Top Ten Drugs: Safe, Natural Alternatives

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Top 10 Drugs: Safe, Natural, Alternatives

 

 

Working as a pharmacist for the past 15 years, Clell brings an integrative

approach to the use of nutritional supplements and the proper role of herbs.

 

 

In pharmacy practice his area of clinical expertise was concentrated in

nutritional supplementation and clinical investigation and research. Since

joining NSP in 1997, Clell has been extensively involved in natural product

research and new product research, developing some extremely effective, patented

formulas for the company.

 

He is the author of Drugs and Natural Alternatives, which explores the ways in

which natural alternatives might be employed to aid the most common ailments for

which medications are prescribed.

 

Top 10 Prescription Medicines - from the pharmacists (top 200 in order of the

numbers dispensed and filled, not according to revenues generated)

 

1. Premarin

2. Synthroid

3. Trimox, Zithromax

4. Lortab, Zoloft, Paxil

5. Prilosec

6. Lipitor

8. Norvase

9. Claritin

10. Lanoxin

 

How Are Pharmaceuticals Made? What is the purpose of drug companies? They are a

corporation; their bottom line is to make money. How has drug development

changed?

 

" In the beginning " , the physician and pharmacist used to see the patients

together; the physician would make the diagnosis, then the pharmacist would find

the appropriate herb, potion, etc. and administer it to the patient.

Then they started producing these ointments and pills and potions in bulk, and

then started doing their own research. The first - aspirin - an isolate of a

natural product (Bayer Co., in Germany) - and it worked well, so then they

started doing this with other things - penicillin, etc.

 

Then the philosophy changed after WW II; the drug companies decided they could

do a better job than nature by producing a targeted drug and started to produce

drugs in the laboratory; this proved to be very financially successful - but

also produced many side effects to these synthetic drugs. Now they are going

back to the natural substances again - example: taxi, made from the bark of the

pacific yew tree.

 

How are drug studies conducted?

 

Studies are required by the FDA to get a drug approved and put onto the market.

Drug companies are so good at doing these studies that they can manipulate the

studies to get the desired results. When it is first released to the public, it

is still in its final phase of testing.

 

Drug reps will say to the doctor, " It kills everything, has no side effects " ,

and the doctors all start using it because the drug reps have given them

incentives to start writing scripts.

 

Occasionally, the pharmacists will get a letter from FDA recalling everything,

and requiring them to contact every person who had taken the drug and return it;

and ordering the patients to return to their

doctor for follow-up care.

 

" Dear Health Care Provider " letter - emergency recall - turned out to have one

nasty little side effect - in some people, it tended to kill them! That can put

a crimp in your lifestyle!

 

Does this mean it was a bad antibiotic? No - it did kill the organism - but it

killed the host, too!

 

Emergency recalls actually happen quite often - you just don't hear about it!

 

TOP TEN CATEGORIES OF DRUGS

 

1. PREMARIN (Conjugated Estrogens) - Pregnant Mare Urine (Wyeth-Ayerst)

 

Many women are having serious problems with premarin - it kills women. If they

are pre-disposed to estrogen sensitive cancer, and you give them cancer it will

cause the cancer to grow. These risks are well known, and have been associated

with that drug since the beginning. Last Dec., Clell's wife had a total

hysterectomy; following surgery, the OB-GYN talked to her about taking Premarin

- despite all of these studies!

 

It takes 17 years for a doctor to adopt a new philosophy!!

 

Premarin is for menopause, it is an estrogen replacement, the oldest and most

popular. (Similar: prem-pro, etc.)

 

Premarin Alternatives:

 

Pro-G-Yam 500 mg. (start with this first, for a month or two, nothing else) -

50-60% will feel great just with this; the rest are not quite there yet; and 5%

will still feel terrible. These are women who are very estrogen dominant, and

Pro-G-Yam cream may not work well for them.

 

Black Cohosh, Flash-Ease, Red Clover, Calcium/Vitamin D (to help

prevent bone loss after menopause)

 

2. SYNTHROID (Levothyroxine) - Synthetic Thyroid (Knoll Pharmaceuticals)

 

On the market for over 40 years but never approved by the FDA - " just slipped

through the cracks " . Argued to have it grandfathered, but the FDA said no, and

gave them a time limit to have this approved as a drug, or be pulled from the

market. The reason? Two other manufacturers of synthetic thyroid replacement

have submitted studies and been approved. There have been actual problems with

the drug (Synthroid) - there have been different potencies in different lots

even though they are the same manufactured dosage (same color pill).

