Posted on 12/21/2017 1:42:58 AM PST by vannrox
Alternative remedies like homeopathic treatments have become popular in recent years and now make up a $3 billion industry. But the Food and Drug Administration will begin scrutinizing products that could be dangerous to vulnerable populations.
Many homeopathic remedies are derived from plants and claim to treat everything from the common cold to serious diseases. But the FDA fears that these products can "bring little to no benefit in combating serious ailments, or worse — may cause significant and even irreparable harm because the products are poorly manufactured, or contain active ingredients that aren’t adequately tested or disclosed to patients," according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
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Thanks! My BP is normal, and I’m not on any meds. So, I will give it a try.
Why? When they market themselves as medicinals, make claims of treating or curing serious diseases and conditions, and may contain dangerous ingredients like belladonna at wildly varying strengths or ingredients not even listed on the label, they put people’s health and lives at risk. That’s exactly what the FDA should be overseeing.
Or think of it this way, when you buy a box of breakfast cereal, that cereal has been, processed, packaged and labeled under much higher standards than homeopathic remedies, which since 1988 have not had to meet any sort of standards.
I like homeopathic. I think it is part of America. FREEDOM. My ancestors were snake oil salesman, and one of his sons discovered new scientific ways to anesthetize. Let people take shark cartilage and drink apricot seeds, and if they want to do herbs, it probably works just as good as some of these toxic poisons coming out of labs.,
I take 1900 mg a day.
30-90 minutes before eating is most effective.
Let us know!
What are the dosages?
I do not believe this for a minute, because for decades now, the FDA, and now joined by the FTC, has wanted to explosively increase its power by regulating ALL products that may be consumed for health purposes.
I noticed in their statement they were using a bureaucratic trick, “that because .0001% is bad, we must regulate 100%.”
What makes matters worse is that the FDA is despised as being corrupt and in the pocket of big pharma, incompetent, using objectively bad science, and worst of all totally ignores dangerous public health threats that it should be taking care of.
Sadly, their efforts to grab more power have generally been thwarted by just one senator, Orrin Hatch.
But let me put this in real terms.
I have three doctors: a competent GP, a Rheumatologist MD, and a Rheumatologist DO. I also have a less common form of arthritis.
There are over 100 different kinds of arthritis, and over 200 different kinds of rheumatism. In different people they are responsive to a different litany of treatments unique to them. These treatments include some very harsh and dangerous pharma, any number of analgesics, lots and lots of OTC products, and even things like dietary changes and fruit juices.
As far as the GP is concerned, since she has a limited toolkit of pharma, about all she could recommend were analgesics and a referral to a rheumatologist. She cannot detect the disease with blood, urine or stool samples, or external examination. Nor could she treat it with other than pharma, no other means.
The rheumatologist MD is somewhat more flexible, but like other MDs is handicapped by his reliance on pharma. Granted he is using top notch, cutting edge pharma, it is still just a fraction of what is available.
I much prefer the rheumatologist DO. Whereas before I was distrustful of DOs, associating them with chiropractors and the like, this one is willing to experiment and is very pragmatic. His toolkit is much larger, and he will keep trying until he finds the best combination for a given patient.
For the FDA and FTC to slash and burn his toolkit, because what is in there is neither approved by their version of science, nor profitable to the pharma industry, would be tragic and quite literally crippling to a vast number of people suffering from complicated diseases like this.
Yes, we do need an FDA. But they need a major reformation.
What they do not need is a grand expansion of their authority and power, at least until they have been reformed.
Do you take it as a tablet?
Leave. Kratom. Alone.
Kratom is freeing heroin addicts from their cravings. I work with addicts in recovery. It works. Pharma wants to ban it.
In this article, it’s about further regulating homeopathic medical alternatives. It’s a huge gift to the pharmaceutical industry. It reduces competition and individual decision making.
What it will do is put more accountability on homeopathic OTC’s that contain dangerous ingredients or fail to meet basic safe manufacturing and labeling standards that would prevent as in the case of the teething tablets, wildly varying levels of a deadly poison – belladonna.
And I wouldn’t sing the praises of Orrin Hatch.
http://utahstories.com/2015/02/corporate-puppet-masters-and-orrin-hatch/
You have to understand that many of the very same evil pharmas you claim to hate have also gotten into the business of herbal and homeopathic remedies just because they are not FDA regulated, and they have a powerful lobby and politicians like Hatch and also Tom Harkin in their pockets.
I am not a woman. I have not had so much as a cold sine O educated myself in 2001. Yes. 2001. That after being regularly on antibiotics twice a year since a child for respiratory infections and inflammation.
I was by all appearance healthy and athletic. But plagued and run down. You wish like Obama to regulate me back into modern medicine. Modern medical care that i am forced to pay for but don’t use.
I have no problem with adults making their decisions on what some call medicine. But the abuse of children is a different story. The line must be drawn to protect the innocent too young to make their own decisions. I know several people that went to west Africa during the Ebola epidemic. They witnessed up close the alternative medicine in those countries. We dumped more than 2 billion tacxpayer dollars into stopping this deadly virus. We probably should allow the culling of the herd, especially in foreign nations.
Should we allow vehicles without workable brakes to drive on public highways? Or is it a favor to brake makers and the auto industry?
Last time I checked there is no law mandating the use of pharmaceuticals.
Don't need to. I take Turmeric, but I also turn my eggs black with pepper. I really love black pepper on most of my food. A lot!
Stopped having to take flonase and haven't gotten colds like I did every year prior to starting Turmeric. Plus it healed my tennis elbow whatever that thing was with the knee at the time.
Ah, you are aware Marvin that many pharmaceuticals were derived from plant sources, right? Tell me about the dose of active ingredient in a plant source and what that means, please.
I follow label directions.
It’s in soft capsules.
They don’t get that. Many pharmaceuticals have a plant origin, but who can tell what concentration of active ingredients exists in those plants. The dose differentiates the poison from the remedy. This simple dose concept seems to be void in the homeop believers. They simply do not get it. It’s a nature is always good thing and they can’t fathom the difference between a gentle breeze and a tornado. There is always a customer for snake oil.
What I’m referring to is that this is another attempt to regulate non-traditional medical choices. The goal of the pharmaceutical industry is to not let us get so much as a vitamin without it being regulated by them.
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