Se parece que no hay drogas no toxicas.  Estas causan enfermedades nuevas que necesitan mas nuevas drogas para tratar.  Estas a su vez causan mas enfermedades  en un ciclo vicioso.  Este es malo para el publico general, sino muy rentable para la industria farmacéutica.  Ademas, es sensible al tiempo.  En 20 o 30 anos, se iran las alternativas naturales.  Lo que quedaran para Uds serán las drogas toxicas del ciclo vicioso.  Hay mucha gente en America que hablan o leen español.  Por favor, reenvien este mensaje a sus amigos, sean jóvenes o viejos, para diseminar la palabra.  Es para la salud futura de Uds!   Con cariño!  Alberto    

Essential facts and premises for understanding the DISRUPTIVE CONCEPT

These have been discussed in my previous eight posts.  This 9^th post is a summary of them as well as on what has been discussed in my recent books, Newsletter, LinkedIn, my blog (www.ayslcorp.com/blog), and elsewhere.  Here they are:

• Drugs are pure chemicals whose identity and quality can be guaranteed by analytical methods well established specifically for chemicals. 

• Herbs are multichemical entities like foods.  The existing scientific technologies are not appropriate for testing them, unless you assume one or more of these chemicals to fully represent the traditional properties and actions of these herbs/foods.  In that case, we may as well consider caffeine to be coffee and ignore other also-important chemicals like chlorogenic acid (an antioxidant), among many others also present.  Because we have been using the wrong assumptions on coffee and other herbs/foods, and unknowingly applying the wrong sciences in evaluating them, much of the published ‘scientific’ data on herbs is wrong or irrelevant, and hence useless for evaluating the efficacy and safety of the traditional medicines concerned.  For this main reason, I did not revise the 3^rd edition of my “Leung’s Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics” published by Wiley in 2010.

• Our body is extremely complex.  Each cell contains myriad chemicals that function independently, and in concert, as well as in communication with other cells in different parts of our body to become an extremely complex, organized, and well-functioning multicellular organism with a mind and memory of its own.  When a brand-new synthetic chemical drug enters our body, it has to try to get to whatever targeted receptor, chemical, or cell that we assume causes us the problem, hoping it would neutralize this target, and make us well again.   It has to get there with no divine guidance, just our hope for it not to bump into too many of these other billions of living chemicals and cells in its path to cause havoc, hence side effects.  It seems the ‘science’ of drug therapy is nothing but letting the drug go through the trial-and-error process as traditional natural medicine had gone through eons ago.  And there doesn’t seem to be any shortcuts in human testing either, but to wait to see what actually would happen, decades, centuries, or even millennia from now.  That’s why time-tested herbs and formulas, by inference, should be safer than synthetics, and are as effective in countering the cause of any illness, should any particular modern drugs happen to also do that, besides plugging symptoms.

• During my decades of involvement in ‘scientific’ research and manufacture of herbal products, I finally realized around 16 years ago that a modern drug can be prepared by the most advanced scientific technologies in the world, but once it enters our complex body, it’s nothing but trial and error in a world of organized chaos.  This is no different than what happened at the beginning of traditional herbal medicine when our ancestors started using herbs, thousands or countless years ago. 

With the above information, we are now ready to deal with the following two main issues: 

1. Interrupt the vicious cycle of toxic drugs and introduce/reintroduce the neglected natural therapeutics that have been with us since our human species began on this earth, as alternatives or replacements for modern toxic drugs.
2. How to start doing the above.

In my next post, the 10th, I’ll address the modernization of herbal supplements and their reintroduction into commerce along with new natural chemical drugs, also called dietary supplements.   Then in my final 11^th post, the process of setting up nonprofit and for-minimal-profit organizations will be considered geared at trying to afford such products as a competition and alternative to modern drugs, stressing their safety, identity, and quality.

