Be careful to replace the brand name drugs or generic drugs

Although in theory the brand and generic drugs should be interchangeable, in reality there are some differences between products "brand" and equivalents that must be evaluated carefully, especially when the patients who use them are elderly. It 's true that the two types of medicines containing the same active ingredient, but you must take into account changes that occur in our bodies as we age. With the passage of time, change our functions, not only in the respiratory and cardiovascular, but especially from the point of view renal and hepatic. Consequently, as we age, so does your ability to assimilate and "dispose of" substances in drugs.

Renal function and liver 

In the elderly gradually increases the percentage of kidney failure, and he learned to be twice that of young people. An elderly patient was therefore less ability to eliminate through the kidneys, the substances in the medicines you take. The same phenomenon of deterioration happens to the liver, thus reducing the chances that a drug is metabolized in the right manner, thus increasing the risk of occurrence of side effects. One example is that of sleeping pills if an elderly patient takes a dose of sleeping pills equal to that consumed by young people, may be up to frenzy. 

Generic drugs, by law, can differ up to 20% with respect to the active substance in the medicinal product in relation to the original drug. A difference that could affect even very dangerous, especially in an elderly patient. As stated by Prof. Stefano Fumagalli, S.O.D. Cardiology and Geriatric Medicine: "By virtue of the aging process and more or less 20% cited the principle of bioequivalence we could be having the hazardous accumulation of active ingredient or paradoxically to have little concentration of the drug. The development of side effects in patients increases with increasing number of prescriptions, the elderly patient certainly has more diseases. Other important points are adherence and persistence to treatment, since often the drugs are not taken in the right way, the planned dose and time appropriate. An inappropriate use of medications may be responsible for the development of serious side effects, and death, as often happens to see in the emergency room. "

Turmeric Replace Function Chemotherapy

One of the herbs that we use as a mix for a variety of dishes, turmeric, is known to have efficacy as a cure various diseases such as diabetes mellitus, typhoid, appendicitis, dysentery, and whitish. Of the many properties for health, British researchers have found that turmeric can help manghancurkan cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy.

During this time, researchers from the University of Leicester often used curcumin, turmeric root extract, to overcome the resistant cells to chemotherapy by putting kolektoral tumor tissue.

"While the cancer treatment, many cancer cells are sometimes able to survive despite having chemo. That makes the cancer ca

How to treat pain in the traditional

 How to treat pain in the traditional
There are many kinds of complaints can be cured with traditional medicine. Excerpted from The Sun, the following benefits of some traditional medicines:

• Radish: Drug toothache. These vegetables have a substance called allyl isothiocyanate which    serves as an anesthetic when applied to the region of interest, including the teeth. Thus, the pain will be reduced
• Ginger: nausea medicine. The content of gingerol and shogaols that exist in ginger helps facilitate digestion and efficacious as nausea. Ginger is also precisely taken prior to travel far to prevent motion sickness. Alternatively, you can eat anything that contains extracts of ginger.

• Vinegar: athletes foot medicine. The disease is caused by a fungus that attacks the feet. Vinegar is believed to inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. By soaking the feet in vinegar and water for 15 minutes on a regular basis, can cure this disease. To prevent athlete's foot disease, keep moisture and warmth toes.

• Banana peel: Drug verrucas. Verrucas is a kind of hard skin, calluses, or warts that usually attacks on places on the body that are often under pressure. Banana peel has mucus is believed to be an antivirus. Attach pieces of banana peel to the part of calluses.

• Cabbage: joint pain medicine. These vegetables have vitamins, phytonutrients, anthocyanins, and glutamine are quite high. The content is useful as an anti-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory.
• Onions: Drug bruises. Despite the smell, put the crushed garlic with a little salt on a bruise will help the recovery. The content of quercetin in the onion acts as an anti-inflammatory. However, do not apply bruises that have open wounds. 

Traditional Herbal Medicines in the EU

When the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive was passed in 2004, many herbal producers, including those producing herbs for the great and ancient traditions of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, saw the Directive as a ‘godsend’.

Here was a piece of law that would give these herbal products a proper medicinal classification, meaning they could actually be used to help make sick people healthier. The food supplements regime, under which most of these products have been sold in Europe, of course doesn’t allow any claim to be made about the treatment or protection against disease. In fact, food supplements are intended only for healthy persons (so they say)!

We are now 6 years into the implementation of the Directive, and only there’s only a year before it’s all-important transition phase runs out.

The American Botanical Council approached the ANH with three questions, asking its views on this issue that is of great importance to natural health, especially in the European Union. But obviously it has a major impact on suppliers from all around the world, and given the way in which European regulatory models are viewed in other regions, the practical workability of the system is crucial if it’s going to be adopted elsewhere.

Here’s what we had to say in response to the questions (in bold text) from the American Botanical Council:

1) Is ANH continuing its campaign for the amendment of the EU’s THMPD? If so, on what grounds, and how has the European Commission been responding to such calls?

The ANH is dealing with the full scope of issues raised by the THMPD (EC Directive 2004/24/EC), as well as looking for ways of rectifying some of the Directive’s fundamental flaws. We are now only around a year away from the end of the transition phase of the Directive. After March 31, 2011, the Directive will be fully implemented and any products that are deemed by EU regulators as “traditional medicinal products” (THMPs) will not be allowed to be sold or marketed in the EU unless they have been successfully licensed under the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Registration Scheme. In essence, there are so many deficiencies in the scheme that, if you look at the two great traditions that were central to the development of the scheme in the first place, that of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the herbal products associated with Ayurveda, not a single product from either of these traditions has yet to be registered! Some will say this is because Indian and Chinese interests have not submitted applications, but there is a good reason for this. In the majority of cases, company’s have found it very difficult to provide the data required. The ANH has worked with a number who have been trying or are still trying.

In essence, it’s akin to trying to put a square peg in a round hole. The scheme is simply not built for complex polyherbal products and the requirement for proving 15 years EU usage out of a total of 30 years traditional use (the ‘30 year rule’), 6 months stability data and genotoxicity data put a huge barrier in the way of registration for many products and many companies. It’s not just a question of cost, which obviously impacts smaller companies much more than larger ones, it’s also that some of the requirements are simply very difficult to meet from a technical perspective, especially for complex herbal products typical of these traditions.

source : www.anh-europe.org