Big drug companies constantly introduce unproven medicine with several serious side-effects to the market. Just watching TV for one commercial break is evidence enough.
Almost every break there is at least one ad for some new "medicine" that helps depression, but could make you aggressive, more depressed or even suicidal. Asthma "medicine" that can give you head aches, sinus problems and even fungal infections. Insomnia "medication" that can cause addiction, depression and possibly death, if used ALONE.
There is one thread in common between all these medications, profit.
Huge multi-national corporations make millions a year off all these drugs they introduce to the public. How is medicine beneficial if the laundry list of side-effects include DEATH? Is that not counter productive to the entire purpose of having medicine?
Granted, there are several medications that have been proven to be beneficial, such as anti-biotics, but they too have side-effects and are often ineffective from overuse and resistance. Cough medicines and asprin-type medications do often help with aches and pains but destroy liver tissue after prolonged use.
So why, with all these negative aspects of "modern medicine," do we reduce homeopathic and natural medicine to quackery? Many of the techniques have been around for thousands of years in cultural practice while "modern medicine" has only been around a few hundred.
Using "science" to cloak risky medicines has been the selling point for big pharmaceuticals. They try to discredit natural medications and time honored traditions through ad campaigns and lack of "scientific research" but fail to fairly disclose that their own medications are rarely proven to actually be beneficial. Almost HALF are still unknown to be beneficial or harmful.
Peppermint tea could be just as good as Pepto Bismol, vitamin-c as good as cough syrup, exercise, nutrition and rest as good as Zoloft. You'll never know if you simply believe the ads though.
So before you go to fill your next prescription hastily written out by an overloaded doctor, click through the links here, ask a an expert, just decide for yourself whether those side-effects are worth it.
