Homeopathic is a type of preparation from any number of sources such as herbs, minerals, body tissues, body fluids, etc. Homeopathic merely refers to the way the material is prepared and diluted.
Homeopathy is based on the law of similars. It's basic precept is that a substance that produces similar symptoms to the symptoms the patient exhibits as most predominant, will in infintesimal dilution stimulate the body at a subtle (energetic or virbratory if you will) level to correct the symptom. Therefore the herbs you mention could well be in the formula but as I said toxicity is a matter of dose. Additionally there is a measure called the Therapeutic Index that is the Therapeutic Dose divided by the dose that kills have of the test animals, the Lethal Dose 50. The closer to one the Therapeutic dose is the more toxic an agent is at this dose. A low Therapeutic Index indicates an agent with a large margin of safety. Garnet On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 18:02, Betsy Coffey wrote: > I posted to Steve about the flu ban and would like to > share this with Garnett and others on the silver > forum. I have been using olive leaf for ongoing > infection and was interested in Flu Ban thinking that > it may have something extra to offer in the way of an > anti-infective agent. Anytime i hear about a > supplement, I try to research it because I once took > something that was natural and it made me very ill. > So, I googled Flu Ban and found some ingredients > called Monkshood and Banewort. I then looked up these > ingredients on google and it said that they were > toxic. You can find the information on google if you > type in these words but I would be glad to post them > for you if you cannot find them.what I am puzzled > about now, is that Steve wrote back after I posted > this, something about this being a homopathic formula. > This sparked my interest because I was fairly sure > that monkshead and Banewort were herbs. So, I typed in > Flu Ban again and came up with some homopathic > ingredients called Belladona and Gelsemium. So now I > am beginning to wonder if there are two different > formulas. > Sorry if I confused anyone. > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
