why herbal meds are not used

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Corrie,

welcome! I am glad you are with us, and thanks for the nice

introduction!

Being a nurse practitioner and physician assistant (now retired from

both), and having written maybe thousands of prescriptions, I can tell

you that we or the docs didn't recommend herbals to patients because 1)

there is still so little known about their use (i.e.dosages, side

effects, etc, and 2) you have no idea how the drug reps manipulate and

push you to use their stuff, and 3) it might even be called malpractice.

The FDA is, at last, realizing how they have goofed in not testing the

herbal remedies and are starting to do something about it. But it may be

years before herbals slowly creep into usage by traditional medicine. I

used to recommend simple things to my patients, but it just never got

back to the docs, or they might have had a fit!

am, 76, Tucson

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