Natural/Home Remedies Series

Nova Simpson, Pharm.D. — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:11:37 +0000

Welcome to our new and exciting series -all about home/natural remedies! This page is here to work as a sort of table of contents. This series will incorporate things such as “mom remedies”, herbs, vitamins, acupuncture, etc.

Just a few notes on natural/home remedies…

1. Natural or home remedies often have quite a bit of anecdotal evidence but no hard scientific fact…

Mostly because there is not much money in these remedies, so none of the companies want to put funding into researching a product that won’t make them too much money.

2. The FDA (the government agency that approves drugs) does not regulate natural remedies…

So, the natural/home remedy does not need to prove that they actually work
The herbs do not need to actually contain the amount of herb that the label states

3. Natural/home remedies do have side effects!