Synthetic drugs.
These chemicals used in therapy are never totally pure, like 100.000% or more. In most pharmacopoeias, like the USP/NF, ChP, and BP, they all allow a small % of impurities (like 0.5% to 2.0%) to be present. I don’t think all these impurities are tested. Thus, if 1% LSD (100-200x stronger than psilocybin) is present in a dose of psilocybin, the psilocybin will have double its psychedelic effects. Does anyone know if all the research done over the past few decades on psilocybin had only used pure psilocybin (98% or 99% pure )? Likewise, if a non-psychedelic drug is used together with another much stronger-acting chemical (say, 200x stronger) present as an impurity, we would have some serious toxicity issues. Isn’t this all routine now? And we seldom know what we are using scientifically?
The reason I have brought this up is because synthetic chemicals are brand-new to our planet. They are made from toxic petroleum or other fossil fuels. Hence, they are inherently toxic, because no humans have interacted with them for more than 150 years, mostly for a couple of decades tops, via our ‘scientific testing’ in vitro, in vivo, etc. until clinical trials in humans, followed by approval for patient use. Only then, the non-scientific testing begins, which our ancestors used eons ago when developing our traditional medicines. It is a trial-and-error process typical of traditional medicines. ,
Traditional medicines or natural herbs.
These multichemical natural herbs carry no brand-new and inherently toxic synthetic chemicals. Whatever chemicals therein have been with us since time immemorial. No need to subject any of them, as we do with brand-new synthetic chemicals, to ‘scientific testing’ (in vitro, in vitro, in animals & humans through successful clinical trials) and then go through the same process of trial and error used by our ancient ancestors. Unlike synthetic drugs, natural medicines are already tried and true after thousands of years of use, no pregnant women taking them would give birth to deformed babies as with Thalidomide in less than a decade during the 1950s and 1960s.
Do you know of any drug that has no toxic side effects? I don’t. They appear over time surely and regularly, some right away while many others after decades, as with synthetic additives in foods and drinks. There are huge highly profitable businesses built around the VC of synthetic drug therapy (drug companies, insurers, auxiliary healthcare companies, advertising companies, crooked politicians, etc.)
The impurities present in natural chemicals have been there together with the herbs since ancient times when we started using them for our health. Unless we used some toxic new chemicals or solvents to extract them or produce them by biotechnology involving the same, giving us similarly unknown brand-new chemicals, traditional natural chemicals don’t have toxic impurities.
In my next post, I’ll discuss more about the damages synthetic chemicals (drugs & additives) have been doing to our health and environment.