skip doses or discontinue unless directed by your doctor.
May cause dizziness
may cause drowsiness. Alcohol may intensify this effect. Use care when operating a car or dangerous machines.Some non-prescription drugs may aggravate your condition. Read all labels carefully. If a warning appears, check with your doctorA similar but different warning is on the other.Now what instructions are on the herbals?

WARNING: Consult your healthcare provider before use if you are pregnant, nursing or taking prescription medication, especially medication prescribed for heart/cardiovascular conditions.

How can you protect yourself if you can't buy and sell freely the safe naturals because the producers are regulated out of business?

jar writes:Where is there any evidence that producers would be regulated out of business?

This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA. It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosed with a fictitious disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals. FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine

Dr Jones writes:How do you know your naturals are safe without regulations governing their production and use?

Me? Like I say, after taking likely a ton or so over the decades, the only side effects have been good, enhancing whole body health. Why should I worry about safety when there's essentially no threat, being I take no pharms; not even aspirin.

That's ok, but essentially outlawing what we need; not ok.

returinator writes:I linked to an article about herbs for sale in US being commonly contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals.We're hearing about contaminated herbs, Buz.

I take it that you're trying to label folks who want less guvm't control of the herbals fascists.

Regulations dont protect you as much as information does.