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An Associated Press article about the placebo effect, particularly as it relates to natural or alternative treatments, is showing up in newspapers and other media across the country this week. The article, by AP writter Marilynn Marchione, although a tad one-sided, is not the problem. Wha...
hi the advertisements by big drug companies for there products and the marketing of them is bordering on illegal the money they spend in inducments one way or another is ignored by authorities just take alook at the suicide list and see how many of these poor creatures were on mind bending drugs prior to there deaths
do natural products kill you i dont think so
Yes, "buyer beware" should go on both sides of this question: A lot of the drugs that solve one problem create another one - sometimes worse than the first! I've gotten tired of being offered osteoporosis drugs when I only have osteopenia so far, and I have a lot of other issues and meds. Maybe we should bring up the "polypharmacy" problem.... duh! Or all the "idiopathic" diagnoses!
I couldn't do what I'm doing without the high-tech RA drugs (Enbrel for me), however, I also benefit from acupuncture, massage, herbal supplements, etc. and have they forgotten that a lot of the current drugs came from "old-time" remedies from plants? Duh! Aspirin.... camphor, eucalyptus, .... guaifenesin...Taxol all from plants, before they were drugs! And some of us are better at tolerating LOW doses and getting better slowly, than being overwhelmed (sometimes injured) by highly purified compounds without the adjunct compounds that might work with them from plants. For instance, you can drink green tea - or you can buy "green tea extract" or maybe even eventually EGCG (the active compound in green tea, less in black tea). MORE is NOT always BETTER!