Originally published July 6 2004
Western medicine's relentless attacks on herbs like ginseng continue
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Western medicine loves to attack herbs. And their favorite ploy? Point out which herbs interfere with their pet prescription drugs. As if the prescription drugs were good for you in the first place! The fact is, what we should be talking about is how prescription drugs interfere with normal healthy physiology, not how herbs (which are helping the body) interfere with drugs (which are poisoning the body).
These sort of "herbs interfere with drugs" news headlines are just another low-down tactic by organized medicine to discredit powerful healing herbs like ginseng.
Researchers from the University of Chicago report in the July 6, 2004, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine that ginseng, one of the best selling herbal supplements in the United States, interferes with warfarin, a drug commonly used to prevent blood clots.
"With too small a dose," added Yuan, the Cyrus Tang Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care and director of the Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research at the University of Chicago, "the risk of clots increases, but too much can cause serious bleeding.
They suspect that substances within ginseng may enhance the function of enzymes that break down warfarin, clearing it from the blood stream more rapidly.
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