Medicinal plants are been involved in hot arguments due to the fact that many people are returning back to traditional medicine in order to either cure or alleviate health and fitness problems.
“Natural doesn’t mean secure” is said often and this is true (lets think on curare and many other plant toxins). We, the medicinal plants supporters do not use this concept.
“Serious problems referring quality, security and efficacy of herbal products are been identified”. This is a health authorities regulation concern, it is not a problem of the plants.
“With medicinal herbs, what is in the label may not be in the product and the statements of their fantastic curative properties are very seldom proved”. What is written on labels is or should be regulated and scientific evidences about their properties are not rare, they have to be searched and read.
The subject becomes more complex when we talk about products elaborated with active principles extracted from medicinal plants or even with crude extracts. Here, as I say below, the responsibility belongs to health authorities.
One of major criticisms is that health authority controls are weaker than those for synthetic products. This shouldn’t be so, all medicines of equal category have to be controlled with the same rules. Surely there are bigger possibilities of illegal procedures with plant products but this is not a plants’ patrimony but a human being’s behavior.
Certainly medicinal plants usage with health authority controls and medical guidance is the best situation. A lot of health professionals prefer to shelter in the probable security of synthetic medicines.
Medicinal plants show up complex problems concerning their properties, when effects standardization is attempted, considering the important amount of active principles and their seasonal and individual variations.
Medicinal plants and synthetic medicines interaction is another criticism and a real problem, it is already known for many plants and should be studied for all plants to be used along with any other treatment. It could be say in the other way round as well. Profesionals should be aware of that.
“There are frequent cases of intoxicated people with herbal medicines”. There are frequent cases with synthetic products as well and quite serious too. Some of them involving thousands of persons and been discovered after many years of use. All products are prone to cause health problems by misuse.
In short, health regulations should be the same for all medicines and as far as for dried herbs sold as it, manufacture practices and label contents should be controlled. Medicinal plants have an enormous potential as one of the tools to help in health and fitness many problems that human beings have.
“Natural doesn’t mean secure” is said often and this is true (lets think on curare and many other plant toxins). We, the medicinal plants supporters do not use this concept.
“Serious problems referring quality, security and efficacy of herbal products are been identified”. This is a health authorities regulation concern, it is not a problem of the plants.
“With medicinal herbs, what is in the label may not be in the product and the statements of their fantastic curative properties are very seldom proved”. What is written on labels is or should be regulated and scientific evidences about their properties are not rare, they have to be searched and read.
The subject becomes more complex when we talk about products elaborated with active principles extracted from medicinal plants or even with crude extracts. Here, as I say below, the responsibility belongs to health authorities.
One of major criticisms is that health authority controls are weaker than those for synthetic products. This shouldn’t be so, all medicines of equal category have to be controlled with the same rules. Surely there are bigger possibilities of illegal procedures with plant products but this is not a plants’ patrimony but a human being’s behavior.
Certainly medicinal plants usage with health authority controls and medical guidance is the best situation. A lot of health professionals prefer to shelter in the probable security of synthetic medicines.
Medicinal plants show up complex problems concerning their properties, when effects standardization is attempted, considering the important amount of active principles and their seasonal and individual variations.
Medicinal plants and synthetic medicines interaction is another criticism and a real problem, it is already known for many plants and should be studied for all plants to be used along with any other treatment. It could be say in the other way round as well. Profesionals should be aware of that.
“There are frequent cases of intoxicated people with herbal medicines”. There are frequent cases with synthetic products as well and quite serious too. Some of them involving thousands of persons and been discovered after many years of use. All products are prone to cause health problems by misuse.
In short, health regulations should be the same for all medicines and as far as for dried herbs sold as it, manufacture practices and label contents should be controlled. Medicinal plants have an enormous potential as one of the tools to help in health and fitness many problems that human beings have.