Remedies on the internet?!
Question:
Remedies on the internet?
what does homoeopathic mean and they say there remedies have no side effects what do you say our they safe ?? ( ANDROVIN AND SAW PALMETTO )
thank you.
Answers:
Homoepathic medicines use a small dose of something that causes symptoms to try to build up an immunity - I remember some old-timers around me that swore by eating a small poison ivy leaf every spring, it kept them from getting poison ivy. Did this work? Not always, as I recall (lol)!
So androvin and saw palmetto aren't really homoepathic remedies, they are "natural remidies" or "herbal medicines".
Now to the "do they work"? I'm not going to say yes or no, just that if they did, don't you think the medical companies would have long ago made them medications so they would make money off of them?
These products are sold as supplements. What's the difference between a medicine and a supplement? To be sold as a medicine, the producers have to provide scientific evidence (through research) that the product does what it claims (without serious side effects). To be sold as a supplement, you just put it on the market if you can show it doesn't produce serious side effects - if someone claims it doesn't work, or that it has serious side effects, the person(s) taking the product have to provide the evidence that it doesn't work (or produces side effects) to sue the company. See the difference? This is also why they have to put the disclaimer "*These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA." on the bottles - they haven't had to prove they will do what they claim. Medicines are usually more uniform in their ingredients and concentrations as well.
There are several products that have both medicinal and supplemental forms - take aspirin, for instance. "Aspirin" is a medicine that is a synthetic form of salicylic acid - this can be found in its natural form as willow bark (a supplement). Both can be equally effective.
As far as the products you mention, the effectiveness of saw palmetto varies depending on the reason you're using it - see this link:
Saw Palmetto: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugi...
I wasn't able to find any scientific research on Androvin, other than that by the company that makes it (and they're trying to sell a product, so I'd conside info by them suspect - it would be better for research to be done by and independent source!)