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| incentive for their testing in the United States, where proving the effectiveness and safety of a drug to the FDA's satisfaction can take 10 or more years and cost 100 million dollars. |
| Caution Three: Doctoring yourself with herbs can be very dangerous. "Given the availability of modern medicines with proven effectiveness and safety when used as directed," warns the FDA, "treating ailments with herbs is both unnecessary and risky." |
| If orthodox therapies worked, would people of all socio-economic and educational backgrounds invest billions of dollars every year in alternatives? Orthodox medicine's failure to cure chronic illnesses like arthritis, asthma, heart disease, diverticulitis and prostatitis results from its failure to address the cause of disease. |
| A large percentage of FDA-approved drugs are withdrawn from the market within a few years of their release because of adverse side effects that were not discovered or not reported during testing, side effects that are often fatal or debilitating. Few people know that at least half of the most widely used allopathic therapies are themselves unproven, including chemotherapy for cancer, heart bypass surgery, hysterectomies, the ultrasound screening of unborn babies, surgery for back pain, radical mastectomy to cure breast cancer, drugs to lower blood pressure or cholesterol, radiation or surgery for prostate tumors, hormone replacement therapy and balloon angioplasty to unblock heart arteries. Critics like Julian Whitaker and award-winning medical journalist Lynne McTaggart cite research published in highly regarded medical journals showing that these therapies have never been proven effective, but because they are so profitable to hospitals, physicians and drug companies, they remain widely prescribed. |
| It is possible to create problems if you self-treat with the wrong medicinal plants, but in general, the risks of self-treatment are far less than those experienced by most |
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