In the latest in an endless series of articles where the press bashes the natural products / alternative health / herbal industry, MSN reported that some smart guy medical doctor professor named Wallace Sampson said, "When it comes to herbal remedies, the bottom line is that they are drugs and toxins and most plant species out there have a more likely chance of harming one than helping one."
It's so easy for the press to bash the little guy. Why don't they ever do an expose on the giant pharmaceutical companies' and how they manipulate doctors, insurance companies, medical schools and the public? Oh, yeah, that's right -- 'cause the Rx companies buy ads and commericals on television, radio, newspapers and magazines. D'oh!
The article was intended to report a study that "proved" that echinacea was useless in helping to prevent colds. What the article didn't report was that the study used a tiny amount of echinacea in the subjects, nothing close to the amount that would be used therapeutically by an herbal consumer trying to keep a cold at bay.
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