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Vitamin & mineral supplements

 
Beware of exotic herbal concoctions and alleged cures!  

Food is always best natural treatment & miracle cure. This is an eternal truth. There is no herbal concoction or supplement in the world that can have more miraculous results than a carefully designed diet.

Herbs are often unknown to the person taking them, especially fashionable exotic herbs. Some of them have serious side effects. These herbs are usually sold for phenomenal prices just because they are exotic and no one really knows their actual benefits.

Compare that with foods which are available at supermarkets everywhere at reasonable prices and have absolutely no adverse side effects.

Beware of alleged miracle cures in faraway lands  

Everyone has heard stories about discoveries of a miraculous potion or an elixir in the Amazons or in the African jungles that cures a stubborn disease. Only to find out later that it was a hoax and a scam. The eternal undeniable truth remains:

Food is your best natural treatment & miracle cure

This truth was taught by great figures from Hippocrates, Oliver Wendel Holmes, Henry G. Bieler, George Ohsawa to Gandhi.

There is really no need to travel to an exotic faraway land for an alleged miracle cure. The miraculous cure is already in the kitchen.

Looking for a miracle cure, while maintaining the same living and eating habits that led to disease would be like someone who is:

Standing on a whale, fishing for minnows

When food is best treatment, are vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements really necessary?

 

No.

When following a carefully designed diet, especially if the diet is a treatment for a specific illness, there is no need to supplement the diet with vitamins or minerals. Vitamin and mineral supplements are not only unnecessary, but they are sometimes harmful. These supplements can have adverse unintended side effects.

Are there any side effects to vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements?

 

Yes.

There can be unintended side effects to vitamins and minerals.

For example, vitamin and mineral supplements that contain large quantities of vitamin C or Iron can have severe adverse effect on patients suffering from any infection such as diarrhea, Chlamydia & Candida, typhoid, arthritis or urinary tract infection.
Both vitamin C and iron are expansive YIN so they tend to facilitate germ growth which is also a YIN phenomenon.

Vitamin, mineral & herbal supplements toxic side effects

 

... Most of the vitamin supplements on the market are synthesized from coal tar and other petroleum derivatives. And while the synthetic substance may be chemically identical or closely related to the natural vitamins, they may have only a fraction of the biological activity. Synthetic vitamins may substitute for some, but not all, of the functions of their natural counterparts. Synthetics may also have additional effects beyond those vitamins found in foods. In fact, vitamin manufacturers warn us that large doses of supplemental vitamins A, B complex, C, D and E can harm the body ...

Michio Kushi, The macrobiotic way

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