Not a Single US Death Caused by Supplements, Herbs, or Vitamins

Poison Control Reports: Not a Single US Death Caused by Supplements, Herbs, or Vitamins

Poison Control can report no deaths from natural medicine's products. Nonetheless, there is a concerted attack on them. They're portrayed as dangerous, but this report demonstrates that it's an obvious lie. The bodies are lying at the feet of Big Pharma, not natural medicine.

by Heidi Stevenson

28 February 2011

The worldwide attack on natural healing is being perpetrated by the FDA and USDA in the United States. One of the primary claims is that the public is being protected from danger. Every now and then, a horror story is trotted out—though close inspection usually shows that the tale usually isn't quite as initially presented, very often because pharmaceutical drugs are involved, too. So, the question that needs to be asked is,"Where are the bodies?"

If herbs, vitamins, and supplements are so dangerous, where are the dead people? Certainly, there is nothing in the world that's one hundred percent safe. People die every year from drinking too much water, but we certainly don't consider controlling our access to it. So, where are the deaths from these products that we need to fear?

The answer is that they don't exist—and the proof is in Poison Control's reports of the last two years. Not a single death from a herb or a vitamin or a supplement was reported. Not one! Yet, we are being barraged with warnings about how dangerous they are.

Where are the bodies?

This report doesn't list all instances of harm from substances. It is, though, a good representation of relative risk, though it's not difficult to see how it may actually be skewed in favor of pharmaceuticals, since most people taking them are likely more inclined to rush to an emergency room than to call Poison Control, since they're generally told that's how to handle an adverse event. Nonetheless, the number of deaths that Poison Control reported for the most recent year available, 2009, showed 497 deaths from pharmaceutical drugs.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers' report utilized the data from 60 Poison Control Centers. They handled 2,479,355 human poison exposures of all sorts. Analgesics, all Big Pharma products, accounted for 11.7% of all poisonings, the largest percentage, followed by cosmetics/personal care products at 7.7%, household cleaners at 7.4%, and sedatives/hypnotics/antipsychotics, another Big Pharma group of products, at 5.8%.

The category Dietary Supplements/Herbals/Homeopathic/Amino Acids, which starts on page 1138 of the report, indicated a single death, but even that one can be discounted because it's listed as "Unknown Dietary Supplements or Homeopathic Agents". There wasn't a single death from any product in this category. Ma Huang, which has been treated as if it were Public Enemy Number One, caused no deaths. Echinacea, Valerian, St. John's Wort, entire classes of herbal types, such as Asian and Ayurvedic medicines, and many others resulted in no deaths, though the FDA is clearly on the attack against them.

Vitamins, which start on page 1146, provided the same results—not a single death. However, pharmaceuticals were the cause of 497 deaths, out of a total number of 718 from all causes of poisoning deaths. Pharmaceuticals were responsible for a whopping 69.2% of all poisoning deaths in the United States! That is stunning.

The bodies are lying at the feet of Big Pharma and Big Medicine. They are not in the realm of natural medicine.In terms of humanity, that's the bottom line.

Unfortunately, in terms of profits, the number of dead humans doesn't factor in, except as necessary in terms of payouts. Obviously, the price of a human being isn't enough to stop the Big Pharma juggernaut. The only thing that seems to matter is the amount of money that rolls into the medical system.

That's why there's such a concerted attack on natural healthcare:

• That's why the FDA conducts swat raids on raw milk farms, health food stores, and food buying coops.
• That's why Health Canada is doing swat raids on naturopaths.
• That's why the UK is on the verge of banning Calendula cream from shops.
• That's why Australia is planning to ban some of the finest ornamental plants—even the state flower!
• That's why Germany has banned virtually all medicinal herbs and vitamin potencies high enough to be worth taking.

Who Benefits?

It's obvious that there's a worldwide move to control and prevent access to natural medicines and foods. We're living in the midst of the greatest takeover ever seen in the world, that of Big Pharma over the people. People are reduced to part of a profits equation. What becomes of each human being doesn't factor in. Only the profits each one represents matters.

Big Pharma has nearly reached the end of its ability to create new drugs. Therefore, it has moved into new territories. That's why vaccines are so heavily promoted now. New technologies make them easy to develop. Testing to demonstrate that they work or that they're safe is not required. In the US, pharmaceutical companies have been protected from lawsuits no matter how much harm they do. And, finally, it's becoming more and more difficult to avoid being vaccinated. The public has been primed to receive, and pay for, any and all vaccines that Big Pharma manages to develop.

What else is there for Big Pharma to do, now that the era of blockbuster drugs seems to be waning? The answer is clear. They're planning to take over every aspect of the natural world that has been beneficial to our health. We are now being denied access to it. Big Pharma is madly developing products derived from nature, and in virtually every instance, those products are corrupted before being presented to us—though the corruption is generally described as purification for our safety.

When we can get real, untainted information, it consistently shows us that nature is best, that the results of using herbs, vitamins, supplements, food, and other natural methods for healing and maintaining health are consistently superior to modern medicine's drugs and treatments. People having been wising up, so access is being shut down.