Western Governments Want To Control Your Health. Directly Attacking Herbal Remedies.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

You are stupid! You do not know what's good for you! Your government loves you! They support you and know what's best for you!

Seriously. This is a load of #######.

Little by little, they take things away.

"oh you're being ridiculous, our government is just helping us. They would never do anything to control or harm us."

Wake. The. F. Up. It's all about control.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1382135/Herbal-medicines-banned-EU-directive-comes-force.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Both herbal remedy practitioners and manufacturers fear they could be forced out of business as a result.

Some of the most commonly used products were saved after the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley approved a plan for the Health Professions Council to establish a register of practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines.

However, many remedies were lost as it was only open to those who could afford the licensing process which costs between £80,000 to £120,000.

At least 50 herbs, including horny goat weed (so-called natural Viagra), hawthorn berry, used for angina pain, and wild yam will no longer be stocked in health food shops, says the British Herbal Medicine Association.

The 2004 EU directive demands that a traditional herbal medicinal product must be shown to have been in use for 30 years in the EU – or at 15 years in the EU and 15 years elsewhere – for it to be licensed.

The UK drug safety watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency, has issued more than a dozen alerts in the past two years, including a warning last month over a contaminated weight loss pill called Herbal Flos Lonicerae (Herbal Xenicol) due to concerns over possible side-effects.

Mr Lansley, in a written statement, said the Government wanted to ensure continuing access to unlicensed herbal medicines via a statutory register for practitioners ‘to meet individual patient needs’.

Acupuncture falls outside the EU directive and so remains unaffected.

Prince Charles, a long-standing supporter of complementary therapies, has voiced his support for formal regulation of herbal practitioners.

Up til now the industry has been covered by the 1968 Medicines Act. This was drawn up when only a small number of herbal remedies were available.

But recent studies show that at least six million Britons have used a herbal medicine in the past two years.

Professor George Lewith, professor of health research at Southampton University, said: ‘Evidence for the efficacy of herbal medicines is growing; they may offer cheap, safe and effective approaches for many common complaints.’

[Obama 2012 1,714]

err. top part of the article i left off...

Patients have lost access to hundreds of herbal medicines today, after European regulations came into force.

Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of popular products for 'mild' illness such as echinacea for colds and St John's Wort for depression have been banned.

For the first time traditional products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Maybe you should try some of the banned substances, whatever you're taking now isn't working.

[Fandango 1,439]

Maybe you should try some of the banned substances, whatever you're taking now isn't working.

ITT, he's said nothing wrong. I think this attack was unwarranted.

As to the article, I think that sucks. I'm a big believer in herbal treatments. Of course, they should be taken with care, and researched thoroughly before taking.

[TBoneTX 45,284]

I do believe, though, si man, that the wild yam sounds dangerous and that it should be domesticated, or at least heavily sedated, zzz man.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Paul, you really need to chill out

[Kathryn41 3,205]

post containing inappropriate comments has been removed. May I remind everyone that you can disagree with the contents of a post without making personal attacks against the poster.

[The Dude 206]

post containing inappropriate comments has been removed. May I remind everyone that you can disagree with the contents of a post without making personal attacks against the poster.

It doesn't help that the OP insults people in the first sentence of the first post, which is against the TOS too I might add....

[Kathryn41 3,205]

It doesn't help that the OP insults people in the first sentence of the first post, which is against the TOS too I might add....

Agreed - the introduction to the article was inflammatory and provocative and certainly contributed to the nature of the response. Unfortunately the only way to remove the provocative comments would be to remove the whole post as we cannot edit within a thread and that would remove the whole thread.

Edited May 3, 2011 by Kathryn41

[The Dude 206]

Agreed - the introduction to the article was inflammatory and provocative and certainly contributed to the nature of the response. Unfortunately the only way to remove the provocative comments would be to remove the whole post as we cannot edit within a thread and that would remove the whole thread.

I don't mean to be argumentative about this, but that is a poor standard. Paul does this sort of stunt in all his threads, and it is no wonder that they have a high rate of being shut down. It sets the tone of the thread, and when the introduction is an insult right from the beginning, you have nowhere to go, but downhill.

[Fandango 1,439]

I read it as sarcasm from a governmental perspective **shrug**