Hi Diane, Actually it is not a bad idea to tell the doctor what herbs you are taking. Some are contraindicated with certain drugs. Hopefully, the doc would be in agreement with complimentary medicine. The herbalist should also know what is contraindicated...I know in TX Chinese Herbalists/acupuncturists have to pass a Nat'l herb exam to practice. And, the required schooling includes quite abit of Western Med. including Pharmacology. It is the herbalist's butt they'll go after if something goes wrong with contraindications, not the MD's. Personally, I wouldn't go to a Dr. that didn't agree with complimentary medicine. I have no insurance so I can choose freely. I wonder if your friend's vet was able to tell her why no CS....did she question this? I have a vet who believes in complimentary med.... and, actually, recently gave me a kitten to care for hoping something in the alt-med world could save it...alas, no. Kit PS. It is interesting that Chinese med. has a long history of using silver and gold in cures. A Chinese doc told me of his wife boiling a gold necklace and giving the water to their daughter.
At 11:57 AM 12/28/02 -0600, you wrote: >Kit, > >Do you have to tell the doctors what herbs you take? I wouldn't like a >doctor telling me I couldn't take them when I know they help. (including >CS) I have a friend who was giving her cat some CS and the vet told her >to quit giving it to him. I said how could it hurt him to take it? But >she quit and as far as I know she hasn't started giving it to him again. > >Diane > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
