National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has warned citizens and residents of the danger of having some herbal products which are promoted through the media and social networking sites as a help for slimming due to lack of safety, and they contain some chemical drugs that can cause serious health complications.
Executive Director of the Centre, Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Bedah explained that the results of analysis of some of the products used for weight loss and slimming have shown that It contains many of drugs and chemical compounds in high concentrations which exceed the allowable limit therapeutically, in addition to some unauthorized medicines in some countries and some drugs such as anti-epileptic and some cancerous drugs which may cause serious diseases and severe complication such as hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, seizures, cancer and others, as well as it may interact with other medicines taken by the patient and increase its side effects, as well as the prohibition of using for pregnant, lactating and children less than 16 years, where a number of international scientific bodies proved that. Dr. Baddah said that: these medicines are not registered in the Saudi market, he warned at the same time citizens and residents of drifting behind the advertisements for those products via satellite or the World Wide Web and other means, pointing out that the center in a permanent and actively seek to educate the community and to warn of all What hurts people's health or exploitation of them by fake treatments for the purpose of trade and the search for quick profits without verifying the truth of what is promoted and health complications that may result from these herbal products or other illegal practices which attributed to alternative medicine.