All Posts Tagged With: "pharmaceutical"

Linda’s comment:  Amazing isn’t it that a group of doctors would embarrass themselves so tragically by the many mistakes they have made regarding Herb-Drug Interactions in Journal of the American College of Cardiology? They expect us to respect their avenues of treatment plans with using such poor judgement on making statements like they did with this article. 
This is why I preach to all of you to do research if you are not sure about taking an herb with a pharmaceutical.  Yes of course there are herbs that will react differently when taking pharmaceutical drugs.  However, there are times it can compliment one to the other.  People who are on Chemotherapy/Radiation can and do take the “organic” Agaricus Mushroom from Brazil.  In fact we have seen many cancer patients on chemo respond more quickly when taking this Brazil mushroom.  Mushrooms are not mushrooms are not mushrooms AND you need to make sure what country the mushroom came from.  Most mushrooms come from China and/or Japan and these do NOT have the potency that the mushroom from Brazil has.  This is just one example of how pharmaceuticals can work with a choice of treatment which is stepping outside of the box. 
 
Know your products.
 
Regards,
Linda or Angel

Full article: http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=10401.0&dlv_id=31941

Excerpt:

 (Austin, TX) At least several times per year an article is published in a medical journal that purports to provide health professionals and the public with useful information on the safety of herbs and herbal dietary supplements. Instead, what sometimes occurs is an article written by people with apparently little to no expertise in the subject area of herbal medicine and medicinal plant research and likewise apparently peer reviewed—if peer reviewed at all—by reviewers with little botanical knowledge or expertise. Yesterday, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology published such an article.¹

This particular article has so many flaws and errors that it is difficult to know where to begin to critically review it.

 

Full article: http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n02.shtml

Excerpt:

How To Destroy Confidence In Vitamins When You Do Not Have The Facts

(OMNS, January 11, 2010) “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this year’s annual meeting of the World Headquarters Of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators, and Reporters (WHOPPER).

“Let us get right to the point. Many of our members and affiliates have complained about what is, for us, an alarming and dangerous segment of health care: so-called ‘orthomolecular medicine.’ We wish to assure you, although this therapeutic approach is, unfortunately, very effective in preventing and treating disease, that we will make sure the public will never learn of it. We can say this with considerable confidence, since for over 50 years we have managed to keep virtually all psychiatrists from using niacin to treat schizophrenia; we have kept cardiologists from prescribing vitamin E and co enzyme Q10 for heart disease; and we have kept general practitioners from prescribing vitamin C for viral illnesses.

“Yes, it has really been a triumphant half-century. How did we do it? It is really quite easy. Here is a summary for those of you that may have missed the last WHOPPER meeting.

Linda’s comment: “Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.”  This quote is so very true…how dare they censor information that can and does save lived.  Follow the money.  More and more folks are turning to the Internet today to find answers for their health woes.  They don’t trust doctors with their treatment plans,  Why? Because they are not getting well or have been misdiagnosed.  I wonder how much money Medline receives from the pharmaceutical industry to censor alternative medicine articles?  If they are going to use my tax dollars then they need to put alternative medicine on medline, medscape, etc., etc., etc.

Regards,

Linda or Angel

Excerpt:

Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are “good” medical journals, and that there are “naughty” medical journals? Continued