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Young Living also publishes their fairly rigorous testing processes. But it just doesn鈥檛 have the checks and balances to it that I鈥檇 like. It鈥檚 one of the predominant reasons I felt a bit hesitant to keep using their stuff.
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I wanted to see if there were any oilsbrands that weren鈥檛 鈥減oo-poo-ed鈥?by the traditional medicine posse. So when a nurse told me the hospital she worked at diffused peppermint oil for queasy patients, my interest was piqued! After a bit more probing Cheap Mitch Morse Jersey , I found that the doTERRA brand is actually usedbeing studied in a bunch of hospitals across the nation, including the Cleveland Clinic and Vanderbilt Medical Center among others. How鈥檚 that for a credibility?
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What makes an oil truly essential? It shouldn鈥檛 be filled w additives, fillers or synthetic stuff and it shouldn鈥檛 be grown with any nasty 鈥漜ides鈥?(pesticidesherbicides). Plus the harvesting, distilling, transporting, and storing are all critical.
Plant Potency:
Happy plants make good oils. Okay Cheap Chris Jones Jersey , that sounds silly, but honestly, if a plant is grown in the right soil, climate, and temperature, it reaches it鈥檚 highest potency levels. This is why I鈥檓 a big fan of how doTERRA grows its plants in their indigenous environment鈥攍ike lavender from France and frankincense from Somalia (both have grown in those respective locations for hundreds of years). If an oil company is sourcing from 33 countries instead of just a handful鈥攜ou know it cares about plant potency.
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Headlines are filled with different brand of medicines being counterfeited in many developing countries; Studies are bursting with statistics showing 1% of medicines in the United States are fraud while global production claims 30%. Reviews are flooded with negative reactions from netizens on how NGOs should have obliterated counterfeiting by now; World Health Organization (WHO) is busy jotting down methods to combat this illegal practice; Non-profit organizations such The Peterson Group Cheap Travis Kelce Jersey , and Anti-Counterfeiting Inc. receive complaints on their system and process of battling against drug counterfeit; Different government units such as that of Jakarta, Indonesia, Beijing and Shenzhen, China are scrutinized for loose security system. All of these issues have a sole reason for being: the existence of counterfeit medicines.
The struggle and concern against drug counterfeiting is as old as medicine itself, although not as rampant as it is today.
In as early as 400 BC there have been warnings of their presence as Dioscorides, a Greek physician Cheap Justin Houston Jersey , pharmacologist and botanist wrote in his ‘Materia Medica’ about the detection of counterfeit drugs. In the recent past, the unregulated proliferation of pharmaceutical industries and products has brought problems of extreme magnitude.
Concern regarding counterfeiting took a global scale after the establishment of WHO in 1948 but it was not addressed in an international sanction until 1985 in the Conference of Experts on the Rational Use of Drugs in Nairobi. The meeting suggests that WHO together with government units and NGOs should study the feasibility of setting up a study to conclusively know the real extent of the problem.
In 1988, the World Health Assembly requested the director-general of WHO to create a policy that would regulate the production, importation, exportation and distribution of medicines. The resolution also requested WHO to create alliance with UN secretary-general in case international provisions are violated.