Watch Those Ayurvedic Meds Sold on the Internet

We recently posted a piece about the apparent link between the level of arsenic in drinking water (including bottled water) and the development of type 2 diabetes. Now an August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association contains a report of the contents of Ayurvedic medications that is a bit disquieting.

Ayurvedic medicine is the oldest recognized system of Indian medicine, which is widely practiced on the Indian subcontinent, and increasingly in the USA. A group of Ayurvedic medications, called rasa shastra, combine herbs with metals, minerals, and gems. Boston scientists examined the metal content of Ayurvedic drugs obtained on the Internet, to see if toxic metals were present. They ordered and analyzed nearly 200 such drugs.

The amounts of metals found – lead, mercury, or arsenic - were similar in the Indian- and US-manufactured oral medications. The rasa shastra medications were more likely to contain high levels of metals than non-rasa shastra types, as expected; 40% had a problem, compared with 17%. The U.S.-manufactured rasa shastra drugs had no detectable mercury and had lower lead levels than Indian products.

Overall, about 20% of the Ayurvedic medicines purchased on the Internet contained levels of lead, mercury, or arsenic that exceeded regulatory limits, i.e. the ‘acceptable daily intake’ established by the World Health Organization. Caveat emptor!

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