There is currently sufficient potential to be informed about the risks of using supposedly "natural" herbal and other non regulated products, particullary from overseas countries without much regulation or concern for safety. Furthermore, trials of some such substances have not shown most of them to be effective. That is for the proposed claims of health or in curing conditions. For a few herbal items that have potential to acieve a result towards one's claimed, there is insufficient information on the dosage, strength and dangers they pose to the rest of the bodily system, much less any of any possible contaminants .There is no need to use such things, except for people indulging in wishful, unrealistic mystical fixes. In the end I believe the only legislation and warning that ought to exist is that it's illegal to administer such items to children or any one with diminished competancy in a persons care. After that, those so full of hubris and persistant in their fallacy ought to get what they seek and deserve. If they want to indulge in costly masochism or even eventual death, the're getting what they deserve. Such aren't any real loss to society. Those who buy and use such things aren't the illiterate or lacking in IQ, just common sense while high in personal vanity and warped ideologies.
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brigitte 1:26AM April 13, 2012