 

Synthroid Alternatives:

Kelp, Master Gland, TS II

 

 

3. TRIMOX (Amoxicillin) - penicillin: kill organisms by interrupting the death

of the cycle [ANTIBIOTICS]

 

ZITHROMAX (Azithromycin) - arythromycin: work through a static system and keep

the organisms from replicating, which causes them to die off.

 

Use of these two types of antibiotics together are contraindicated - yet doctors

write prescriptions for them all the time! Doctors only take 1 or 2 semesters of

pharmacology, so learn most of their drug usage during their internship, and let

a nurse correct the dosage if they write down the wrong thing.

 

(Don't ever get sick in July - that's when all the med students start their

rotations in the hospitals!!)

 

Better today since many doctors are using the palm pilots with PDR loaded into

it! Still, most doctors are familiar with about 70 drugs, those that are within

their area of specialty.

 

Trimox Alternatives:

 

Garlic (used by medics in WW II when antibiotics were not available),

Pau d'Arco, Olive Leaf, Paw Paw, Immune Stimulator.

 

Best way to get rid of ANY infection - NEVER GET IT TO BEGIN WITH!! If you have

an immune system capable of handling the day to day germs, and have a nervous

system that can release stress (the biggest trigger for infections) - you won't

have to worry about getting infections! That is where Immune Stimulator does so

well - wonderful supplement!!!

 

4. LORTAB (Acetaminophen and Hydrocodone) - to relieve moderate to severely

moderate pain.

 

Lortab and Vicodin Alternatives:

 

Morinda (Noni), SAM-e, Triple Relief - will work even with broken bones and

post-surgery, APS II.

 

 

5. PROZAC (Fluoxetine), ZOLOFT (Sertyraline), PAXIL (Paroxetine)

 

SSRI's - prescribed for depression, anxiety.

 

Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil Alternatives:

 

St. John's Wort - increase serotonin levels, 5-HTP - precursor to serotonin,

SAM-e - terrific and fast-working alternative to anti-depressants.

 

Weight Loss, other problems - is it REALLY depression??

 

 

6. PRILOSEC (Omeprazole)

 

Being replaced by Nexium, which is half of a prilosec - this " one hand " of the

drug was found to work better than the other, so they isolated it and are using

this primarily for GERD.

 

Prilosec Alternatives:

 

Ginger - helps get the food out of the stomach and moving along - thus

preventing the acid from reaching the esophagus, Gastro Health - specifically

used to fight H-Pylori Factor (which is primary cause of ulcers, and often

migraine headaches), Stomach Comfort.

 

 

7. LIPITOR (Atorvastatin) - Statin Drugs

 

Hinders the liver's ability to produce cholesterol, and strips the body of CoQ

10.

 

Lipitor Alternatives:

 

Cholester-Reg, Garlic, Psyllium Hulls, Fat Grabbers, LOCLO.

 

 

8. NORVASC (Amlodipine) - for hypertension

 

Start with one or two, then pretty soon you are on a whole host of medications

to treat all the side effects of the original drug given. The first question -

is it really hyper-tension? Men don't go to doctors, and they wait to go until

they feel really awful; then they are sitting in a paper gown in the exam room

when the nurse walks in to take the blood pressure. They are one of two

categories - either Broom Hilda or Baywatch!

 

Our blood pressure changes rapidly throughout the day, so to get an accurate

diagnosis of hypertension, there must be three readings, at least 15 minutes

apart - one lying down, one sitting, and one standing. Repeat the test on a

later date, preferably at a different location, with all three again.

 

Norvasc Alternatives:

 

Hawthorn, Coenzyme Q-10, Olive Leaf, Vitamin E, Blood Pressurex, Gingko.

 

 

9. CLARITIN (Loratadine) - DTC " Direct To Consumer "

 

(Worst thing that has happened to health care in this country, advertising drugs

on radio, TC, magazines - but it works! The sales of these drugs are greatly

elevated!)

 

Claritin Alternatives:

 

ALJ, Grape Seed, Cordyceps.

 

10. LANOXIN (Digoxin) Commonly referred to as " Dig " (pronounced " didge " )

 

Lanoxin Alternatives:

 

CoQ10, Vitamin E, Hawthorn - has very similar action as digoxin, so cannot be

taken with digoxin, Omega 3, Flax Seed Oil, Olive Leaf, Ginkgo.

 

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