The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
Some Herbal Remedies Could Be Dangerous (AP 12/14/2004) (link retired)
CHICAGO Dec 14, 2004 - Dangerous levels of lead, mercury and arsenic have been found in some herbal remedies from India that are sold in the United States, researchers are warning.
Levels high enough to cause poisoning were detected in 14 of 70 ayurvedic medicine products made in south Asia and bought in Boston-area stores, according to a study by Dr. Robert Saper and colleagues at Harvard Medical School. Saper is now at Boston University.
The world of western medicine is facing some lost income from the competition of herbal medicines and homeopathic medicines so here is one of their attacks of alternative medicine using the argument that products are tainted.
But, in spite of the frustrating lack of scientific method, alternative medicines sometimes get similar results as do the products of the pharmaceutical industry. (Small improvements over placebo effect, side-effects, people who do worse in some casesÉ)
Even homeopathic products (which have nothing in them and so are entirely placebo) get results that can be difficult to distinguish from the results of the pharmaceuticals.
With expectations like this from our current treatments, it is no wonder that people are following witch doctors.
This kind of nonsense will go on until there is a much higher standard for results and improvement of the various maladies. Once it becomes clear that no cure can occur without changing the level of stress in the nervous system for the better, and then expecting symptoms similar to drug withdrawal while the brain makes the adjustments to using new pathways under a new environment. Until this change in thinking occurs the same damage that is caused by pharmaceuticals will also be caused by the herbal and other remedies that get the limited benefits by using placebo and increased stress caused by a drug or substance that you have to keep taking for an improvement in one symptom at the expense of several other symptoms.
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