Re: Natural anti-depressants
The big reason is because under US patent laws, you cannot patent organic material. Patents = money. No patents = no money. Since there is no money in it for pharmaceutical companies, there's no interest in devoting time and money to experimenting on herbs, animal tissue, vitamins, minerals, etc. to find out exactly what they do and don't do. So the FDA doesn't really care what you stick in the herb or supplement bottles (with some notable DEA-Scheduled exceptions) as long as you make no absolute claims on what the substance may or may not do.
I can't find the study (hooray for anti-SOPA blackouts), but a few years ago a consumer study was conducted on echinacea (which is becoming harder & harder to grow and harvest) supplements. It found that a large portion of what was being sold commercially as echinacea was actually ragweed.
Originally posted by B. de Corbin
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I can't find the study (hooray for anti-SOPA blackouts), but a few years ago a consumer study was conducted on echinacea (which is becoming harder & harder to grow and harvest) supplements. It found that a large portion of what was being sold commercially as echinacea was actually ragweed.
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