[MPWG] herbal remedies associated with heart drugs

Thu Feb 4 09:39:46 CST 2010

Thank you thank you, Jean.

Which brings up a question for me after reading your thoughts.

Can someone out there please shed some light for me on a rumor I heard not
too long ago
about a pharmaceutical company (?) having purchased New Chapter. Yes, New
Chapter.
That wonderful grass roots company. Is it true? Not true?

I emailed New Chapter a couple weeks ago and have yet to hear back from them
on this.

OK. So lets say they did 'sell out' to big pharma.

Now what? Its the American way is it not? More is better. Growth is what
capitalism is all about. I was just having this conversation with my husband
this
a.m. So how do we as Americans be happy with what we have? Maintain /
sustain?
Accept less as more?

Am I ready to give up my house b/c I can't afford to live here or do I sell
out to someone that will enable me?

Its no different than what we're seeing here in New York. Farmers and or
land
owners selling out to Gas Co's for the other kind of green even though
they're
well aware that the land that feeds us is going to be fracked, poisoned and
cut in half.

Money talks. We know it. AMA, Pharmaceuticals, Corporate America know it
too.
Actually, isn't that why man becomes doctors. Our mothers told them 'go to
school, become
a doctor and make lots of money'.

But money, more is better, capitalism, fear, power over, are all effecting
herbs,
leeching out the health of our plants and trees.

Marguerite

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jean Giblette <hfg at capital.net> wrote:

> Many of our perception problems regarding medicinal plants are caused by
> the industrialization of medicine.  Within the past century or so, we have
> come to assume that medicine is (a) manufactured (b) from "raw materials,"
> (c) extracted from the earth, (d) by indigenous poor (i.e. rural) people,
> and (e) the more refinement added, the more "value" assigned.
>
> Each one of these assumptions is an artifact, now being challenged.  The
> establishment of Oriental Medicine in North America has helped us return to
> the full context of medicine, which definitely includes food.  Traditional
> Asian medicine, guided by sophisticated theoretical constructs including
> detailed models of human health, recorded contextual medicinal uses of
> one-quarter of their known plant species.  (Their temperate zone species are
> closely related to those in the other northern temperate regions.)  So
> --hello! -- it's not the biochemicals in the plants, it's the many elaborate
> ways to choose, combine and integrate the plants into the diet.  (Yes, we
> have decades worth of details to work out.)
>
> The leading-edge medicinal plant cultivators are returning us to the
> knowledge of how plants can express the power of a highly-biodiverse
> setting, like wild plants in a healthy biome, to maximize their healing
> potential.  The cultivators/stewards are also beginning to insist on parity
> pricing, in acknowledgement of the principle of economic sustainability.  I
> believe this process is inverting the "value chain."
>
> The paradigm shift is occurring despite the efforts of the industrial
> Powers-That-Be to hold it back.  Their reactions may be oppressive, but more
> and more health professionals are realizing what's happening and are
> proceeding to educate themselves.
>
> Anyone in doubt about Pharma's goals and methods, including how published
> papers are sometimes manufactured for a pre-determined conclusion, read this
> book:  Peterson, Melody, 2009. Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical
> Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked
> the Nation on Prescription Drugs  (Picador paperback).
>
> Also, remember that Pharma now owns the largest dietary supplement
> corporations, so the line between drugs and herbal products has been
> blurred.  The operative concept here is "manufactured product."
>
> We have our work cut out for us, good luck to everyone.
>
> Jean
>
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Andrea Schwarzbach wrote:
>
> Hi!
> The CNN report mentioned below is summarizing  a recently published paper
> [Tachjian A, Maria V, Jahangir A. Use of herbal products and potential
> interactions in patients with cardiovascular diseases. J Amer Coll Cardiol.
> 2010;55(6). [DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2009.07.074] that has major flaws and is
> obviously written by someone who is a specialist in cardiology but certainly
> has no clue about botany or medicinal plants.
>
> You might be interested in a press release by the American Botanical
> Council regarding the original paper pointing out some of the many mistakes.
> http://cms.herbalgram.org/press/2010/Response_CardiologyArticle.html
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dr. Andrea Schwarzbach
> Associate Professor
> University of Texas-Brownsville
> Department of Biological Sciences
> 80 Fort Brown
> Brownsville, TX 78520
>
>
> On 2/2/10 11:33 AM, "Emanuela Appetiti" <ceo at medicaltraditions.org> wrote:
>
> HI!
>
> Thought you might be interested in this article about some herbal remedies
> affecting the activity of heart drugs, appeared today in CNN health:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/01/moh.healthmag.remedies.avoid/
>
> Best,
>
> Emanuela Appetiti
>
>  <http://medicaltraditions.org/>
>
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>
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