Show 1346: The Roots of the Herbal Industry

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Until 1994, when Congress passed legislation on dietary supplements, most people using herbal medicine made it themselves or got it from a friend or family member with a green thumb. Before that time, most stores selling herbs in tinctures, capsules and tea bags were small, and so were the companies supplying them. Now, though, the […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Until the late 20th century,
0:17.0	pharmacists and physicians valued herbal medicines.
0:20.0	What happened to this tradition?
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. After the Second World War, conventional medicine embraced synthetic pharmaceuticals and dismissed botanical medicines.
0:41.0	But the public wasn't ready to discard the healing
0:45.3	traditions of herbalism.
0:47.0	herbs have become big business. Walk into any Whole Foods market, grocery store, or pharmacy,
0:53.8	and you'll find a vast array of herbal products.
0:57.1	We'll trace the evolution of this business
0:59.1	from a tiny corner store in Sebastopol, California,
1:02.3	to the giant global marketplace of the 21st century.
1:05.3	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, Health Headlines, people who can't handle statins have a new alternative to lower their cholesterol.
1:22.0	A large study of Bmpidoeic acid published in April
1:26.4	showed that this cholesterol lowering drug can reduce heart attacks among people with established
1:31.6	cardiovascular disease.
1:33.0	A new analysis of more than 4,000 of the study volunteers who were at very high risk for heart disease
1:40.0	but did not yet have it shows that maimedoeic acid can reduce deaths and heart attacks for them.
1:47.0	Follow-up over nearly 40 months revealed that 5.3% of those on the drug experienced a heart attack, stroke, coronary revascularization, or death from
1:57.5	cardiovascular causes. Among those on placebo, that figure was 7.6%, yielding a relative risk reduction of 30%.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe and Terry Graedon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe and Terry Graedon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.