Integrative Medicine And It’s Future

The NBC National News, quoted the Washington Post in March 2000 in regards to the concerns that the FDA had on the mixing of supplements and conventional medications. There clearly were concerns that millions of people are taking supplements (considered herbs, homeopathic, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and some diet products) and having reactions if they mix these things with common and prescribed medications.

I have studied this phenomenon for over 20 years and do know for a well known fact that with conventional medications, these reactions are quite common. The AMA is calling for the FDA to reverse their ruling on supplements implemented in 1997.

Is this really the best approach?

Many Universities over the nation have closed their Ethno -botany and Botany labs, disallowing many with the gift in this field to assist in the seek out new cures, and to find out which plants can have adverse reactions when coupled with other chemicals

A good example is the treatment of Gout.

Medications that are prescribed by traditional medicine are normally Allopurinal or Zyloprim and Colchicine (which, incidentally, is a homeopathic remedy from the bulb of the Autumn Crocus) which decreases the reaction that triggers uric acid in the blood. Allopurinal and Colchicine can be enhanced by a specialized diet and the elimination of some supplements that could cause an elevation of certain enzymes in the diet. Both these drugs can also cause serious negative effects and toxicity when taken in high doses and/or for a prolonged period of time.

The deficiency of certain nutrients can provoke an attack of gout, individuals who take antibiotics can increase the chance of an attack and a persons diet can certainly influence not only the severity of an attack, however the frequency of attacks.

You can find other reactions that have to be taken into consideration also, and then is that Allopurinal and Colchicine include a negative impact on the liver after 6 months of use, that may ensure it is harder for those drugs to work effectively intravenous vitamin and mineral therapy. If additionally you add some supplementation, even a regular multi-vitamin into the machine once the liver has already been struggling to maintain the demands of the machine, this will cause an adverse reaction to the liver, simply since the liver has to work harder to absorb the micro-nutrients given in the multi-vitamin.

The stability among conventional medicinal drug and opportunity remedy is a delicate one. Today, each faculty of idea might not come collectively, and anybody else who suffers.

For many who endured allergies when Seldane was prescribed, this is a very concerning issue. When taking Seldane, patients were not told that taking the medication alongside certain micro-nutrients could show to be fatal, and was in a couple of cases over the United States.

In 1993, the New England Journal of medicine published a write-up by which researchers estimated that as many as 60 million people had participated in alternative medical care. A follow-up study to that particular one, which appeared in a 1998 issue of JAMA, estimated that the number of visits to alternative practitioners had increased a lot more than 47 percentage among 1990 and 1997 and that prices in 1997 for opportunity remedy offerings surpassed 21 billion dollars.

In our small town we’d a family group practitioner that took care of town needs. He was an excellent man that always gave of his time, energy and knowledge freely. Weekly after he was diagnosed with Gastric Carcinoma, he called me for advice. I asked him why he’d call me and ask me for help. He said he had watched the patients he had diagnosed with this particular same disease die slow, painful and miserable death, while they certainly were on conventional medications. He said he knew that the standard medications and protocols didn’t work, he had diagnosed cancers, informed the patients, watched them slowly die and he wanted something else. I treated him for 9 months; the cancer did not advance in the period, it didn’t disappear completely either, nonetheless it didn’t advance.