Which have been Truly Tested Drugs or Natural Remedies

The drug companies, both here and other places would like us to believe that their drugs have been tested and the findings made public and that they are safe. They would also like us to believe that natural remedies have not been tested. But the opposite is true.

All this is based on the belief that man made drugs being newer are better than the “old fashioned” natural remedies”. During the debate in the Canadian Parliament one speaker reminded those who attended the debate and us, via YouTube, that 10% of the people in hospital were there because they were suffering from the side effects of the drugs that they had been prescribed and not one person was there because of natural remedies.

They admitted that there had been side effects with some herbal medicines, but pointed out that allergic reaction accounted for some of this. Many of the speakers against the Bill started by saying they agreed with the aim of the whole Bill which was to safeguard those using medicines from harm and it was particularly important that people knew what was in medicines that had been manufactured abroad. The fact that medicines were imported was another concern raised. The concern was that what people thought they were taking was not what was actually in them (more of this in a later post).

The main concern was that the drug companies knew about the side effects of the drugs and kept quiet about them. They admitted that it was cheaper for them to be sued and pay than to reveal what they knew about the side effects.

How Are They Tested?

What about the testing itself? In many cases this is done on people in poor countries. Those on medication for a specific disease are taken off of it and they are given the new, untested drug, and not told that they are acting as guinea pigs. In many cases their disease is made worse by the new drug and they are abandoned, unpaid, with the ill effects of what they had been given.

People in this country are persuaded to sign up to test drugs. One of these went disastrously wrong and has left those who took part wide open to cancer and other diseases.

How Are Natural Remedies Tested?

What about the testing of Natural Remedies. In most cases these have been used with beneficial effects for hundreds, if not thousands of years Cheap Accutane and have been tested like all other foods, by people ingesting it and discovering what it did for them. But a note of caution has to be sounded and that is because it is natural does not mean it is good for you. There are many poisonous plants, which you should not touch as they can make you ill and in some cases kill you.

Here we asked what was really tested: Drugs or Natural Remedies, in the next ones we will be looking at Organic Produce and the Soil Association.