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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board, as we know today, is supposed to register and regulate activities of medical practitioners but it is true that whereas Pharmacy and Poisons Board regulates the convention practitioners, there is no such equivalent to regulate the use of herbal medicine in Kenya. The lack of clear professional guidelines of herbal medicine may have contributed to the distorted information available on herbal medicine. This makes it difficult to do cost evaluation, document and compare contra-indications of herbal medicine. The question that is then asked is: From where can a consumer seek authoritative information on the efficiency and effectiveness of herbal medicine? If they do, who advises at what age alternative therapy should be administered? Do we not know that some herbal medicines have counter effects and can be harmful to the lives of human beings? This, therefore, means that we need a framework to regulate the use of herbal medicine so that we can know how much should be used. We also need a framework so that we can go ahead and do hygienic packaging so that the health of our people can be protected."
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