Some one else and i wrote:
 
>Have heard of too many ferrets doing fatal things like throwing clots
>after getting true licorice to take any herb's safety for granted.  Alicia
>recently mentioned that she has seen blood glucose levels drop after
>Essiac.  Herbal meds are like any other: the risks have to be weighed
>against any possible effectiveness.  Sadly, herbs and supplements aren't
>quality controlled and don't come with handy info inserts that discuss
>their down-points: uses that don't work as opposed the those that do,
>medical conditions that preclude use, medication interactions that be
>dangerous, etc.  It's really too bad because there are some useful ones
>out there, as well as some real crocks of "it".  If a person wants to
>use herbs then the responsible thing is to buy a good reference such as
>the _PDR for Herbal Medicine_ which gives all the good and bad known at
>publication and research each ingredient BEFOREHAND.
 
This part SHOULD have been a separate paragraph and used to illustrate
that "natural" does not mean safe:
 
>I have a book on poisons here; MOST (the vast majority) are naturally
>occurring poisons.  Don't forget that things like aconite, hellibore,
>belladona, arsenic, hemlock, assorted venoms, and thousands of other
>poisons are not human constructs; they exist in nature as a protections
>from grazers or predators, or weapons of plants and animals, or simply
>as bi-products of metabolism.
 
This logical and better written part was by someone else and actually
related to an earlier paragraph on CD vax so I don't know how it became
part of my last paragraph but I managed to accomplish that:
 
>I personally have seen a handful have reactions...I'd say around 5 out
>of the 500 + vaccines I've seen given.  Then from other shelters I've
>seen as well as just other ferret loving friends...probably again...the
>same 1 in 100 seem to have a reaction.  I've seen 1 ferret die from the
>vaccine.  But to this day...it's the only one I know of.  But can think
>of 100's which I have known to die of distemper itself.
[Posted in FML issue 3842]