I sure hope you aren't implying that I am suggesting to anyone that they should stop conventional treatment and rush out to the nearest herbologist and cure their cancer. If it were this easy, there would be no cancer left in the world. Exploring alternative medicine for even trained individuals is a sure sign of lack of intelligence, even for a PhD. Taking Oregamax (wild oregano) to ease a runny nose from allergies or hay fever is a far cry from dumping everything available for something unknow, unquantifiable and undocumented. Our bodies ability to ingest raw or cooked vegetables and extract the needed nutrients is not fully understood by man and we may never know exactly how it is done on a cellular level other than to surmise, speculate, develop a theory and test for the desired results.

We have released many drugs after even decades of thorough testing to find out future generations are born deformed physically and/or mentally. We have created many drugs that have damaged livers and hearts but solve other biological issues. I can't help but think that many of the studies by pharma companies have been somewhat stacked for success in view of the enormous profit potential that drives them as well as the quacks. We can't develop a false sense of security because the FDA has rubber stamped it. How many people on this board received the bad batches of Duragesic patches that were recalled. The dosages were totally uncontrolled and caused a roller coaster ride from no medication to the entire patch unloading at once. Lucky me, I was asking the doctor and pharmacist about it back in December only to find out several batches were released in error. I keep getting legal forms to fill out now to allow them to dig into all my medical information from now on, just in case.

There are no sure cures for many illnesses and the herbal or vitamin path is certainly a potential to improve quality of life.

Ed