Terahertz

On Boxing Day (Dec. 26th), 2006, a trucker hit a snowbank, rolled his truck and died (he wasn’t wearing his sealtbelt).  It turns out that the driver had been taking a herbal sleep aid that had been pulled from shelves in Canada weeks earlier, but he managed to acquire it from an acupuncture shop which kept selling the drug “natural health product” for several more months.

The “remedy” contained a dangerous drug which wasn’t labelled on the bottle.

Herbs can be just as dangerous as pharmaceutical drugs.  There’s been enough outright lying on behalf of these swindlers and pushers.

Luckily the article finishes with an update about what Health Canada has in store (unfortunately not until 2010):

As a result, all natural health products in Canada will be licensed by 2010.

According to Health Canada, businesses will have to submit detailed information in order to obtain a licence, including a list of medicinal ingredients, source, potency, non-medicinal ingredients and recommended use.

After approval, the product will bear an eight-digit product licence number preceded by the letters NPN or, for homeopathic medicines, DIN-HM. The system is similar to the current licensing system, which uses a drug identification number, or DIN.

The presence of a DIN, NPN or DIN-HM means the product has been authorized for sale in Canada and is safe and effective when used in accordance with the instructions on the label.

My only question is which homeopathic medicines are effective?