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Ayurvedic woes raise new questions about drug agency oversight
Re: Ayurvedic woes raise new questions about drug agency oversight -- Posted by Kshatriya on 10-08-04 16:11
bdixit wrote in message news:<41654B65.95111123@pitt.edu>...
> Thanks a lot. I think there is an urgent need for people who believe
> in evidence based medicine to bring to the attention of patients and the
> physicians problems that are being created by importing Ayurvedic,
> Chinese and other type of herbal medicines that are manufactured without
> quality control and without checking them for the presence of toxic
> ingredients, and without scientific proof that they are actually
> effective therapeutic agents. The traditional methods off manufacturing
> these medicines have not changed in which soil, utensils containing
> lead, cow's urine etc. are used in the manufacturing processes.
> Unfortunately, in USA these herbal medicines are not under the
> jurisdiction of FDA, and at least some of the politicians are reluctant
> to get involved in brining these medicines under the control of FDA
> because their vested interest, and FDA aa a monitoring agency is under
> funded and not equipped to conduct such a surveillance. ....BND
Fine , then please change the alert to apply to ALL Herbal medicines
and not only Ayurveda. There is no point in singling out only Ayurveda
when ALL herbal medicines are suspect isn't it ?
Thank you for acknowledging in one of the other threads that some
Ayurvedic medicines like Ashwagandhadi and guggul are very effective
in treating Rheumatic Arthritis etc.
Also , instead of condemning ALL forms of lead or heavy metals as
poisonous , some more research needs to be done to understand if
certain heavy metal compounds when mixed with certain other molecules
, can actually be beneficial in trace amounts.
Re: Ayurvedic woes raise new questions about drug agency oversight -- Posted by Balwant Dixit on 10-10-04 06:56
You are right in saying that ALL herbal medicinal preparations from
India, China and other counties, and preparations called Nutritional
Supplements, should also be examined for effectiveness as well as for
their "toxic" their contents. Since a few recent reports had appeared,
through the warnings given by the Centers for the Diseases Control, on a
number of cases in USA of heavy metal toxicity in human patients caused
by the use of Ayurvedic medications for the treatment of Arthritis I
commented on the Ayurvedic medications imported in USA. In my studies
guggul and other Ayurvedic preparations were found to be ineffective in
the treatment of experimental "joint inflammations" as well as in
patients. Usefulness of Ashwagandha in arthritis has also not ben
documented, but strongly suggested.......Balwant Dixit
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