-------------Original message----------------- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:07:14 -0700 From: "Dick Rochon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: CS>Fed handling of dietary supplement Ephedra
Ephedra supplements have caused less than 25 reported deaths, ever! Aspirin causes hundreds, or more, every year. The Pharm industry is using this to get the FDA to put more controls on the supplements and herbals that seriously cut into their profits. The aim, of course, is to get all herbal and supplement products off the market, and only be available by prescription, in small doses. This has been done in Australia and European countries. If it happens here you can kiss goodbye your option to "cure" disease with alternative means. No more Linus Pauling therapy with Vitamin C and common amino acids that cured patients with terminal cancer and cardio vascular disease that needed heart bypass operations. No more Graviola, saw palmetto or Lycopene to cure prostate cancer. No more niacin to reduce cholestrol without statin drugs with dangerous side effects. Etc., etc. etc. Dick ------------------------------- Right on, Dick! Ephedra gets a bad rap but in most cases I have heard of it was being abused or overdosed on. My SIL gave me an article in News and World Report(??) about herbs killing people, and claimed 105 people died in a year, mostly from Ephedra, I would guess, but my rebuttal was to send her a web article stating that NSAIDS (Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) like aspirin and Tylenol killed 68,000 in one year and hospitalized 200,000 people, because of causing bleeding ulcers. I'll take herbs any day, and don't want the FDA telling me what to take or limiting my choices. Nancy -- 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]>
