Death of congressman's wife linked to 'white mulberry leaf ingestion' - coroner

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A coroner’s report shows that Lori McClintock, the wife of the California Republican congressman Tom McClintock, died from dehydration due to gastroenteritis caused by “adverse effects of white mulberry leaf ingestion”, it was reported on Wednesday.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) said McClintock’s death, ruled an accident by the Sacramento County coroner, illuminates the risks surrounding the booming yet under-regulated, $54bn dietary supplement and herbal remedies business.

White mulberry leaf is typically associated with addressing obesity, diabetes and hypertension.

In 2018, a study in Pharmaceutical Biology concluded that mulberry leaves “could be a promising therapeutic option” but that “further investigations should be performed to substantiate the potential of mulberry leaves in practical uses”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/death-of-congressman-s-wife-linked-to-white-mulberry-leaf-ingestion-coroner/ar-AA115F3K

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Sounds like something Dr. Oz would be hawking.

I *am* sorry about the death of Lori McClintock.

[Scottie Mom]

5. Dr. Oz was my first though. EOM

[RockRaven]

2. Add one more to the body count of the DHSEA. Thanks Orrin Hatch! Yeah deregulation!

What would go wrong?

[halfulglas]

3. Yeah. They set up their own organizations to give them their own

Seal of approval. You see that on all that crap. "Certified" by this and that. No proof of quantification of the herb or supplement is even safe. But oh look, it's certified by this organization. Vitamins! Minerals! Tea!

[Retrograde]

4. While many herbal treatments are harmless

with supplements and similar OTC preparations you often have no idea what you're taking and in what quantities. A cup of tea made from actual mulberry leaves may contain a minimal amount of the active ingredient and do no harm; a capsule containing concentrated extract likely contains a much higher dosage, but there's no law requiring the supplements provider to say how much (as far as I know)

I few years ago I had major surgery. As part of the prep, I had a sheet from the anesthesiologist listing foods and drugs to avoid for about two weeks prior to the surgery. It included quite a few of the herbs and spices I cook with: when I talked with her nurse-practitioner, he explained that what they wanted people to avoid was taking capsules of garlic and ginger - the two I remember - since they were so much more concentrated that the raw cloves or roots and that there was often no way to know just how much of the active ingredients they contained (which were fine in normal culinary amounts)