"Complementary medicines must be approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Those the TGA considers high risk - based on the toxicity of ingredients, dosage, potential side-effects and whether the medicine is intended to treat a serious disease - have to prove they are effective and back up their claims with research. Those considered low risk are tested only for their quality and safety."
Excerpt from: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/23/1163871541388.htm
What are complementary medicines? Quite seriously they are termed "medicines" in the loosest way possible, since they are medicines taken that have not in any scientific way been proven to have beneficial effect. The most they can do is encourage a placebo effect which is not a bad thing but misleading to the consumer. The majority of people have no skeptical training and therefore do not question arguments of authority.
Money making companies clearly have an agenda of their own, and that is to sell sell sell. Unknown to most is that justified complaints are made against complimentary medicine (and less often conventional medicine) advertisments time and again after which they are withdrawn from the media. Being in an add doesn't make it true.
And here comes the essential theme of this blog: Don't simply believe claims made by other people, even people in positions of authority, you must use your own brain to decide what is likely o be true.
Think Critically.
For more information on or a list of Alternative Medicine, please read the following page of the bible: http://skepdic.com/tialtmed.html
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