Patients: Be Wary of Herbal Supplements

Researchers randomly selected 44 supplements and found most were “of poor quality, including considerable product substitution, contamination and use of fillers.” Consider two bottles of St. John’s wort used to treat depression. One contained pills that had no evidence of the advertised herb, while the other substituted another plant that happened to be a known [...]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/patients-be-wary-of-herbal-supplements/