--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > Debbi > > who has used and recommended various supplements & > > herbals, but checks out available research > beforehand > > (many herbals frex have been well-studied in many > > European countries, so even if not FDA-approved, I > can feel confident that at least they won't do harm; > some studies of herbals including Chinese plants are > > beginning or are soon-to-begin here as well) > > My sister did a lot of research on this at one > point, and told me that > for best results, look for supplements/herbals made > in Germany, as they > had the best quality control of everyone, at least > at that time. (This > was sometime in the 1997-1999 timeframe.)
That would fit well with the generalization that German research on herbals has well-designed studies, with good controls (at least from what I read and observed). Debbi who, having tried tea sweetened with leaves from a friend's _stevia_ plant, intends to get one herself, and use it for her own tea (a lot of research on _stevia_ is from Japan, where it has been a commercially available sweetener for over 20 years, and might have benefits in hypertension) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10971305&dopt=Abstract __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
