--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > Despite the fact that MAPI claims they test for metals, at least two > products have lead in them according to the JAMA article Lead, > Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic > Medicines Sold via the Internet. Who knows how many other MAPI > products are similarly tainted? And these aren't even the product with > heavy metals listed as ingredients! > > The two products that were shown (in this sampling) to have lead > contamination were "Vital Lady" and (LOL) "Worry Free". > > http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/300/8/915.pdf >
I have not read the entire JAMA article; but I note what is written in the very first paragraph: "AYURVEDA IS A TRADITIONAL medical system used by a majority of India's 1.1 billion population.1 Ayurveda is also used worldwide by the South Asian diaspora and others.1 However, since 1978 more than 80 cases of lead poisoning associated with Ayurvedic medicine use have been reported worldwide. 2,3" Assuming a majority of 1.1 billion is the minimum -- 550 million -- and there have been 80 cases of lead poisoning in 30 years, that means that there have been less than 3 cases a year for less than 100s of millions of practitioners. Gosh, that's an incredibly LOW number (and not even fatalities!) that would be the envy of western pharmacology! Western medicine should aspire to such success!
