So I've always been very critical of every chemical we put in our bodies. Because of that I've always taken prescriptions with a large grain of salt. I think we shouldn't play fast and lose with what we put in ourselves.
Many people have caught on to the valid criticism of the medical institutions and recognized rightly that they aren't perfect or infallible. But people's sense of binary thinking takes over and they think they must support herbal remedies, and support them to the point that no critical thinking or actual thought is ever needed again.
I just got some free herbal tea packs with one of these meal kit boxes. One of them was peppermint, one of them was ginger. I saw that they were both caffine free (I don't even do caffeine because I believe in keeping my circadian rhythm working like it should), but I noticed a lack of ingredient listing. But if it is just a little ginger stew, I could go for that. Sounds nice. I do some digging. Not even the product on their website bothers to list ingredients. But I found it on Amazon and Amazon makes people list out ingredients because they don't want to get sued. It does have medicinals. So I start looking these drugs up. Turns out that several of them are contra-indicated against a lot of diabetic medication, and some of them can even cause a miscarriage because they induce menstruation even when you shouldn't be.
So I'm neither diabetic or pregnant. I can't even menstruate if I wanted to.. yet. But imagine. You have diabetes, you are taking your medicine like you should, then you drink a free tea that has unlisted drugs in it that interact with your medication. Reckless.
Either: Herbals are real drugs as potent as commercial pharmaceuticals and a viable alternative and worthy of careful consideration and study before taking, and not something fun to try because its in a tea; Or, herbals are entirely ineffectual, play medicine, and something we can get into as part of health entertainment. Pick one.
More on the gray area there were a lot of anti-inflammatories. I can see where that's generally good, but that should be listed because maybe not everyone needs an anti-inflammatory. If you are claiming your product is medicinal, why not be responsible and list out your shit.
So I've always been very critical of every chemical we put in our bodies. Because of that I've always taken prescriptions with a large grain of salt. I think we shouldn't play fast and lose with what we put in ourselves.
Many people have caught on to the valid criticism of the medical institutions and recognized rightly that they aren't perfect or infallible. But people's sense of binary thinking takes over and they think they must support herbal remedies, and support them to the point that no critical thinking or actual thought is ever needed again.
I just got some free herbal tea packs with one of these meal kit boxes. One of them was peppermint, one of them was ginger. I saw that they were both caffine free (I don't even do caffeine because I believe in keeping my circadian rhythm working like it should), but I noticed a lack of ingredient listing. But if it is just a little ginger stew, I could go for that. Sounds nice. I do some digging. Not even the product on their website bothers to list ingredients. But I found it on Amazon and Amazon makes people list out ingredients because they don't want to get sued. It does have medicinals. So I start looking these drugs up. Turns out that several of them are contra-indicated against a lot of diabetic medication, and some of them can even cause a miscarriage because they induce menstruation even when you shouldn't be.
So I'm neither diabetic or pregnant. I can't even menstruate if I wanted to.. yet. But imagine. You have diabetes, you are taking your medicine like you should, then you drink a free tea that has unlisted drugs in it that interact with your medication. Reckless.
Either: Herbals are real drugs as potent as commercial pharmaceuticals and a viable alternative and worthy of careful consideration and study before taking, and not something fun to try because its in a tea; Or, herbals are entirely ineffectual, play medicine, and something we can get into as part of health entertainment. Pick one.
More on the gray area there were a lot of anti-inflammatories. I can see where that's generally good, but that should be listed because maybe not everyone needs an anti-inflammatory. If you are claiming your product is medicinal, why not be responsible and list out your shit.
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