Am I the only one who finds conventional medicines terrifying?
October 6, 2010 by Herbals Medicines
Filed under conventional medicine
The commercials for them, are twice as scary.
Your taking a medicine to aide in the cure of a sickness or disease that gives you 5 other side effects, and some of these side effects are life threatening.
So why aren’t more people researching natural cures, and remedies for sickness?
There really is a LOT to be said for it.
I agree. I see commercials every day for asthma or arthritis medicines that “may cause the conditions to become worse” or “increase the risk of asthma related death.” Whats the point of taking a medicine that will make your conditions worse! Then there are others where they have to speed up the side effects until they’re nearly incomprehensible so they don’t go over the 30 second mark. I agree with you, go for the herb remedies…
Might help the 5 animals killed every second for medical research.
Nature is safe!
I don’t know if you’re the ONLY one, but I don’t agree with you.
Look at the statistics for the days when we only had natural cures and remedies for sickness.
For example, penicillin was only developed for general use after World War II. Before that, millions upon millions of people died from simple infections like pneumonia, childbirth fever, and stepping on a rusty nail.
Did you know that more soldiers died during the Civil War from dysentery (chronic diarrhea) than from injuries? It’s easily cured by penicillin these days.
You want to use natural cures and remedies? Now THAT’s terrifying.
Both engineered medicine and “natural” medicines have side effects–and for both, some of these effects can be “life-threatening.” Allergic reactions are common for both engineered and pharmaceutical drugs and drugs that affect the central nervous system especially act different in different people, sometimes having the opposite effect of what they are supposed have (but caffeine and other natural stimultants and depressants do the same thing).
Unlike natural remedies–some of which have a mere placebo effect (note that most illness in the US is stress-related and “somatizing”– that means, “it’s all in your head” and then it ultimately affects your body)–pharmaceutical medicines must be tested for years and years in very large groups of people and methodically analyzed before they are able to be marketed and sold. Anything that can possibly be considered a side effect–even if it occurred in 1 person in 10,000 during studies of the drug, must be reported in commercials, ads, and such. That is why these commercials seem scary.
Pharma companies also are trying to manipulate how drugs are prescribed by thinking that if they advertise directly to potential patients, the patients will run to their doctors, report symptoms and ask for a drug they saw advertised. Some people do this. Others go to the opposite extreme and assume that pharmaceuticals are part of a big dangerous conspiracy so they do not take prescribed medicines or get vaccines, which potentially and eventually will result in serious disease epidemics like what was seen in past centuries when medicine was rather primitive.