Herbalists putting patients in danger

 

Now here come these herbalists enticing poor unsuspecting patients to buy therapies that are untested and untried. It is “foolish talk” instead to claim that no such trials are necessary because the products only contain natural ingredients. It is not the ingredients we are querying, gentlemen, but the claims of cures. What you are doing is encouraging patients to come off their traditional medi-cines to use your alternative therapies. This is dangerous. I challenge you to give evidence of a cure for cancer as you so boldly claim. And when I ask for evidence I require scientific evidence, not the “testimony” of some poor old woman who doesn’t know any better. I certainly wouldn’t take the word of Trevor Sayers who has a shingle at his outlet in San Fernando proclaiming to be a doctor of neuropathy. There is no such degree. I think he meant to call himself a doctor of naturopathy but if he can’t even spell the modality can you trust him to cure your ailment? I sincerely hope the Minister of Health, the Medical Board and the erstwhile senator continue to press for the regulation of these people and their spurious claims and protect the unsuspecting public.