unrecognized side effects/pregnancy

[Guest guest]

, " Bob Flaws " <

pemachophel2001> wrote:

>

> According to Robert Anderson, medical anthropologists have documented

> long-term use of traditional remedies in various cultures where those

> remedies have/are causing side effects unnoticed by the people within

> those cultures. Dr. Anderson conveyed this information to me when I,

> like you, argued as above. He told me that I was being naive. If a

> culture does not expect side effects from a particular therapy, then

> they may ascribe any such side effects to some other, unrelated cause.

 

Bob Flaws

 

With this in mind, I was curious how you feel about the use of chinese herbs in

pregnant women. Isn't it distinctly possible that certain chinese herbs may

have teratogenic effects that were not ascribed to the herbs in ancient times

because the cause and effect were so far apart in time (compared to

abortifacient effects, which are relatively soon after taking the herb). I

don't

think just because an herb was considered safe in China for use in pregnancy

that it automatically gets a clean bill of health vis a vis teratogenesis. Did

the

chinese even have a concept of herbs causing birth defects? Or were certain

herbs prohibited only when they were known to induce miscarriage. A

cursory survey of the materia medica seems to suggest the latter.

 

[Guest guest]

A

cursory survey of the materia medica seems to suggest the latter.

>>>Except for some of the toxic herbs such as cao wu, ban xia etc.

Alon