Problems in the Herbal Medicine Industry

    Another break in my day, means some more quality time of me wriggling around the internet, and over the last couple of hours I think I have enough information to make you realize how broke the herbal medicine industry is. First of all, “Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the United States report taking an herbal product” (Bent 1), but that doesn't  mean that this herbal product was doing what it said it would. The FDA recognizes all herbal medicine as a dietary supplement. This means that they don't have to claim whether or not there product cures, mitigates or prevents illnesses (Bent 1). However, that is not the only problem in this rotten industry. In 2013, the New York Times released an article titled, "Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem." You could probably guess what the article is about, and you'd be right. Many herbal supplements were found of adulterating their product or even just replacing it with another herb. In other words, they are giving us tomatoes when we we asked for apples. One example used in the article is such, "Two bottles labeled as St. John’s wort, which studies have shown may treat mild depression, contained none of the medicinal herb. Instead, the pills in one bottle were made of nothing but rice, and another bottle contained only Alexandrian senna, an Egyptian yellow shrub that is a powerful laxative" (O'Connor 1). Do you not realize how crazy the second one is, a person thinks that they are curing their mild depression and all they get is poop, lots, and lots of poop. Nevertheless, my hands now are filled with poo now and I bet didn't you know that 1 in 5 adults in England can't swim in the year of 2013. 
     P.S. this is my favorite video of a dog running in circles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdrVotSLLA

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