Herbal Supplements Quotes

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

I can feel a cold coming on right now, so I am going to start using collodial silver again.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

I've always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.

I never shy away from herbs!

I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

I'm a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.