Cala Huala

Can anyone help please - where can I go to check facts about new 'wonder cures'?

I have been told this Peruvian herbal combination called Cala Huala can help with aches and pains etc Sounds too good to be true...... but how do I check it out?

Thanks in advance.

[Clutter]

MKHL,

Try Googling "Cala Huala Scholarly Articles".

[rogerblack]

You may find this paper (and podcast) published in the british medical journal interesting.

bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7346 Televised medical talk shows—what they recommend and the evidence to support their recommendations: a prospective observational study

"Roughly a third of the recommendations on The Dr Oz Show and half of the recommendations on The Doctors were based on believable or somewhat believable evidence. Evidence was believable or somewhat believable against a recommendation for 1 in 8-10 recommendations. For slightly over 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 of the recommendations for The Dr Oz Show and The Doctors respectively, no evidence could be found. This is despite us being quite liberal in the type and amount of evidence we required. "

This is probably slightly better quality than your average health supplement story, which tends to be based on little or nothing.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed - is the place to find actual scientific research into supplements - though the quality of this research is variable.

For example, I found a sleep remedy claiming that valarian root was effective.

Entering 'valarian sleep' into pubmed finds: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/270... - "A review of randomized controlled studies over the past 12 years suggests commonly used OTC sleep-aid agents, especially diphenhydamine and valerian, lack robust clinical evidence supporting efficacy and safety."

In short - if someone is advocating that something works (and indeed it may have worked for them) and especially if they're trying to sell it, be extraordinarily wary.

[Gez_Blair]

Best source I could find

researchgate.net/publicatio...

Quick summary - more research is needed

[piglette]

The trouble with these wonder cures is that they have not had to go through the rigorous trials required for the pharmaceutical industry drugs. If they really were that wonderful we would probably all be taking them. I am sure a lot of supplements have an effect but the wonder properties may be somewhat exagerated.

[Zeno in reply to piglette]

Indeed. In the UK (and the rest of the EU), food supplements are not permitted by law to make medicinal claims. There are some health and nutrition claims that are authorised, but the decision as to whether any claim is a medicinal claim is up to the MHRA. If the MHRA decide it's a medicine, then it requires a full Marketing Authorisation (requiring the trials that piglette points out) before the product can be sold. MA requires safety information as well as efficacy data.

Frequently with 'wonder cures' the benefits are over-hyped and side effects downplayed or never even mentioned. If they really were wonder cures, your GP will know about them and would be able to advise. If he/she doesn't, treat wonder cures with extreme suspicion and caution and assume the seller is simply trying to make money.

[Neurologicalady]

Pink salt is supposed to have minerals.

That's the only difference.

With all of this we need support. You need to cycle treatments. To break down cystic forms. With the level of infection out there that's the problem. Re infection there does not seem away out of it.

The Big Tick Project run by Bristol university shows the ture level of Tick in the U.K.

I don't think it's totally accurate. To have Wales and London and the south East as low level.

When London parks are known to be infected.

The open spaces in the South east and the woods.

Jeuvinal Tick can't be seen.

So they don't get counted.

I need a neurologist but the Pub Health England even though I have found since 2010 Oct. said Lyme was a statutory notifiable illness Labs both Private and NHS

Were supposed to tell them.

only this does not happen.

NHS doctors have their own views.

So the numbers remain low.

2 to 3000.

John caudwell says there are 45,000 per year.

However one Tick can produce 20,000 eggs.

While we argue about treatment there is more people getting infected.

The UK government is telling us about mental health that all these people have mental health.

It will cost the NHS more treating mental health than Lyme which is the true disease.

The government have created a monster.

By which to control us.

It's like trying to fight your way out of a paper bag.

The government and the psychiatrists are in control.