Artemisia Book to calm hysteria :)

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I reply to so many emails I might have mentioned this. If so--sorry.

 

We published last month a text for patients and physicians on the new top WHO

and UNICEF malaria medication--THE DERIVATIVES OF A CHINESE HERB ARTEMISIA.

Sorry the stocks already bounced. Folks with brain malaria and massively

infected red blood cells have no fever or positive visible cells in 2-3 days,

which is staggering.

 

Also helps kill the 9-11 forms of Babesia in the US which are 99% missed as

causes of fatigue and other problems and do not always have anemia as is taught.

It also helps with some cancers. Zhang will have a nice chapter in Oxford press

book on cancer coming out fairly soon, which I just edited, and found many fine

ideas from our Chinese herbal practitioners. And he is quite good at

communicating in American pathology terms, instead of metaphysical and complex

energy medicine terms. Some time at Harvard helped with communication.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Artemisinin-Artesunate-Artemisinic-Derivatives-Artemisia/d\

p/0978747399/sr=1-4/qid=1162808039/ref=sr_1_4/103-1989689-2383032?ie=UTF8 & s=book\

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James Schaller, MD

www.HopeAcademic.com

jschaller

Florida

 

 

 

 

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JoAnn Guest

Sunday, November 05, 2006 5:35 PM

MD Hysteria Against Herbs Reaches

Epidemic Proportions:Threatens Nation'

 

 

MD Hysteria Against Herbs Reaches Epidemic Proportions

JoAnn Guest

Feb 07, 2004 13:36 PST

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MD Hysteria Against Herbs Reaches Epidemic Proportions:

Threatens Nation's Health

by Alan Tillotson, Ph.D.

 

August 2, 2000

For Immediate Release

 

A mass epidemic of hysteria against common plants use for health

purposes hasemerged over the past year. Local outbreaks are reported

occurring in allparts of the United States.

 

MD's and former regulatory officials seem hardest

hit. The hysteria seems to be fueled by physicians and reporters

untrained inthe proper use of plant medicines responding to reports

of

specific isolated

problems attributed to herbs, and then jumping to false, excessive

andunwarranted conclusions based on limited or erroneous

information.

 

The newsyndrome is being labeled hysterical phytophobia.

 

In a typical case, a Wilmington, Delaware neurologist was shown a

list

ofplant medicines given to an elderly patient by a professional

herbalist, andpromptly wrote a letter to her family physician saying

that one of the herbs could be fatal.

It turned out that the herbalist had given the woman ginseng

root in small dosage, appropriate for her age and symptom picture.

 

Theneurologist, with no background or training in herbal medicine,

misread Chineseginseng root (Panax ginseng) for jimson weed (Datura

stramonium), a toxicplant which contains the alkaloids atropine,

hyoscyamine, and scopolamine,and is not commercially available.

 

News reports reporting an article in the March 1999 edition of the

journalFertility and Sterility, stated that St. John's Wort

(Hypericum perforatum), echinacea (Echinacea species)

and ginkgo leaf (Ginkgo biloba) might have anegative impact on human

fertility. Researchers from the Loma Linda

University School of Medicine in California had reported that

directly

dosing

human sperm with large amounts of these herbs in the test tube

caused

the sperm to lose its ability to penetrate hamster eggs. The lead

author

of the study, Richard R. Ondrizek, M.D. was upset

and " flabbergasted "

that his research was being used in the media to promote the idea

that

these herbs could cause infertility in humans.

 

In February, 2000, Reuters reported that juice derived from the

fruit

of the Noni tree (Morinda citrifolia), a popular health food, was a

hidden source ofpotassium and therefore could be hazardous for

patients

with kidney disease.

 

According to an article in the February issue of the American

Journal of

Kidney Diseases, the juice contained potassium, but did not include

this

information on the label.

 

The amount of potassium in the juice was found to

be similar to that of orange juice and tomato juice, common food

items

whichare sometimes restricted in the diets of patients with kidney

disease.

 

According to the researchers, the case illustrates the potential

dangers

of herbal products.

 

However, James Duke, Ph.D. developer of the voluminous USDA

databases on natural products points out that " All plants contain

potassium.

 

Must we idiotically and neurotically label all our foods as hazards

tonephrotics? . . . Certainly they should advise people that the

beet,

chicory,Chinese cabbage, cucumber, dill, lambsquarter, lettuce, mung

bean, oats,

purslane, radish, spinach and watercress may contain more potassium

on

a dryweight basis than tomato and Noni (if their unpublished

analysis

wascorrect).

 

Asparagus, barley, beans, carrot, celery, coriander, swamp

cabbage, wheat and dozens of other common foods are worse than

orange as

sources of potassium. "

 

No one has suggested that lack of potassium labeling

on these items is an example of the potential dangers of food.

 

The New England Journal of Medicine reported last week that dietary

supplements may contain a variety of animal tissues " that could

spread

...

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) " , commonly known as mad cow

disease.

 

Reuters admitted however that so far no BSE has not yet been

identified

in the US, in spite of the fact that 60% of Americans are taking

dietary

supplements.

 

The average American consumes 112.3 pounds of meat per year

(1990), which is equivalent to 138 grams per day. The small amount

of

food supplements which contain animal products are usually

manufactured

by

reputable companies in sterile facilities (one of which has been in

business for over 30 years), and given at doses at approximately

1/10 of

a gram per day. This 1/10 gram increases the estimated 0% risk by

1/1380

of 0%, which still equals 0% risk.

 

In fact risk cannot be calculated until the first case

is reported on US shores. The true risk may actually be less than

0%,

due to the beneficial effects of many herbs on immune function.

 

In addition the problems with mathematical calculations (see below),

fear-mongering phytophobic hysterics also seem unable to

differentiate

between animal products and plant (herbal) products, in spite of

give-away keywords on the

labels such as " bovine source " or " pork thyroid. "

 

The current outbreak of hysterical phytophobia is believed by

observers

to have originated from a cumulative effect caused by press releases

over the past year attacking DSHEA, the law which governs dietary

supplements, and which removed some power from the FDA due to past

abuses.

 

In its later stages, hysterical phytophobia victims have been known

to

go on camera with eyes bulging and bodies gyrating while they repeat

a

litany of charges against herbal medicines, most of which have been

discredited in the past,

some of which stem back more than 10 years.

 

The disease also cause a form of selective amnesia/dementia,

whereupon

victims seem completely unaware of the thousands of safety studies

andplacebo-controlled studies clearly showing a high benefit to risk

ratio for most herbs and supplements.

 

They also seem unable to mathematically calculate the vast numerical

difference between the thousands of victims of modern

pharmaceutical medicine and the handful of victims of natural

medicines.

 

For example, pharmaceuticals routinely kill 140,000 Americans a year

(according to JAMA 1997), making herbs approximately 2,800 times

safer

than pharmaceuticals.

 

Put another way, since one Americans dies from pharmaceuticals every

three hours, at least two will expire during the

average time spent writing an article attacking herbs.

 

There is currently no known cure for hysterical phytophobia. Some

observers point out that there are rare remissions which seem to

occur

when physicians themselves are struck by severe illness, and forced

to

undergo toxic therapy in the cold, dehumanizing environment

characteristic of modern medicine.

 

Others note that the real victims are the American people, who in

the

futuremay find their freedom to obtain needed and sometimes life-

saving

nutritional

supplements curtailed by the unrelenting pseudo-scientific attacks

made

by rabid phytophobic fear-mongers.