Beat's me why...

hummingbyrd
hummingbyrd Member Posts: 950 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Maybe someone can help me out here, cause I sure don't understand...
one of the "12 dangerous dietary supplements" to be taken off the market by the FDA is 'skullcap' (Huang Qin). Didn't mean much to me because I'm not familiar with it, don't take it, but then I go to the NCCAM website. A division of the NIH - National Institute of Health. The NCCAM - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was established in 1999 to study alternative therapies for various illnesses.
In 2003 they reported "a study found that an extract from a root of a botanical called Chinese skullcap (Huang Qin) strongly inhibits cancer cell growth in the laboratory setting, especially cells present in head and neck cancers (forms of cancer typically resistent to multidrug chemotherapy)."
Now my question is what made this supplement so dangerous in less than one year. Chinese must have been using it for ages, and if one had head or neck cancer resistant to multi-chemo how could an herb be anything but worth taking a chance if it will possibly work?
Anybody got any suggestions?

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  • jhope
    jhope Member Posts: 58
    #2
    humming are you sure you don't work for dietary supplement company. I'll probably get flack for this post.............
  • hummingbyrd
    hummingbyrd Member Posts: 950 Member
    #3
    jhope said:

    humming are you sure you don't work for dietary supplement company. I'll probably get flack for this post.............

    No flack from me, and no I don't work for a dietary supplement company. I'm trying to work for our rights as patients, particularly those just diagnosed and too scared and confused to know what to do, and for the terminally ill who have no place else to look for hope.
    That's why I'm so outraged over this skullcap business. They finally do a clinical study, find something that works in patients that have nothing else that will work, and now they want to pull it off the market! I guess it all comes down to this...in the real world not everyone deserves the chance to live.

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