Re: Mixing your Herbs can kill you.

I agree that mixing some herbs and other natural items can be potentially dangerous and that people should educate themselves as best they can about the potential side effects and possible interactions with other herbs as well as with any mainstream medications.

I am not so sure how reliable the FDA would be for information though and I think it is worth noting that while you surely should check things out, in any given year virtually no deaths are reported due to herbs or supplements even when they are abused and/or improperly administered, whereas over 100,000 people die each year from mainstream drugs even when properly prescribed and administered.

When you take more than one mainstream drug (and millions take multiple mainstream prescribed and over the counter drugs), you essentially become a living (or perhaps dying) experiment because the combinations you are taking are very unlikely to have been studied for short or long term safety.