ruthsimplicity wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Yet we do next to nothing to require research on safety and >>> effectiveness. And there is no standards of purity or strength. >>> >>> >> The supplement and herb industry will agree with you. They want >> standards too. They just don't want to give it over the pharmaceutical >> companies who will do a "pull the ladder up" to keep them out of the >> > game. > > > I think the supplement industry isn't very interested in doing the > research necessary to prove safety and effectiveness. It costs a lot > to do drug trials. Plus, there are no patents and thus no monopolies > available on things like cinnamon, cumin, licorice, etc. What the owners of one company told me is they would like to be sure the herbs they are buying are the real thing. Certified. This was a firm in India. A professor of ayurvedic medicine at Benares Hindu University told me that a lot of the remedies out the aren't quite what they're suppose to be, just a little bit of this and and little bit of that. They had to take the placards off the plants in their ayurvedic gardens because people would come in and steal planets.
Yup, ain't capitalism grand. Money is God.
