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USE CAUTION and COMMON SENSE: You may be impacting your body in some unknown way, particularly when using herbal, therapeutic or folk remedies. Some substances contain powerful 'naturally' occurring chemicals that can interfere with a medical assessment if you eventually need it. For instance, Physicians evaluate your symptoms in reaching a diagnosis. If your symptoms have altered due to a substance you have ingested or inhaled, diagnosis of your medical condition may be less likely. Ingesting or inhaling a substance may produce an effect, BUT this effect may have NO RELATIONSHIP to your medical condition.
The difficulty is that the effects or interactions of preparations of these substances may be unknown, not evaluated objectively or scientifically inconclusive. The same may be true for scientifically evaluated pharmaceuticals. However, substances legally classified as drugs have known potential risks/side-effects which have been measured and defined by known science as acceptable, given the measured-expected benefits of those products.
It makes sense to have a general understanding of the process behind the science of modern cures and therapies. Some medical advice you get may be less current than it could be. However, in some instances your physician may determine that the most current information is not yet sufficiently demonstrated over time to be better than what he/she recommends for you right now.
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