Alberto Leung

El cicle vicioso

Les agradezco por ser en mis conexiones de LinkedIn y por visitar mi blog.  Espero que les gusten mis publicaciones.  Estoy planeando interrumpir el cicle vicioso de drogas toxicas que hemos creado para nuestros nietos y los suyos en el futuro.  Quiero introducir medicinas naturales seguras que son modernizadas científicamente por ciencia apropiada para complementar o sustituir las drogas toxicas sintéticas.  Ellas van a ser disponibles con prueba de identidad y calidad como huellas dactilares significativos.  Nos van a permitir una mejor salud natural. Visiten los posts en mi blog sobre “A Disruptive Concept in Drug Therapy.”  Por favor, ayúdenme diseminar la palabra entre sus amigos y colegas de habla española.  Gracias!  Deseandoles lo mejor de la salud natural!   AYL

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Some ‘herbal’ supplements are not herbal. What should we do?

First of all, I want to run a thought by my pharmaceutical scientist colleagues and friends.   We have tried for 80 plus years now in search of cures, have we found any signs of any synthetic drug that doesn’t simultaneously cause major damage, some of which turn into new diseases that end up in our vicious cycle?  This cycle affords its owners perpetual income with impunity, but toxic drugs to you, me, and the rest of our society with their attendant miseries, such as side effects and new diseases.  Do you think that’s ethical, fair, or humane?  And these drugs will also affect your grandchildren and theirs.  Isn’t it time we reset our thinking in this extremely costly ‘scientific’ pursue of our drug-therapy, at least for the benefit of our future generations?  A lot of traditional natural remedies do work and can complement or even replace synthetic drugs to serve all humans at affordable costs.  After 50 years as a home-grown herbalist and also as a scientist, I can attest to that!

You may have the feeling that many herbal supplements are not what they claim to be.  You are right. 

Many of them are not, for 2 main reasons:  (1) We, as scientists, don’t seem to know how to deal with them scientifically, using technologies developed for well-identified pure chemical drugs, trying to apply them to complex multi-chemical herbs that are in most instances not different from foods. (2) As herbalists, many of us who have no scientific training are easily bamboozled by anyone with a science degree into going along with determining the identity and quality of an herb by one of its countless chemicals, and call this chemical ‘marker’ of identity and quality for the herb or formula; and declare that this is scientific.  Then, we standardize the finished herbal product (supplement or medicine) against this chemical and call the product “herbal supplement.”  This invites adulteration!  I personally have been a victim of it.  Which is one of the reasons I had fought this single-handedly for decades, especially after the DSHEA was passed in 1994.  See one of my descriptions of this “standardization” in Issue 10 (Sept/Oct 1997) of my Newsletter republished in My Life & Rollercoaster Career (p. 263).  Then, in the following decades, I have written many more times about it.  Although this standardization thing has gotten less egregious over the last 10 to 15 years, it still happens, and more than you think.   Hence, some herbal supplements are still not what they claim to be.   What should we do?

Before reintroducing some tried-and-true herbal remedies, passed down from generation to generation over millennia or time immemorial, we need to first start fixing the identity and quality of the existing herbal supplements.  Since these products are not like drugs that can easily be analyzed, some other scientific methods must be used.  Instead of using drug techniques specifically developed for chemicals, which are unsuitable for complex herbs, we should start treating herbal supplements more as foods, which was the original intent of the DSHEA, either by design or by chance.    For example, ascorbic acid is no orange or lemon.  So, the best we can do now with herbal supplements is to provide some ‘fingerprint’ that can tell us what they look like compared to others.  With this fingerprint, identifying the tablets, capsules, or powders, in a bottle of ‘herbal supplements’ is roughly comparable to our identifying oranges or apples by organoleptic means.  That is, not by any of their chemicals such as ascorbic acid or pectin, but by sight, touch, taste, smell, etc., which we used to use for judging raw herbs until chemistry started to be involved, analyzing only arbitrarily selected marker chemicals.

      For doing this, we already have the basic technology to make fingerprints. The best is through HPTLC, HPLC, IR, and UV, as we have been doing with our Phyto-True system since around 2005.  One of the labs has already volunteered its efforts at cost.  And I am planning to use 75% of the gross profits of my books to establish a nonprofit, to be run by younger people not from my generation, though a few of us will initially provide the appropriate technologies, experience, and wisdom to help get it started.

In the next post, I’ll describe my plans for starting the introduction of modernized natural therapeutics to complement or replace synthetic drugs.  So, until then, all the best!