There has been some discussion about the government being against the use of natural health products because regulatory authority are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies to help the drug makers continue profiteering from their products. However, logical thinking may indicate that the government's refusal to regulate natural health products is a silent way of giving them their support. For example, colon cleansing is a frequently used procedure for many individuals, yet natural products are not regulated. The Food and Drug Administration say they do not control these products due to their ingredients being classified as food while the chemicals used to create commercial products falls under their realm. 

Some people in the government believe that all products sold under the pretense of offering health benefits should be regulated, more to insure they function as advertised while others believe that natural health products should be left in the hands of the individual consumers. Natural health products they argue, can be grown in a person's backyard without interference from the government and people should maintain the right to choose how they meet their own health needs. Regulations covering over the counter sinus relief medication do not extend to a person's garden where natural health products can be legally grown. 

Back when people communicated by writing on the cave walls, plants and flowers were all they had and while many of the botanicals used for their natural health care were discovered by accident, their continued use should be testimony to their effectiveness. It was perhaps a stomachache and the relief of constipation that helped point to a particular plant as help for stomach problems that made someone in the cave next door more famous to their neighbors. Once a plant is found to benefit more than one person, it was then communicated to others. 

While the government has a stringent approval process before any synthetic drug can go on the market, there are no such rules governing natural health products. The dosage and frequency of the products' ingestion is based on referrals from others and there are some that view this lack of oversight as approval from the government. They believe that their reluctance to get involved in regulating the use of natural health products, even for menopause is the same as a stamp of approval by the regulating agencies. Many doctors who grew up knowing nothing but modern medicine may disagree, but the use of natural products for healing has been around a lot longer than any of the regulators. 

For consumers who have complete faith in natural products any attempt by the government to regulate the products may be seen as attempt to remove their lower cost, free of side effects option and will vigorously defend their rights to use them. They can grow their own botanicals to help them sleep when they suffer from occasional insomnia instead of risking becoming addicted to an over the counter sleep aid. They should consider the government's lack of voice about the use of natural products as quiet acceptance of their use.