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work with New Chapter (notably, botanical inventory on their organic farm,
Sacred Seeds medicinal forest garden, and nature preserve in Costa Rica), and I
can definitely confirm that they have NOT been bought by a pharma.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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[mailto:mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>marguerite uhlmann-bower<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 04, 2010
9:40 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Jean Giblette<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org; Andrea Schwarzbach<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [MPWG] herbal
remedies associated with heart drugs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Jean. <br>
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Which brings up a question for me after reading your thoughts. <br>
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Can someone out there please shed some light for me on a rumor I heard not too
long ago<br>
about a pharmaceutical company (?) having purchased New Chapter. Yes, New
Chapter. <br>
That wonderful grass roots company. Is it true? Not true?<br>
<br>
I emailed New Chapter a couple weeks ago and have yet to hear back from them on
this.<br>
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OK. So lets say they did 'sell out' to big pharma. <br>
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Now what? Its the American way is it not? More is better. Growth is what <br>
capitalism is all about. I was just having this conversation with my husband
this<br>
a.m. So how do we as Americans be happy with what we have? Maintain /
sustain? <br>
Accept less as more? <br>
<br>
Am I ready to give up my house b/c I can't afford to live here or do I sell <br>
out to someone that will enable me? <br>
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Its no different than what we're seeing here in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State>. Farmers and or land <br>
owners selling out to Gas Co's for the other kind of green even though they're <br>
well aware that the land that feeds us is going to be fracked, poisoned and cut
in half. <br>
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Money talks. We know it. AMA, Pharmaceuticals, Corporate America know it too. <br>
Actually, isn't that why man becomes doctors. Our mothers told them 'go to school,
become <br>
a doctor and make lots of money'. <br>
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But money, more is better, capitalism, fear, power over, are all effecting
herbs,<br>
leeching out the health of our plants and trees.<br>
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12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>Each one of these assumptions is an artifact, now being challenged.
The establishment of Oriental Medicine in <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place> 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.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Hi!<br>
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. <br>
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You might be interested in a press release by the American Botanical Council
regarding the original paper pointing out some of the many mistakes.<br>
<a href="http://cms.herbalgram.org/press/2010/Response_CardiologyArticle.html"
target="_blank">http://cms.herbalgram.org/press/2010/Response_CardiologyArticle.html</a><br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Dr. Andrea Schwarzbach<br>
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University of Texas-Brownsville<br>
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On 2/2/10 11:33 AM, "Emanuela Appetiti" <<a
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>HI!<br>
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Thought you might be interested in this article about some herbal remedies
affecting the activity of heart drugs, appeared today in CNN health:<br>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/01/moh.healthmag.remedies.avoid/"
target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/01/moh.healthmag.remedies.avoid/</a><br>
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<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">13757</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
(607) 278-9635<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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