Guest guest Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Hi to you all. About herbal remedies, here, in Italy, firstly we have to distinguish between local, european herbs and not-european drugs. European and italian herbs are divided in two main cathegories: most of them are free in use, in prescribingand selling, both in pharmacies and in herbal shops;only a small amount must be given from a practitioner, of course, because of the cautions and contraindications known. On the other hand, there are the extraeuropean herbs, like chinese herbs. There is a lot of chinese (and not) herbal shops selling the so-called " patent medicine " coming from China and -sometimes- the single drugs, as dried herb or tablets/pills. Rarely they have enough control about pesticides, heavy metals, aflatoxines, radioactivity and so on, all of the tips to get a GMP product. Therefore, in my personal opinion, too many times newspapers are writing on great amounts of contaminants (allopathic drugs such as steroids or FANS, i.e.) found in herbal (?) remedies while entering in Italy. We haven't enough sure products imported. Thus, my answering to Hugo, some weeks ago: in case of prescription of a recipe as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan/Pian in a pregnant woman, in case of problem, surely, at the present time, in Italy, it will be considered as deriving from this recipe. I prescribe only drugs certified that patients buy in normal pharmacies, because some recipes are registered in our Health Ministery. Other drugs (luckely a certain quantity) are sold as registered drugs in the pharmacies with medical prescription. These are all dried extracts, up to obtain usual TCM recipes. In this case I cannot obtain the same as dried drugs in decoction, it is similar, but not the same. As when, in the past, I gave patent medicine coming from China: they were only a mixture made by summing single drugs, gathered together, not the classical Tang in which all the single active principles of each herbs, will give us the new active principles while in decotion, in this way characterizing the formula we know. We are only waiting for new laws, granting our work and patients Hoping to be clear, and asking a pardon because of my terrific english, I know! If it is not clear, please, before calling a sniper, tell/write me! Kisses and regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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