Do pharmaceutical grade herbs, extracts, and other holistic healing supplements exist?
May 31st, 2010 | by admin |I had a free initial consultation with a Christian holistic Healing Doctor with multiple college degrees. He claims that he can heal me but he wants to charge me $50 per session. He says that I also have to purchase the supplements, herbs, and extracts from him because they are of a Pharmaceutical grade and those Pharmaceutical grade Supplements, Extracts, and herbs are not sold to the general public. According to him they are only sold to people with his qualifications and training. He also said that I cannot just go to a health food store and buy whatever they recommend or books recommend for my illnesses because everyone has their own body chemistry and what resonates with one person may not help the next person. He says that I have to do sessions with him so that he can test me and see what Supplements, herbs, and extracts resonate with my body chemistry and that his pharmaceutical grade of products are much more pure and concentrated than what I can obtain on my own. Has anyone else had any experience with this? Is there such a thing as pharmaceutical grade Supplements etc.? My Father advised not to waste my money that he has never heard of such a thing. What do you think?
Technically there is no such thing as pharmaceutical grade herbs or extracts. However it sort of depends on the definition. If you go to your local pharmacy most if not all of the supplements and herbs and things that are in pill form are made by companies that make "pure" products and they will have testing done and they will have chemists and chemical engineers working to make sure all the tablets are pure, have the right about of whatever they are making, and are safe. That is basically what pharmaceutical grade is. He might get tablets and things that are more concentrated but that is all they might be, more concentrated. So taking the stuff from a store but taking two instead of one would work out as the same thing.
Everyone certainly does have different body chemistry but everything you said sounds like a complete scam. He is basically saying that you have to pay to see him, pay for the extracts he provides (probably the same as any other) and he says that a bunch of sessions for testing is needed. Just think about that. You will end up spending hundred and hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars.
Listen you your father, this is all just profit and things don’t work like that in any normal type of medicine.
Good luck
4 Responses to “Do pharmaceutical grade herbs, extracts, and other holistic healing supplements exist?”
By Jeff on May 31, 2010 | Reply
To be honest this sounds like a scam. First of all the premise of a christian curandero is preposterous it is a direct conflict of ideology. Secondly while you can get pharmaceutical grade extracts, potent and easy to swallow westernized pills and such that contain the alkaloids of the plants you want to use you loose the spirituality when you do this. Try looking up the herbs yourself finding what fits your need, it will take days or weeks of research for you to find something you are looking for. Maybe if you posted what the ailment was it would be easier for me to point you to what plants to use. And here is the tipping point, if it is a plant that is unscheduled then it means that any extract of it even in a pill form or pure chemical form more than likely the resulting extract is legal to possess so he’s just looking for even more money and is going to give you some vitamins he has in his storage cabinet. I would say listen to your father on this one. It sounds like pure trickery.
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By Tink on May 31, 2010 | Reply
That guy is full of crap.
I have a few graduate degrees (from a major state university, not some po-dunk hollow online school) and I used to do research in a hospital using "pharmaceutical grade" supplements – - and guess what? you can buy them in nearly any health food store….
It was the placebos we used that are freaking next to impossible for anyone to get….
Listen to Dad…
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By Mathieu on May 31, 2010 | Reply
Technically there is no such thing as pharmaceutical grade herbs or extracts. However it sort of depends on the definition. If you go to your local pharmacy most if not all of the supplements and herbs and things that are in pill form are made by companies that make "pure" products and they will have testing done and they will have chemists and chemical engineers working to make sure all the tablets are pure, have the right about of whatever they are making, and are safe. That is basically what pharmaceutical grade is. He might get tablets and things that are more concentrated but that is all they might be, more concentrated. So taking the stuff from a store but taking two instead of one would work out as the same thing.
Everyone certainly does have different body chemistry but everything you said sounds like a complete scam. He is basically saying that you have to pay to see him, pay for the extracts he provides (probably the same as any other) and he says that a bunch of sessions for testing is needed. Just think about that. You will end up spending hundred and hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars.
Listen you your father, this is all just profit and things don’t work like that in any normal type of medicine.
Good luck
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I am a medical student with a specialist degree (Hons. BSc) in Pharmacology with a focus on psychopharmacology. I have interned under two psychiatrists and one neurologist. In addition I have worked as a pharmacy assistant.
By Rosemarie on May 31, 2010 | Reply
I know that we do have natural supplements that can make a difference with our health. I myself was struck with RA in 2000 and had chronic pain for over 3 1/2 years and without drugs of any kind, I was able to rid myself of chronic pain and get out of my medichair and work in my yard again. You can read my story at http://www.squidoo.com/rosemariefransen
This supplement has helped thousands of other sufferers, perhaps it will help you as well.
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personal experience